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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Bizarre Geography
Message-ID: <1443@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 23:30:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 23:30:28 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 00:47:32 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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While we're on the subject of bizarre places, Ohio has some dillies.
Everybody dig out your Rand McNally road atlas (you know, the one
you buy for $4 at K Mart) and open it up to the Northern Ohio pages.

Let's see now, at NG 13 (on lake Erie, half way between Toledo and
Cleveland, for you cheaters with brand X maps) we have Sandusky.
(Home of the famous Cedar Point tourist trap your radio is bombarding
you with ads for.) Now, at NK 10 (on route 23 south of Findlay, about
50 miles and three counties away) we have Upper Sandusky.  And of course
don't miss Sandusky County at NG 10, which does not include either of
these cities.

Moving right along, we have Lima at NL 5 (on I75 south of Findlay.)
Not to be confused with North Lima, which is clear on the other side
of the state at NJ 25 (on I76 south of Youngstown.)  It is, fortunately,
a few miles north of Lima, but it's also 200 miles east.

Now, the notion that North X should be north of X is of course completely
foreign to Ohio.  But that's nothing.  Violation of the "Unique Name within
subdivison" principle we've is not original on UUCP.  Ohio's been doing
it for years.  If you look up Fredericktown in the index in the back, you'll
see it at NN 14, south of Mansfield but north of Mount Vernon.  Now, if
you move all the way east to NL 25, just north of East Liverpool (of course,
there is no Liverpool to be east of), you'll see, what's this, Fredericktown!
Hmm.  Must make life at the post office interesting.

Now check out NQ 13, just northeast of Columbus on route 62.  You'll see
a small town called New Albany.  I've been there, it really exists and
there is at least one resident who is on the net (although their phone
company expanded their office by driving a truck up to the building and
putting phone switch in it.)  Now follow route 62 to the northeast,
past Canton (home of the NFL hall of fame for some bizarre reason)
and Alliance and Salem, but not quite to Youngstown, at NJ 24 (that
explains it, New Jersey somehow caused all this!)  There's another
New Albany.  I've driven through this one too, it's just an intersection
with a general store and a race track.  But I've always wondered what
happens to mail addressed to "Route 62, New Albany, Ohio".