Delaware's State Boundaries
| Author(s) | Schenck, W.S. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2009-08-24T13:51:46Z | |
| Date Available | 2009-08-24T13:51:46Z | |
| Publication Date | 1989-06 | |
| Abstract | One hundred seventy-nine monuments help to mark Delaware's boundaries with Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Although there are only four major boundaries, there are seven boundary lines that make up the confines of the State. They are the east-west boundary, or Transpeninsular Line; the north-south boundary, or the Tangent Line, Arc, and North lines; the Delaware-Pennsylvania boundary, including the Top of the Wedge Line and the 12-mile Circle; and the Delaware-New Jersey boundary including the 1934 Mean Low Water Line and the Delaware Bay Line. Only the Transpeninsular, Tangent, Arc, North, 12-mile Circle, and 1934 Mean Low Water lines are monumented. The Delaware Bay Line is defined by the navigational channel. The boundaries described here evolved through long, complex histories (see references). They are based largely on adjudication in England of conflicting claims by the Penns and the Calverts for the Pennsylvania and Maryland colonies. | en |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/4287 | |
| Language | en_US | en |
| Publisher | Newark, DE: Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware | en |
| Part of Series | Information;6 | |
| Title | Delaware's State Boundaries | en |
| Type | Other | en |