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United States : Kansas

8.3 miles (13.4 km) SW of Jetmore, Hodgeman, KS, USA
Approx. altitude: 760 m (2493 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap topo aerial ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 38°S 80°E

Accuracy: 3 m (9 ft)
Quality: good

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

#2: View to the north #3: View to the east #4: View to the south #5: View to the west #6: Ground cover #7: All zeroes #8: Largest hand-dug well in the world in Greensburg, KS

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  38°N 100°W (visit #4)  

#1: View ENE toward the confluence in the foreground, rising sun in the background

(visited by Gavin Roy)

21-Apr-2023 -- I've always wanted to watch a sunrise from a confluence, and today I did. I camped exactly on the 100°W meridian in Buckner Valley Park outside of Jetmore, Kansas the night before, and I awoke to a brightening sky around 6am CDT. After packing up my tent I drove the 6.3 miles to a spot just 100 feet NE of the point, parking at 6:50am, zeroing out a minute later, and enjoying a 6:55am confluence sunrise.

The confluence lies in fallow pastureland, and while I heard cows mooing in the distance I did not see any here. The only other sign of life was a robust little school bus that followed me down the dusty road most of the way from my campsite. It was 33°F and calm – a most beautiful morning.

I ducked back under the unmarked barbed wire held fast with a stake and a vertical chunk of fencepost limestone (gotta love Western Kansas!) and was back to my rental car by 7:00am, ready to head to Mullinville for breakfast (my first ever chicken-fried steak), Greensburg for the Big Well Museum (with much information about the 2007 EF-5 tornado that leveled the town), and then on to the Kansas-Oklahoma border to nab 37N 99W and 37N 98W.


 All pictures
#1: View ENE toward the confluence in the foreground, rising sun in the background
#2: View to the north
#3: View to the east
#4: View to the south
#5: View to the west
#6: Ground cover
#7: All zeroes
#8: Largest hand-dug well in the world in Greensburg, KS
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