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  1. martink

    Joseph Wharton Water Supply Proposal Map - 1891

    Thanks for sharing. I’ve studied the blown-up version in the Batsto Visitor’s Center. I know a couple of spots where a road would pass by one of these lakes and occasionally look over to imagine what the lake would look like.
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    Atsion River?

    I'm sure someone with more knowledge than I will chime in, but it's my understanding that the upper reaches of the Mullica was named Atsion in the early days. If you take the Toms' Pond trail west out of Batsto you'll climb over the berms of the old lake. A popular side trail takes you to the...
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    Fire In Atco

    From Rt 73 at 6:18. It seemed quite dramatic. Good to know what is was.
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    Stafford Township and Bass River on 1949 topo

    There’s a plaque at the fire fire memorial at Bass River, by the old CCC camp. Could it be this?
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    Batsto church bridge

    I think the last time I was there was summer.
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    Retirement Has Arrived

    Congratulations!
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    One Source of the Mullica

    Nice write up. I pass that area frequently but haven’t explored. It always bothers me going south on 73 when I pass the sign telling motorists they are entering the Great Egg Harbor River watershed. I always yell out “This is the Mullica!”
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    Old Foundry Water Tower Ruins??

    Don't know anything about that place but my mom grew up in Palmerton, Pa., home of giant zinc factories and it was truly bizarre to visit when I was a kid. The mountainside was completely barren, just red dirt, and nothing grew in the town. People would be thrilled if they could get a small...
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    Driving Question

    The don’t-block-the-box squares are pretty coming in urban spaces, where the lack of a turning space can cause completely unnecessary gridlock. I guess there seen this problem at that intersection.
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    Weird pine barrens images from new Photoshop AI feature

    The Ai bots ripped off a lot of the text to my semi-niche publication. A couple of times bloggers have asked ChatGPT questions and said it sounded liked warmed-over articles we would publish and I’m like “well, yeah.” Glad that NJPinebarrens seems to be off the map! I’ll be looking for headless...
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    Soggy Ground: A Geography of Pine Barrens Wetlands — Saturday, April 20, 2024.

    That sounds absolutely fabulous. I think I saw the book at Lines but didn't know you had a real name lol. Probably can't make it to Pemberton but I'll definitely order the book.
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    4.8 earthquake. I felt it.

    Sorry, I forgot to add that: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/shakemap/intensity . It's what they're calling the "Shake Map." I clicked on "contours" and clicked through to the full map. I can't quite tell the source of the data. I don't think it's just user reports...
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    4.8 earthquake. I felt it.

    I'm fascinated by the contour "shake map" map. The Williamstown bubble, the bulb coming up from Cape May, that weird prong coming down toward Sea Isle. It really surprises me that the reports I'm seeing don't correspond more to distance. Data point: none of my family in Hammonton felt it. Also...
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    Police search state forest for woman reported missing from Atlantic County

    Oh wow, I too went by Batsto on Sunday and wondered why there were so many state police cars by the Mullica River Landing. It’s odd that the article doesn’t say when she went missing.
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    What is this? Located next to Steven's Creek, in the back of the John Estell House remains in Estellville, NJ.

    In construction it resembles the old pump house at the head of Hammonton Lake, which was overgrown but still had equipment inside 20 years ago (it’s all been taken down now).
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    Fixed a bug in the new USGS topo's

    Oh wow, yes I am interested, thanks. I'll need to add that to my favorites. The dark purple just seem to be what we civilians would call watersheds or drainage basins. The light purple seem to be mini-drainage basins. My backyard looks complicated and I know from living here that there are...
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    Fixed a bug in the new USGS topo's

    Totally tangential to your post (though I appreciate your perfectionism), but in that view you can really see how many rivers start in and around Buena. They go off in all directions to completely different watersheds. Berlin has a similar feature. Thanks for compiling so many different maps—I...
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    Early 1900's NJ Pine Barrens Boundary Map

    No worries, I saw that a few minutes after commenting. Good stuff.
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    Early 1900's NJ Pine Barrens Boundary Map

    Cool to see. I'm surprised that the tidal areas of the Mullica and Great Egg Harbor Rivers aren't included south/east of Batsto and Mays Landing respectively. I can't imagine they were very industrial but they are a different ecosystem so I guess the mapmaker decided they weren't piney enough...
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