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From: "Russell Guy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:38:19 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Maps-L Re: Fwd: West of Sundown
There are a lot of these "west of" and "east of" in the USGS 24k
series; I found 32 in Arizona alone.
Sadly, none of them have that wonderful connotation of the dark,
exotic unknown that "West of Sundown" suggests.
Cheers
Russell Guy
At 09:41 AM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
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>From: "Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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
>
>--
>\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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