Talk:Cumberland Gap
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It is requested that a map or maps be included in this article to improve its quality. Wikipedians in Appalachia may be able to help! |
March 13, 2006
The "Geological Features" section covers the crater details well but needs some work. For example this section:
"The 12-mile long Cumberland Gap consists of four geologic features: (1) the Yellow Creek valley, (2) the natural gap in the Cumberland Mountain ridge, (3) the eroded gap in the Pine Mountain and (4) the 3-mile diameter impact crater in which Middlesboro, Kentucky is located."
The Gap is not twelve miles long. The passage across the mountains from the Gap to the Cumberland River ford at Pineville is about 12 miles.
The Cumberland Gap is a geologic feature unto itself, a gap in Cumberland Mountain that is perhaps a mile long but maybe much shorter depending on how you measure such things. The features of the passage are the Gap in Cumberland Mountain, the impact crater, a part of the Yellow Creek valley, a low pass over the Log Mountains, the gap in Pine Mountain and the Cumberland River.
Much of what is known as the Yellow Creek valley is contained within the impact crater. Yellow Creek flows to the Cumberland River but even the earliest travelers, including Dr. Thomas Walker, left Yellow Creek and cross directly north over the Log Mountains to the gap at Pineville.
Gap Cave should probably be mentioned somewhere. I can add that in the future.
The Gap is just EAST of the Tri-State Marker but that might be subject to interpretation.
Obviously I have a great deal of interest in Cumberland Gap and want the article to be as close as possible to being correct.
Mike Crockett
[edit] Map
As critical as the Cumberland Gap was to the history of American migration west, a map is really necessary that shows the Gap and its relation to passage through the mountains.--Parkwells 18:06, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- Good suggestion. I inserted a map that was already here, but at a thumbnail scale... The article needs more text in order to accommodate all of the images. --Orlady 18:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
