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From: "Kenneth A. Mr. Grabach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:05:13 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: RE: West of Sundown

In Arizona, New Mexico, and some other large states with desert areas there are several quadrangles with West of ..., or East of ... names.  A student who was working with me to get our quadrangles listed in the catalog found these to be quite amusing.  We began imagining an area so devoid of identifiable places and features that there might be a West of west of ..., or East of east of ... quadrangle.  We never did find such.  Seems to me that the Board of Geographic Names has loads of opportunity to choose their own place and feature names.

West of Sundown is wonderful, though.  Wonder if there is an East of Sunrise quadrangle out there?  We do have in this area of Ohio a Morning Sun, and Indiana on the Ohio River has a Rising Sun, but both are smaller than the major place named on the relevant quadrangles.

Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA


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From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:41 AM
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Subject: Fwd: West of Sundown

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From: "Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:38:06 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: West of Sundown

Hi, Jim -

That's usually the notation when you'd have a quadrangle named Sundown
but on the quadrangle to the west of Sundown, there's no identifiable
place information to use for a quadrangle name.  So, it becomes West of
Sundown.  There have been a couple of these (not necessarily Sundown),
including, if I recall correctly, one 15' quad that I came across when I
worked at LC.  But, please don't ask me where it was located!

HTH.

v

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