Arkansas v. Tennessee, 399 U.S. 219 (1970)
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90 S.Ct. 2222
26 L.Ed.2d 537
ARKANSAS
v.
TENNESSEE.
No. 33, Original.
Supreme Court of the United States
June 23, 1970
DECREE
1
This Court on February 25, 1970, 397 U.S. 88, 91, 90 S.Ct. 784, 25 L.Ed.2d 73,
76, having entered a decree and appointed a Boundary Commissioner to survey
the boundary between Arkansas and Tennessee and pursuant to that decree the
said Commissioner having filed a 'Report on Commission to Survey' in which
he sets forth the General Location and Specific Location of such boundary to
which the parties have approved and consented,
It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed That such boundary shall be fixed as
follows:
GENERAL LOCATION
3
The state boundary line involved herein in located between Crittenden County,
Arkansas, and Shelby County, Tennessee, in an area formerly known as Cow
Island Bend, and more recently called Scanlan Chute, Frog Chute, Ike Chute or
Lake, and 96 Chute; and is generally within a rectangle between latitudes
3500' and 3503', and longitudes 9015' and 9019', and is more particularly
described as follows:
SPECIFIC LOCATION
4
Beginning at a point, designated as Station No. 1, which point is, 634' E, at
1,359.0 feet from, Mississippi River Commission Permanent Bench Mark
'Scanlan,' whose coordinates are, latitude 3502' plus 1,555.76 feet, and
longitude 9015' plus 1,014.42 feet. (Reference for PBM 'Scanlan,' see page
118 of Permanent Marks, Volume One of Mississippi River Commission.)
5
Said above beginning point being on a line running, 7539' E, 3,500.0 feet
more or less from, the present Steamboat Channel (thalweg) of the Mississippi
River; thence N 7539', W, 645.8 feet to point; thence N 7554' W, 2,112.0 feet
to a point; thence N 1718' W, 920.4 feet to a point; thence N 3525' W, 436.3
feet to a point; thence N 6236' W, 491.3 feet to a point, designated as Station
No. 2; thence 8553' W, 2,161.6 feet to a point; thence 8200' W, 1,443.3
feet to a point; thence N 8738' W, 2,739.7 feet to a point; thence 7935' W,
1,808.5 feet to a point; thence 3847' W, 1,033.1 feet to a point; thence
2452' W, 811.0 feet to a point; thence 738' W, 2,085.5 feet to a point; thence
1129' W, 1,725.2 feet to a point, designated as Station No. 3; thence 2331'
W, 3,098.3 feet to a point; thence 051' E, 1,370.5 feet to a point; thence
1315' E, 1,258.1 feet to a point, designated as Station No. 4; thence 3845'
W, 814.5 feet to a point; thence 2355' W, 864.1 feet to a point; thence
1230' W, 644.4 feet to a point; thence 630' W, 1,270.5 feet to a point, which
point is, 8152' E (Mag.), 2,736.5 feet from, United States Engineer Arkansas
Levee Bench Mark for Mile Post 170/171; thence 1740' E, 1,627.0 feet to a
point; thence 650' E, 1,485.0 feet to a point; thence 2210' E, 2,500.0 feet
more or less, to the present Steamboat Channel (thalweg) of the Mississippi.
The above surveyed boundary line between the States of Arkansas and
Tennessee in the area involved is shown by a broken line marked on the
attached 1965 aerial photograph of said area, which aerial photograph is also
designated Appendix A-I to this Court's decree of February 25, 1970.*
Supreme Court Reporter's Note: The aerial photograph is not reproduced here,
since it has been published in connection with the Court's previous decree. See
397 U.S. 91 (immediately following 92) [90 S.Ct. 784 (on page 786)].
