Posted December 21, 200618 yr 1. Take your google earth to Sun City, Arizona. 2. Let it finish zooming in 3. Zoom out to an eye altitude of about 20,000 feet. 4. Pan north a little bit Spoiler In Small font radially symmetrical suburbs... weird
December 21, 200618 yr It is quite interesting...but what scared me was the thing up the road from here. If you travel NW along the diagonal road that goes through Sun City you will come upon this triangular looking landscape on the northern side of the road....what the heck is that?!?!?!
December 21, 200618 yr Looks like a strip mine if I'm looking at the right spot. AZ has lots of them.
December 21, 200618 yr Wikimapia says it's a WWII-era landing strip. Still, triangles in that setting are a bit unusual.
December 21, 200618 yr It is quite interesting...but what scared me was the thing up the road from here. If you travel NW along the diagonal road that goes through Sun City you will come upon this triangular looking landscape on the northern side of the road....what the heck is that?!?!?! UFO landing strip?
December 21, 200618 yr Interesting to see that so many of the section squares are sudivided into half-mile or quarter-mile blocks. I'm sure that this improves traffic flow considerably over areas where the sections were occupied by seperate farms which sold out at different times. Compare these squares to the section squares in West Chester -- the perfectly surveyed squares of Arizona versus the sloppily surveyed section lines of the Cincinnati area, the second area in the entire United States to be subdivided into township sections.
December 25, 200618 yr Here is the link for those of you who are lazy ;) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sun+city,+arizona&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=33.617371,-112.284715&spn=0.016064,0.028989&t=k&om=1
Create an account or sign in to comment