Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi & A Sand Volcano - New Madrid Bend

Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi & A Sand Volcano - New Madrid Bend - Neck of Kentucky or Bubbleland

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The Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi River, also the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, Bubbleland, or the Neck of Kentucky is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. It is a portion of a peninsula defined by an oxbow loop meander of the Mississippi River. It is part of the state of Kentucky because the law establishing the boundary of Kentucky included all the land east of the Mississippi River above a certain latitude. At the time, they did not realize this loop would overlap that latitude. Only about 15 people live in this area. One of those people saw the original unedited version of this video and recognized their dog. The peninsula only has about 17.5 square miles of land. It is even mentioned in Mark Twain's book "Life on the Mississippi". Twain described the six-decade-long feud between the Darnell and Watson families and other elements of life in the bend. The area is also the site of what are called "Sand Volcanoes" or "Sand Blows" or "Sand Boils". These are areas where subterranean forces cause sand to shoot up to the surface. I show some examples of this in the video.
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The New Madrid (locals pronounce it MAD-rid) earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 had a big effect on this area. Shawnee leader Tecumseh predicted an earthquake while he was in Alabama in 1811 trying to get other Indians to join him in his opposition to US encroachment of Indian lands. When the Alabama area Indians said they did not want to participate, Tecumseh made a prediction. “You do not believe the Great Spirit has sent me. You shall note. I will go straight to Detroit. When I arrive there, I will stamp my foot on the ground and shake down every house in this village.” As the story goes, he arrived in Detroit in December 1811. The first of three massive earthquakes struck this area on December 16, 1811. The two other biggest quakes hit on January 23 and February 7, 1812. The shaking was felt all over the east coast and the Mississippi River valley. It changed the course of the river, too. Nearby Reelfoot Lake (25,000 acres) was created by the uplifts and ruptures from the quake. Over 2,000 quakes were felt were recorded over a short period of time after the original big ones. There are still around 200 measurable quakes in the area each year, although, most cannot be felt.-
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2. KET PBS 1812 Earthquake story - www.ket.org/program/kentucky-...
3. Life On The Mississippi by Twain six-decade-long feud between the Darnell and Watson families - www.gutenberg.org/files/8476/...
4. Bubbleland - web.archive.org/web/201704261...
5. www.kentuckytourism.com/the-f...
6. www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentu...
7. spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvil...
8. bigthink.com/strange-maps/178...
9. NM Seismic Zone - dnr.mo.gov/land-geology/hazar...
10. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mad...
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12. New Madrid quakes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2...
13. press.uchicago.edu/books/exce...
14. Prof Lecture New Madrid - ualr.edu/tv/2014/03/19/eartht...
15. genealogytrails.com/main/event...
16. missouriencyclopedia.org/even...
17. www.kqed.org/science/13500/th...
18. www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/...
19. List of newspaper reports of quakes - history.hanover.edu/texts/181...
20. www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
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@AdventuresBeginHere409 Жыл бұрын

I lived out at Donaldson Point, east of New Madrid. As a young boy when all this land would flood, our house was on stilts. High off the ground, water would pat the floor till the water would resede.1958 went to the old Hickerson country school. My teacher was Ms. Allison the School was later moved to New Madrid where it now sits for all to see. Thank you for the history love it!

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

You have some interesting history yourself.

@AdventuresBeginHere409 Жыл бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil Thank you for your comment, you do a great job, and it is appreciated.

@tantraman93 10 ай бұрын

Higgerson School.

@AmandaBAndrews 8 ай бұрын

I watched the Higgerson School being moved, with a tractor, to its current location. Came down the levee, in front of the Bank & they had to lift the electric lines for it to fit under. Quite the sight!

@cagle67 Жыл бұрын

I was born and raised about 3 miles from REELFOOT LAKE. This area I will always carry in my heart.... One beautiful creation!.. Around here, those sandy spots are called sand blows.

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I didn't hear that term until after I made the video.

@WiseSnake 7 ай бұрын

You were very close to Big Oak Tree State Park, a protected area that contains one of the last remnants of the virgin bottomland hardwood forest that used to dominate the bootheel region. Lots of very old trees there.

@L.D.Intheditch 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting. I never heard of a sand volcano before. Thank You.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 ай бұрын

They are also called "sand boils".

@juancuatrolados8527 8 ай бұрын

Very good job of explaining, thank you! I can still see my grandpa, Harold Henry, with my older brother paddling one of those old boats made of two car hoods welded together. The weld broke and they sank about 50 yards offshore. Reelfoot Lake ca. 1950.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Wow ! That's a unique way to make a boat. I took a welding class about 30 years ago. I wouldn't trust my weld to hold up in water.

@eds5881 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up very close to New Madrid MO. Those sand volcanos/sand blows are called sand boils. As during the earthquake the sand gave the appearance of boiling up.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the extra term.

@randysabel 9 ай бұрын

So does farming crops just go right over the sand blows? Sand blows are visual from the ground level. I would almost think that after all these years with farming activity the soils would have blended and all look alike?

@Suncast45 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Paducah and have been there several times. Never realized it looks like a colon polyp, LOL

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

And you didn't need a colonoscopy to find out ! :-)

@jakedrago7805 8 ай бұрын

Mississippi River geology is among the most fascinating as it happens fast over years and decades unlike most geology which happens over millions of years

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Very true

@danielquimby8924 8 ай бұрын

A very nice little piece of history and I'm glad to have learned it. Thanks for sharing.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@VooDoo31818 7 ай бұрын

My grandma and her family lived in union Tennessee when she was 8 years old her family traveled into New Madrid and settled in Missouri

@jasontaylor9702 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great job! You can tell how much you love doing this

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. You are very kind.

@GoodatNaps 6 ай бұрын

My ancestors helped settle this area. At least one of their family cemeteries is now under water due to the river.

@TravelsWithPhil 6 ай бұрын

Interesting. Some of my Cherokee ancestors crossed the river here when the Cherokees were removed from Georgia to Oklahoma in the 1830s.

@lynnglidewell7367 Жыл бұрын

One point you missed making was that in order to reach the Kentucky portion of the river bend you have to go to the small town of Tiptonville Tennessee to access the road that goes up into it. Otherwise only reached by ferryboat.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

I came in from the north and used Cates Landing Road. But, yes, many people would come through Tiptonville.

@randyferrell6365 8 ай бұрын

Is there a ferry in that area?

@lynnglidewell7367 8 ай бұрын

@@randyferrell6365 Yes, Ferry at Hickman KY

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Yes, it is called the Dorena-Hickman Ferry. - Here is my video about it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7pgqr2n3M26lXk.html - @@randyferrell6365

@ernestclements7398 7 ай бұрын

Yes and if you proceed West out of Tiptonville you will cross the river at Hayti Missouri but immediately after passing through Hayti you will be in Arkansas, i once took that route to Branson Missouri by way of Mountain Home, Yellville, and Harrisonville it was a beautiful trip in the late fall.

@Dgoldsweeps4002 8 ай бұрын

Wow ....raised my whole family here in Elizabethtown Ky and never knew this history...cool. I think we will take a family trip out there .

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Many of the overhead shots I showed are on private property. The street scene is public, though.

@Idrinklight44 8 ай бұрын

Ever in this area, try and visit Big Oak Tree state park in Missouri. This whole area was covered in trees of this size.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Sounds like an interesting place.

@dustydawson2384 8 ай бұрын

Sand “boils” happen when the river gets really high. They’re caused by groundwater rising to the surface. The water level will be higher on the River side of the levee.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. Good to know.

@cherylwinstead9261 7 ай бұрын

Liked this. Many do not realize it is an active area.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Potential to be much more active, too

@bonzie321 7 ай бұрын

Very nice video. Thank you.

@timsexton 2 жыл бұрын

Very compact & informative. Thank You !!

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

You are very kind

@billguernsey6419 7 ай бұрын

I live in Murray Ky just over the Tenn line the land has huge amounts of pure clean sand. Pretty different from our clay.

@Emslander 7 ай бұрын

The Mississippi will be exactly what it wants to be, as it wants it. Another commenter said that the bend will one day close and cut out the oxbow. There are many of those along the River south of there. It could happen in the next high water, maybe this coming spring.

@garry1214 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this video. I knew this bend existed but did not know much about it, thanks for posting.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@tripler3724 9 ай бұрын

I traced my family back to the early 1800s in New Madrid to my father. He left with his family after one too many floods. In 1976, I was transferred to our district office in Dexter and assigned to work in New Madrid where I worked for many years. I was often in the town itself where the sheriff's office and courthouse were only a few blocks from the levy. It is an interesting area with a lot of history.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Keeping those family ties intact

@tripler3724 8 ай бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil Yep and I wish I knew more.

@blakespower 7 ай бұрын

if you look at the satellite view of the Mississippi river flood plain is vast! it used to be like the Amazon River of North America where entire forests would be flooded for part of the year replenishing the soil

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

And then add in the Missouri, and it is even more massive

@Idrinklight44 8 ай бұрын

Road sign was very helpful!

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@danherrmann8755 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for info. I will add to my bucket list.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Have fun!

@jeffmatson2046 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent job! I truly Enjoy maps of kinds as well. Keep up the good works.💪

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate that.

@jondoealoe 7 ай бұрын

I paddled a canoe around that bend on my way down the Mississippi. I was very tempted to portage it.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

That would have been interesting.

@jondoealoe 7 ай бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil New Madrid was interesting! In a bar there, I met a guy who did the Mississippi on a raft once and in a Jon boat once. I also met a man who broke his leg wrestling with a bear. Most of my trip, I met people who admired what I was doing. I met kindred spirits in New Madrid.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Very exciting. There are lots of folks who go out and do things. @@jondoealoe

@ZilsR922 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks have always wanted to see that area.

@jimzepf3910 8 ай бұрын

First time watcher,never heard of this before very informative I'll watch for your videos tks for the education

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

hank you. I enjoy doing these.

@tracyruth4247 7 ай бұрын

Very cool and informative! TY!

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@Nomed38 Жыл бұрын

The knob. I've always wanted to see a surveyor's map of that region from before the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake happened.

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

"The Knob" is a good description

@takeflightsbih636 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this video

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@djterry1218 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lesson.👍🏼

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@charlietanner6211 8 ай бұрын

if that miss ever blows thru that short bend ive heard it will make miss impassasble due to current was there in late 70s neat seeing allthe tows on that bend the night we were there there was 23 tows on that bend

@danielfrondorf8104 2 жыл бұрын

I've always found this part of the world interesting for many of the same reasons explained in the video, and I got to visit there in 2012 on my way back from a business trip.....much of the soybean fields at that time were planted in cotton; there is a flood protection berm along a long stretch of the east side of the bend, and also a small cemetery that is accessible from the main public road, otherwise not much to see except the wide open space of middle America; excellent video - thanks for sharing!

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

I saw the marker for the cemetery. Mark Twain talked about a six generation feud here in his book Life on the Mississippi. I wonder if any of those folks in the cemetery are from that feud.

@scenicdriveways6708 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing it!

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

@Idrinklight44 8 ай бұрын

Great video!!!

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@kbrewski1 7 ай бұрын

The New Madrid EarthQUAKES (emphasis plural) happened over a 2 year period in 1811-12. A lot of tremors, then the big ones, then the aftershocks. So not all that changing of the Miss River path happened overnight with 1 quake. It was a series of quakes.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

I agree

@stan1027 7 ай бұрын

Similarly in Kentucky, just as that part is cut off by the Mississippi River, if you look at a map of Russell County, Ky, you will see that a part of the county is entirely cut off from the rest by Lake Cumberland, the area around Jabez, Ky and parts that are on the south side of the lake

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Geography sure can be interesting

@boogitybear2283 2 жыл бұрын

I recently visited the Kentucky Bend but I was scared out of my mind thinking that Earthquake was going to occur any second!

@indigomarine91 9 ай бұрын

You must have been a kid

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

I was a bit anxious during my first trip to California, too

@whyaskwhybuddry 8 ай бұрын

@boogitybear2283, I expect it will this coming April when the Solar Eclipse will form an "X" with the 2007 Eclipse.

@bullhead900 7 ай бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil With good reason!

@tosh369 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Thanks!

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@jameswalker3973 8 ай бұрын

Reelfoot is a good place to observe eagles in the wild.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Sounds good

@SampleroftheMultiverse 7 ай бұрын

Did not know that. Cannot wait to share with friends.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Thanks

@country3608 2 жыл бұрын

Great educational video!👍🇺🇸

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@uhtredsonifuhtred5664 7 ай бұрын

I spent the first 6 years of my life in Kentucky Bend, some call it Bessie Bend or Kentucky Island. The houses in your video are family.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Nice to meet you.

@dillonjohnson3106 7 ай бұрын

I’m from the area and have always been told the reason the river ran backwards was due to the flowing of water into the new reelfoot lake, from the Mississippi River. But I could be wrong. Just what Ive grew up hearing

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Both reasons could be correct

@scottnielsen1553 8 ай бұрын

A few years ago, I wondered why Missouri had that " boot heal" and why did this not belong to Arkansas. I suspected the earthquakes had something to do with this. I found that indeed the earthquakes of 1811 & 1812 were the cause. The earthquakes really devastated the whole area. In addition, there were aftershocks that went on for years. As a result, settlers abandoned the region for the most part. This one guy bought up most of the boot heal. He wanted his land to be in Missouri, not Arkansas, so he lobbied in Washington, and made this happen. As this area developed, the immediate New Madrid area lagged behind the rest of this area by half a century, because no one wanted or were hesitant to live in the immediate area of the quakes. This is what my research indicated generally.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

I read the same thing. History can be really interesting and individual-driven at times.

@Paul71H 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting. By the way, it's the "bootheel" rather than "boot heal" (because it resembles a literal boot heel).

@dogmosatchmo 7 ай бұрын

Super interesting!!!

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Thanks

@bradleyrussell1973 7 ай бұрын

Good vid!!!

@baashtone7092 8 ай бұрын

Even though you may have been slightly mistaken about some of your historical facts and observations, this was a very good presentation. Thank you.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes, I made it sound like the 1812 earthquake destroyed Island 10, which was still there during the Civil War. Bad verbiage use on my part. "Sand Boils" is also perhaps the most commonly used local term, too.

@eyespygouldians3536 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@augustinpicard4042 8 ай бұрын

I grew up in western Kentucky….I found this very interesting

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@kbrewski1 7 ай бұрын

They should just make that Kentucky bulb part of Missouri. Would make more sense until the next Big One. Pretty crazy that all the barge traffic and riverboats have to navigate that ring around the rosy every time.

@ricrid Жыл бұрын

Good crappie in reelfoot

@ChrisTopher-zo1vg 2 жыл бұрын

I live in western Kentucky, nice video!

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@Paul71H 7 ай бұрын

What amazes me is that the river hasn't yet cut across that thin neck of land (just south of the KY/TN border), and turned the bend into a horseshoe lake, separated from the river. But I suppose that will happen eventually.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

The families living there might try to build a wall.

@elithepitbulldog2209 8 ай бұрын

So I looked on google earth and it appears there are only 2 other families living in that area of Kentucky, other than the house where the guy is mowing the lawn and with the cute black pit bull dog! Of course I had to say that

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Sounds about right. Most census data say around 12 to 15 people.

@259Brew 6 ай бұрын

I remember kayaking that spot. it was a pain to do. I almost portaged my kayak to skip it

@TravelsWithPhil 6 ай бұрын

That would save some distance, to be sure

@jamestorline3965 2 жыл бұрын

Ky here, and cool didn't know tks

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@gretafields4706 8 ай бұрын

Wow, you mention a backward flow!! I am interested in the ruver because I dreamed of walking alongside the flooded river to a loading platform. I dreamt 4 dreams of being on the Trsil of Tears at the river with about 20 others and my father. In the last dream I was on a piece of a wooden platform floating into rapids... Downhill. I knew I would die in seconds, but it was a relief it was over.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

A very unusual dream

@gretafields4706 8 ай бұрын

Yes, very strange, but I met other people who dream stuff. It is more like an old memory. Martha Erickson went to the river and saw a Cherokee woman, washing her hands in a creek nearby Mantle Rock (the shelter rock). I saw a ghost like that twice, animal, so I believed her. Apparently Cherokee are haunted.😳

@unappreciatedtreehouse821 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I live near Cape Girardeau.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@whitsonhenry4955 2 жыл бұрын

I farmed there on island no10 hear there for 30 years know about the bend. I'm from New Madrid.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

When did Island 10 go away?

@larrycates7655 2 жыл бұрын

That is in Fulton county Kentucky I was working on the county jail and asked one of the deputies how they managed patrol issues. He said Tennesse works with them without issue .

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

That's a good thing. I was in law enforcement for 20 years. I know jurisdictional things can be problematic.

@ricrid Жыл бұрын

I spent a couple days in new madrid county jail its not there no more they were treating inmates bad so they shut it down

@billwilson-es5yn 6 ай бұрын

What's odd is that nobody knew where the earthquakes were occurring until a year after the last ones happened. The region was sparsely settled and the majority of the raftmen drowned when the big river went wild. One raft carrying a businessman to New Orleans mansged to stay intact and complete it's journey wiere the businessman recorded the ordeal to present to a newspaper on the east coast once home. His account is online at a website about the New Madrid Earthquakes. President Jefferson had Congress provide money for the townspeople of New Madrid to rebuild on higher ground, which made them the first recipients of federal disaster aid. More survivors told about their experiences during the earthquakes after eastern newspaper reporters arrived there. Several said the river ran backwards when the riverbed rose to create a waterfall with others saying the river would drain into huge crevasses that opened up then shoot back out into the air when the crevasses closed back up. Crevasses would open and close on land so the settlers felled trees across those to climb into once the ground started shaking again. Coal would shoot out of the crevasses so the settlers picked up the chunks over the years to burn during the winter.

@TravelsWithPhil 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for the extra information

@Tara-sf7uu 2 ай бұрын

The guy on the mower was just trying to be Agent Hillbilly 007 and see why you were there. I live in west Tn, and when new folks visit my neighborhood, suddenly 3 riding mowers crank up and it looks like the Cub Cadet task force is on a recon mission 😂

@TravelsWithPhil 2 ай бұрын

LOL. I was actually contacted by someone here who said it was their father's dog.

@lorindastrouse599 Ай бұрын

Love this!! You should go to Reelfoot Lake

@TravelsWithPhil Ай бұрын

I wish I had made it there.

@patrickdurham8393 2 жыл бұрын

Reelfoot lake is possibly the best crappie and bream lake ever.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

How do they taste?

@patricklondon6006 8 ай бұрын

And Bigfoot

@patrickdurham8393 8 ай бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhilBest ever. Water is surprisingly clean.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Ever heard of Momo the Monster? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_the_Monster @@patricklondon6006

@davidholman6276 7 ай бұрын

Technical term for such a piece of territory is an exclave

@bradleyrussell1973 7 ай бұрын

These are oxbows. Common for river livin’ folk. Yip the river RAN backwards because the western plate raised up almost 4’, causing the lake.

@timhallas4275 8 ай бұрын

Actually, the 1812 earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi river at the New Madrid bend. For a period of 10years, that bend was dry.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Interesting

@MoneypitHomestead 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for sharing this video and all of this wonderful information about my Kentucky!! You really did a great job explaining everything, and I was hooked from the very start! Hopefully, I will be able to make videos like this someday. May God bless your days the way He always blesses ours! Donald @ #moneypithomestead

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. I enjoy doing these videos.

@MoneypitHomestead 2 жыл бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil It really does show!

@mikeries8549 8 ай бұрын

You better bring up Big Lake in Arkansas. Created by the new Madrid earthquake just like reelfoot.

@kosjeyr 10 ай бұрын

Never heard of "sand volcanoes" before.

@TravelsWithPhil 10 ай бұрын

Sand Blows, Sand Boils, Sand Volcanoes . . .

@chrisjones933 8 ай бұрын

The river did run backwards. It wasn't from sloshing rather from the formation of Reelfoot lake and the river feeding it.

@gretafields4706 8 ай бұрын

I live in east ky. There's a part Cherokee man here who said there used to be an old indian here who said he swam in the river when it ran backwards. That must have been the earthquake. My ancestors came here at circa 1801, before the quake.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

That would have been quite the adventure. FYI, I am Cherokee, too.

@medasignman 7 ай бұрын

Looks like it might form an oxbow lake, some time.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

I would not be surprised.

@skeetlegeetles9449 2 жыл бұрын

There is a similar spot like this in the Omaha area. Carter Lake IA

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Another interesting place. Although, technically, it is still connected to the rest of Iowa. One of the hazards of using meandering rivers as boundaries. There are others like this: Elwood, Kansas at the Rosecrans Memorial Airport - Desoto National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska - Soldier Bend Wildlife Area, Iowa. The State line between Soldier Bend and Decatur Nebraska moves back and forth across the river several times here.

@carlenasp 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Never knew kentucky was a two piece state. Strange it is a spot sandwiched w missouri / tennessee

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

That's why it appealed to me

@michaelleroi9077 8 ай бұрын

More often than not are mounds at river bends as in Horseshoe Lake to Monks Mound in Illinois. Any records of mounds there?

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

There is a place called "HOWARDVILLE INDIAN MOUND", between New Madrid and Howardville: mapcarta.com/21129528 --- There are also other sites in the county: mostateparks.com/page/84801/new-madrid-county-national-register-listings

@jamesmurray8558 7 ай бұрын

Wow, that is interesting. The odd things of the U.S. will amaze people.I was at Mt.St.Helens.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Both are interesting, but Mt. St. Helens is much more dramatic and scenic. I've been there a couple of times.

@hphillips7425 8 ай бұрын

Interesting

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@dennisdrury-rg8ms 8 ай бұрын

The ground shook in the'80's. I was in my basement in Jamestown, Ohio (near Dayton, Ohio. I felt it at the time. I had my toolbox on sawhorses near the basement steps . I could see the movement between the steps and the toolbox. I yelled at my boys upstairs because I thought they were shaking the house. Weird how your mind works! I was shocked later to find out what it really was.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Wow !

@bullhead900 7 ай бұрын

I remember that!

@MrPAULONEAL Жыл бұрын

There should be a canal built at the closest part of the bend.

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

Those farmers would lose their land, if that happened.

@morefiction3264 7 ай бұрын

How long before the river cuts off that bend and leaves New Madrid on an oxbow lake instead of the river?

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

It ranges from tomorrow, to Who Knows.

@ao7892 2 жыл бұрын

A teacher in Indiana predicted that a massively destructive earthquake can possibly remove the whole state of Kentucky

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

Another 8+ earthquake on the New Madrid fault would certainly cause a massive amount of damage. Most seismologists think Memphis would be especially hard hit.

@Paul71H 7 ай бұрын

Another New Madrid quake like the 1811-1812 quakes would likely devastate western Kentucky, but I doubt it would have a major impact on central and eastern Kentucky.

@davim1979 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if the post office from Ky handles that mail or if Tn would?

@TravelsWithPhil 5 ай бұрын

I would expect Tennessee, as the closest town with a post office is in Tennessee.

@obsidianjane4413 7 ай бұрын

I guess that is better than calling them "sand pimples".

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

LOL

@paulm5935 7 ай бұрын

Aren't these sand volcanoes just an extreme example of earth liquifaction, being extreme, because of the large magnitude of the earthquake that caused them? They also remind me of what I've seen documented in the vicinity of the Marianna Trench. I believe they're called mud volcanoes? Paul M. Atlanta, GA

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

It could be liquifaction, but I have not seen any descriptions talking about how fluid the sand is in one of these.

@alanstrong3295 2 жыл бұрын

Rivers have gone through so many changes. Mississippi River is imcluded.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

There are lots of places where the river no longer reflects the state lines

@earlelfrink 7 ай бұрын

The one place where Missouri is due east of Kentucky. And north of Kentucky, also.

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Gotta love geography

@earlelfrink 7 ай бұрын

Have you considered the extreme oddity of Crowley's Ridge just west of this area. A geological peculiarity to say the least. @@TravelsWithPhil

@TravelsWithPhil 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for letting me know about it.@@earlelfrink

@ernestclements7398 7 ай бұрын

According to the legend, shortly before the quake, Shawnee chief Tecumseh, visited the local chief Reelfoot, whose village stood where the lake now is, trying to drum up support for his confedration of all of the tribes West of the Appalachian mountains in order to force white settlers back over the mountains, during this visit, he is said to have given Reel foot a bundle of red painted sticks with instructions to break one of the sticks at the end of each day, and burn it, and on the day after the last stick was broken, he would " stomp his foot, and the earth would shake, the sky would darken, and the whites would flee in terror, with this proof of his medicine, the tribes should rise up against the whites, and force them back over the mountains, because of this tale, the whites in the area would refer to all natives, as " redsticks" later Tecumseh met his fate, at what Americans would come to call the battle of the Thames, in Ontario Canada, which the locals call " The battle of MacGregors Mill. ( where my late wife's ancestors settled after fleeing Scotland, The battle was mainly fought on their land, later the family moved West to MacGregors Point on Lake Huron, where their land is now MacGregors Point National Park, her famed ancestor Rob Roy is buried in a small family cemetery there, and in her family since his time, there has been one male child in every generation, named Rob Roy.

@MsBee-tr9ti 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting!!! Thank you!!!

@moosefactory133 Жыл бұрын

I still cannot figure out why it is completely separated from the rest of Kentucky. Was it at one time connect but the Earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River in such a way to dip south of the southern border of Kentucky or was it just a simple survey mistake?

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

While I do not know the specific reason, I suspect they set up the state line to follow a certain latitude, and on the east side of the river. This was not knowing that the Mississippi River crossed that line in a big bend.

@moosefactory133 Жыл бұрын

@@TravelsWithPhil I finally found the answer in a video entitled "Weird Borders: State Borders of the United States of America." The course of the Mississippi dips south of the 36.5 degree parallel however this was either not known or was not taken into account. The video explains it better than I can.

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

@@moosefactory133 That confirms what I said above. Good guess on my part.

@pixelpusher8986 8 ай бұрын

Live nearby. Waiting for the next historic earthquake. We had a good pressure release quake last year. I think it was a 2 or 3.

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

Good luck. I live in California where we are always waiting for the next one.

@jimbodice2672 2 жыл бұрын

Why in tarnation's did they draw up the maps like this? Why not just make that part of the state Tennessee? I mean back then, obviously harder to change up nowadays, depending on who lives their.

@TravelsWithPhil 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen the original documents, but I would guess that a group decided Kentucky should go all the way to the east side of the Mississippi River above 36.5 degrees latitude (+/-). And, Tennessee should be below 36.5 degrees (=/-), or something like that. I suspect they didn't realize the bend in the river would isolate that piece of land.

@builderman912 4 ай бұрын

curious how the giverment works in that area? for instance, the guy in kentucky calls 911....cops come from?

@TravelsWithPhil 4 ай бұрын

Good question. My assumption is the calls are routed to the nearest city with a police/fire department. So few people live in the "bubble" I would not think there would be many calls.

@WolfNippleChips71 2 жыл бұрын

If the government would have ever enforced a travel ban from state-to-state these people would be screwed

@TravelsWithPhil 8 ай бұрын

No doubt

@danhall4990 Жыл бұрын

The sand boils are caused by water in the Mississippi that are higher than the land level in the bend and that higher water level behind the levee on the Missouri side of the river creates pressure and pushes the water underground and when it finds a weak spot it will rise and push the sand above the surface to create the sand boils. The farmland on the west side of the bend, around East Praire, MO. are covered in the sand boils. Earth tremors have nothing to do with the creation of them. The only time they occur is in high water level events on the Big Muddy

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

Not all sand blows/boils/volcanoes are caused by earthquakes, and some of those in this area may be due to other forms of liquifaction. But numerous sources, including the United States Geological Survey, say that sand blows near New Madred were created by the 1812 earthquake, and other quakes. ----- New Madrid website --- "The world's largest sand boil was created by the New Madrid earthquake. It is 1.4 miles long and 136 acres in extent, located in the Bootheel of Missouri, about eight miles west of Hayti, Missouri. Locals call it "The Beach." Other, much smaller, sand boils are found throughout the area." --- www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquake#:~:text=Earthquake%20Phenomena&text=The%20world's%20largest%20sand%20boil,are%20found%20throughout%20the%20area.

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

"In the Midwest's New Madrid zone - a 150-mile-long fault system stretching southward from Cairo, Ill. - a series of powerful quakes occurred in 1811 and 1812. They were part of a string of magnitude 7 to 8 quakes that have occurred there every 500 years or so over the past 4,500 years. Evidence from so-called sand blows, formed when violent shaking causes underground sand and water to erupt, shows that big quakes occurred in the region in roughly 1450 A.D., 900 A.D. and 2350 B.C." ------------ library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2010040900

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

USGS - "The Geological Record There are historical accounts of major earthquakes in the New Madrid region during 1811-12. The geologic record of pre-1811 earthquakes also reveals that the New Madrid seismic zone has repeatedly produced sequences of major earthquakes, including several of magnitude 7 to 8, over the past 4,500 years. These prehistoric earthquakes caused severe and widespread ground failures in the New Madrid region, much like those caused by the 1811-12 earthquake sequence. The key evidence for large earthquakes that occurred in the past are sand blows that formed when underground sand and water erupted to the surface as a result of violent shaking. Numerous large sand blows over a wide area were created by strong ground shaking during the 1811-12 earthquakes. Similarly large, widespread, and abundant prehistoric sand blows were produced over the same area during ground shaking from previous clusters of large earthquakes around A.D. 1450, A.D. 900, and 2350 B.C. The sizes and areal distribution of the prehistoric sand blows indicate that the older earthquakes were similar in location and magnitude to the 1811-12 shocks. ------- pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3071/pdf/FS09-3071.pdf

@TravelsWithPhil Жыл бұрын

"A “Sand Boil” is a cone-shaped deposit of sand that is formed during an earthquake. A Sand Boil occurs when subsurface sand layers liquefy and are then blown to the surface through cracks." - - - - www.geoforward.com/sand-boil/#:~:text=A%20%E2%80%9CSand%20Boil%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,to%20the%20surface%20through%20cracks.