Talk:Tri-state area

[edit] Rationale for double listings?

I haven't examined the list thoroughly for more duplications, but I see listings here for both

with no discernable reason for why both permutations found their way into the list. Any ideas? Tom e r ^talk 02:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

The article is now fixed up. Anyone have PD pictures of tri-state markers? Nationalparks 18:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

There are a couple of problems with this "Tri-state area":

First, there are two tripoints between these regions. A northern one near Little Falls on the Potomac and a southern point just south of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge. The list only counts it as a single tripoint.
Second, these points are (usually) under water. Virginia ends at the low water mark on its side of the Potomac River so these should be considered water tripoints, not points on land.
Third, D.C. is not a state. Should these points be in an article called "Tri-state area" at all?

--dm ^(talk) 04:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

First, agree entirely, I put another note in.
Second, the reference lists these under the land points (as opposed to the water ones), so that's why I've put it there.
Third, I agree, but at the start of the article it says three states or holdings meet at one point. So that and the reference are why I put it there.

Nationalparks 06:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)