Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: eBay Land

Friday, June 19, 2009

[papercreters] Re: eBay Land

I too love google earth and google maps and I have explored some very interesing and remote corners of the globe and visited all my friend's and family's houses. Then I realized our local county has an online GIS with much better satelite images of my land.
So check the county website there maybe undiscovered resources there you can use to learn more about the lot you are bidding on.
kat

> I agree. That google earth is addicting to a geography/geology nut like
> myself! I've spent entire evenings just "cruising" around the earth,
> pretending I was a bird or something flying around....
>
> :)
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, spaceman01of99 <
> Spaceman@...> wrote:
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> > A good way to check out the terrain is to use google earth, and tilt up
> > some to see the terrain in 3D view. A friend of mine was looking at a
> > similar plot in the same area a couple of months back and did that. He found
> > that the property was an arroyo with a railroad trestle crossing the
> > northern end. The property is parched dry 10 months of the year and flooded
> > the other two. The seller claimed whitewater rafting but that would only be
> > immediately after a thunderstorm.
> >
> > That is definitely desert, and isolated. Wells would need to be many
> > hundreds of feet deep and then might give you brackish water that would have
> > to be purified before use.
> >
> > There are a couple of companies that are selling many plots in the area,
> > and the good news is that even if someone buys next to you there is a good
> > chance that they will never do anything with the property. So, you might be
> > all by yourself with nobody anywhere near. "Big" towns in the area include
> > Presidio and Terlingua. Presidio had a population of around 4,000 about ten
> > years ago. Terlingua is a entry point for whitewater rafting in Santa Elena
> > Canyon in the spring.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio,_Texas
> > http://www.historic-terlingua.com/
> >
> > If you want to be all alone in the middle of nowhere with very low humidity
> > most of the time, lots of heat in the summer, and the only shade being under
> > a rattlesnake's belly, this could be perfect for you.
> >
> > Spaceman
> >
> > --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com <papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Laura <lauranfriends@> wrote:
> > >
> > > LOL
> > > Good for you,
> > > being an ex-californian for 20years now living in Texas...
> > > but... the reason some things are so cheap
> > > cause the natives out here aka redneck cowboys do know a thing or two.
> > >
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