Composite Yellow!

I was looking at interesting blogs, and I happened along this fact today. The 4 Corner’s monument in Colorado, is 2.5 miles off, of where is is suppoed to be.

The problem was in the initial survey of done on the location. It was inaccurate.

Naturally, with today’s technology, we can be much more precise, and it turns out the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles west of where it should be. The actual location is east of U.S. 160 in Colorado and northeast of the San Juan River as it flows into New Mexico.

Look at it this way: if touching the four corners was a life’s goal, you have that goal back again.

Myself, I’ve not been that far west. But I thought it was kind of interesting.

The Four Corners is a region of the United States consisting of southwest Colorado, northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona and southeast Utah.[1] The name comes from the Four Corners Monument, located where the four states touch — the only location in the United States that is on the boundaries of four states. The majority of the Four Corners region is part of semi-autonomous indigenous nations. Two of these are the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation which have a boundary at the Four Corners Monument[2] in addition to the four states. The Navajo Nation includes three of the four state corners; the Ute Mountain Reservation only has the Colorado corner. The most populous city and economic capital of the region is Farmington, New Mexico.

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