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North Carolina/South Carolina border redrawn

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Dee Martin may wake up on Jan. 1 and find herself in a whole different state.

South Carolina and North Carolina have redrawn the border between the two states with GPS technology that allows them to confirm the boundary lines established more than 200 years ago down to the centimeter. But that means the lines drawn decades ago through less exact surveying measures are several hundred feet off.

So Martin and 15 other South Carolina families are now in North Carolina. Three families will end up changing to South Carolina addresses.

Martin says it will cost her more money from her fixed income in higher North Carolina taxes.

Lawmakers in both states are considering measures to allow families to keep children in the same schools and to keep their current utilities.
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http://www.wyff4.com/news/Border-redraw-leaves-19-homes-in-different-state/39780286

These modern problems can be traced all the way back to 1735 when the king of England sent surveyors to what was then his colonies to draw a boundary between the Carolinas with explicit instructions.

The surveyors used poles and measured chains, determining what direction to head from the sun and stars, doing math in their heads, and putting hatchet blows on trees to mark the boundary. Over time, those trees disappeared and future surveyors might not get the line in the exact place.

The states agreed 20 years ago to redraw the 335-mile North Carolina-South Carolina border from the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. To alter the border in any way from those 1735 instructions would require an act of Congress.
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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/sto...border-redraw-moves-homes-carolinas/85184736/

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/reports/B&CB/SC_NCBoundaryReportFY13-14Proviso101.18.pdf
 
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This has happened in several other places in the country as GPS technology allows lines to be much more accurately defined.

Right now the State of Georgia is resurveying its borders, hoping to move a few hundred feet north in order to tap a reservoir that now completely lies within Tennessee.

The Mason-Dixon Line (boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland/West Virginia) was defined in 1767. It was recently checked with GPS, and it was not off by more than 1 1/4 inches at any point along its 233 mile length. That's a heck of a surveying job considering they used 18th. Century technology!
 
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FreddyE1977 said:
The Mason-Dixon Line (boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland/West Virginia) was defined in 1767. It was recently checked with GPS, and it was not off by more than 1 1/4 inches at any point along its 233 mile length. That's a heck of a surveying job considering they used 18th. Century technology!
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Wow. I knew they were good, I didn't realise how good until now.

(which gives me a flimsy excuse for a blatant plug for one of my all time favourite songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE )
 
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