Where in Elk County Am I?

[indygal]

I'm just jumping in here to say I've enjoyed reading this thread, even though I'm one of the most directionally challenged people on the planet (I have literally been lost in an airport parking lot). Early in the conservation a link was posted to Back Roads Touring (or something like that! LOL) and it's got some great photos of southeast Kansas. Thanks for sharing that!

While I'm here, I'm going to toss in my two cents and guess that you are describing the Moline quarry.

[ddurbin]

You won't strike gold in the quarry, so take my advice and head for Colorado.

[jensarlou]

OK here is another guess.  I am not sure what the place is but there appears to be an old track of some sort east of Grenola next to what looks like a drag strip.  Since I don't know what it may be called I will give lat. N 37.2155 W 96.2426  This image is from Google Earth.

[ddurbin]

Here we go with clue #4. 

104 doves flew
4 miles from the line.
5 went west,
Leaving 99.

[Dee Gee]

Is it the race 'horse or car' track West of the old KDOT building and present yard on K-99 on the South side of Moline?
I don't remember ever seeing it before but something shows up there on the satellite photo.

[ddurbin]

WE HAVE A WINNER.  Dee Gee has pinpointed it.  I don't know the full history of it, but well before my time, there was a full-blown racetrack just SE of Moline.  If you know it's there, you can sort of see it from Hwy 99 as you drive by, but on many of the satellite maps, it does show up a whole lot better.  I became aware of it in the early 70's when my uncle hayed that field, and my crew hauled it to his hay barn just up the highway at the Livestock Auction.  We loved that job because it was a short haul, all on blacktop, and an easy barn to unload into.  Plus when we got the last of it picked up we could race the hay trucks around it.

[W. Gray]

That is amazing.

I looked all along K-99 down to Valley Road but did not see anything.

But it is right there and in plain sight on Google.

[Diane Amberg]

Some day when you have nothing else to do, figure out where this is.    N 39.69606  W 75.76130

[larryJ]

I would guess you are trying to give the coordinates for your place, however, when stating longitude and latitude, after the dot are the the minutes and they don't go over 60.  So I am guessing your place or Chester Pennsylvania. 

Larryj

[flintauqua]

The coordinates are converted to true decimal.  You can do that in acme maps by clicking on options.  N39 41' 45" W75 45' 40"

Some day when you have nothing else to do, figure out where this is.    N 39.69606  W 75.76130

Do you often shop at Super Fresh Food Market, or bank at PNC?  Nice little strip of small businesses between those two.