common point | 31 Jan 2009 | part one

A video quest to find the common point between Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Kern counties in southern California. This part depicts the drive to far northern Los Angeles County in an uninhabited region of the Antelope Valley, an area which, nevertheless, contains a network of numbered dirt roads awaiting future development.

The common point between Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Kern counties is an iron pipe set in the ground next to the barbed wire fence marking the southern boundary of Edwards Air Force Base (see part two), a part of southern California's extensive desert military infrastructure and a southern California institution.

I discovered an interesting fact about the road names in the Antelope Valley while studying the topographic maps of the area: The avenue names familiar to anyone driving California State Highway 14 freeway (the 14 Freeway) in the Antelope Valley (Avenue S, Avenue P, etc are all names of exits off the 14 Freeway) begin with Avenue A at the east-west Los Angeles/Kern County line. These are lettered alphabetically -- Avenue A, Avenue B, Avenue C, etc -- southward from the county line at one mile intervals.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• geography
• surveying
• southern
• California
• Los
• Angeles
• County
• San
• Bernardino
• Kern
• Edwards
• Air
• Force
• Base

[bapyou]

@toddrunt "looks flat, it's florida"

This part of the desert is sort of flat, but not far away are mountains over 9000 ft elevation.

[toddrunt]

looks flat,it's florida......and slow down mario.

[bapyou]

@davidsquall351 Hi David. It was a real adventure getting to the common point, navigating the dirt roads of northern L.A. County is an experience. I used the topo maps and, once we were on foot, a compass to head off due northeast.

[bapyou]

@italokid80 Hello Andrei. This is an old video from two years ago taken with the same camera I have used for the past 5 years. I still haven't used the new HD camera that I have. I have to figure out how to use it. Yo soy el stupido.

[davidsquall351]

Great idea, to head out to the corners of these counties.

[italokid80]

(with the new HD camera?)