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United States : Kansas

6.1 miles (9.8 km) W of Elkhart, Morton, KS, USA
Approx. altitude: 1115 m (3658 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap topo aerial ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 37°S 78°E

Accuracy: 3 m (9 ft)
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#2: Tri-point marker #3: Tri-point monument #4: View to the north from the confluence #5: View to the east from the confluence #6: View to the south from the confluence #7: Ground cover #8: All zeroes #9: Success! #10: Looking southwest at Walter's truck on our walk back

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  37°N 102°W (visit #3)  

#1: View to the south, confluence in the foreground

(visited by Gavin Roy and Walter Hannah)

27-Apr-2024 -- After a night of hammock camping at Cimarron River Campground (amazed we found trees!) we packed up and headed southwest through Elkhart and over to the tripoint of Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. We lingered for 15 minutes at the commemorative structure and marker in the road. We then backtracked two miles eastward, parking southwest of the confluence in a pull-off meant to service oil and gas equipment.

It was 9:14am and 55°F when we set out on foot northward along a farm road and then clockwise around a fallow irrigation circle. No fences. At the confluence, which lies in the scrub just beyond the circle, we took the pictures and stood in silence for a minute, the only sounds the dull thrumming of an oil well somewhere and the distant mooing of cows to the east. An inspiring morning. We were back at Walter’s truck at 9:54pm. Onward to the next border confluence due east.


 All pictures
#1: View to the south, confluence in the foreground
#2: Tri-point marker
#3: Tri-point monument
#4: View to the north from the confluence
#5: View to the east from the confluence
#6: View to the south from the confluence
#7: Ground cover
#8: All zeroes
#9: Success!
#10: Looking southwest at Walter's truck on our walk back
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