Curry County High Point Trip Report
Date: June 3, 2002
Author: Fred Lobdell
This unnamed cohp is located at the northwest corner of Curry County. However, we were not exactly
certain where that was.
The problem is that there are two east-west fences running along the north border of the county. They are
about 15 feet apart, and have a berm and a sunken roadway between them, at least for the first half mile.
If the fence on the south side of the road and berm marks the county line, then the northwest corner of that
property marks the county HP, as the land slopes downward from that corner to the south and east.
You can claim this one by simply sticking your foot through the fence at this point.
But if the northern fence marks the county line, and the road and berm are in Curry County, then the
problem is a bit more complicated. The berm is obviously the highest ground in the vicinity, and we walked
it eastward for perhaps three-quarters of a mile. But is it natural ground, or man-made? The possibility
exists that it is made of dirt scraped up from the depressed roadway, although why anyone would want to
create a sunken roadway, which would be subject to flooding and becoming muddy, is unknown to me and
defies logic.
A second possibility is that the berm represents an erosional remnant, the rest of the land having been
lowered by wind erosion by a couple of feet. I've seen this at many cohps, where a fence line or wooded
area is higher than the adjacent fields because the latter have been lowered by erosion. So I guess what we
need to know here is, which fence line marks the county line? Perhaps someone who has some time to spare
could hunt up the property owner and resolve this question.