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Post by missionary on Feb 28, 2024 6:41:35 GMT -7
Every time I look at the shape of Idaho I wonder why ? On the east side why the lower wide dimension was not roughly continued all the way north.
Where the border takes the near due west line it could have been made a due north line again long before the next northern direction which is generally NW always.
But, it is what it is and sure looks like the path a herd of antelope or beavers decided was appropriate.
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Post by Bullshop on Feb 28, 2024 8:22:01 GMT -7
Its the mountains. Much of the northern border follows the continental divide. Our local border area between Idaho and Montana is rugged roadless mountains. Anywhere there are roads that cross the divide you can literally stand at the top of the divide and pee into the Columbia river if facing west or into the Missouri river if facing east. That is what the continental divide is it divides the water sheds between the two great rivers, the Missouri to the east and the Snake/Columbia to the west.
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Post by missionary on Feb 28, 2024 9:43:33 GMT -7
So Idaho has the distinction of being divided by a mountain range's irregular meandering through the area.
Now I wonder why they were not consistent and follow the continental divide all the way down ?
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Post by Bullshop on Feb 28, 2024 10:06:21 GMT -7
All the way down ? The continental divide divides the north American continent from Mexico through Canada. All the way down to Panama ?
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Post by missionary on Feb 28, 2024 11:06:25 GMT -7
OK... I just looked at a map of the Continental Divide. No other state boundary is decided by the continental Divide.
Consider Arizona and New Mexico. Even where Wyoming and Utah are sectioned.
I can understand the idea. But why did it applied to one state division making Montana huge and northern Idaho so small...
Maybe I have a plague of wondering to much...
I know nothing will ever change the boundary but why it was done so... What a mystery...
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Post by Bullshop on Feb 28, 2024 13:59:10 GMT -7
Northern Idaho in the pan handle has some awfully nice timbered country .And lake Pandoria has the distinction of having its own sub species of rainbow trout the Kamloops and they get very large in that big clear water lake. I don't know why it gets the pinch between Wa. and Mt. right there but that is just the way it is. Maybe it was added by a mistake and Mt. and Wa. were supposed to border each other there at the pan handle but the surveys were off so they said aw heck lets just add it to Idaho ?
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Post by grasshopper on Feb 28, 2024 14:30:21 GMT -7
From my limited reading skills and a memory that would never pass a polygraph I always thought that territory’s had to have a set population, certain number of inhabitants is what I mean. Once this number was reached they could vote on whether or not the residents wanted the benefits that came with statehood. Some of those benefits included a state militia and Forts inhabited by federal troops. I think the boundaries were drawn up after it was decided to be a state. I’m also about 99% positive that a lot of these boundaries were decided by extremely wealthy and powerful men that had something to gain. That’s my best recollection of how it came to be anyway. If I’m mistaken or just completely wrong please feel free to respectably set me straight. 😁
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Post by missionary on Feb 28, 2024 14:45:54 GMT -7
Well I would not doubt $$$ and power had the most to do with most political decisions everywhere...
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Post by Bullshop on Feb 28, 2024 17:22:30 GMT -7
Well I would not doubt $$$ and power had the most to do with most political decisions everywhere... That is just a fact of life. |
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Post by todddoyka on Feb 29, 2024 7:18:30 GMT -7
noooo, not politics. everybody knows that politicians ain't rich....obscenely rich, yes, but rich, no.
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Post by Bullshop on Feb 29, 2024 8:47:09 GMT -7
I am rich I just have no money.
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Post by grasshopper on Feb 29, 2024 19:48:53 GMT -7
The older I become the more I understand that “rich” is only a state of mind. I know without doubt I’m wealthy but not in the traditional sense some people might imagine. I have a home that’s paid for, a wife I’ll be married too next month for 34 years, two happy, healthy, successful professional children, a new granddaughter and more than enough to eat each day, more toys than I deserve and the peace of knowing after this life ends I’ll spend eternity with our creator. Rich? No, wealthy with lots of blessings to be thankful for? You bet!!!
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