Ever Wonder Why Roads Often times Don’t Line up When You Go from One County to the Next?

A listener by the name of Terry contacted me via Facebook wanting to know, "How come when you drive from one county into another, a lot of times there is a slight curve because the roads don't line up?"

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Shortly after that listener Mark called up with the answer.

"The earth is round, so if you take a flat piece of paper and you roll it over a globe it kind of crinkles up," explained Mark. "So what they do is the sections that are south of the correction area they all make square and when you get to the north end of the section it's called a correction section, those areas will be smaller. As you start north of that road they are bigger again. So when you put a bigger one next to a smaller one you have a correction."

Thanks Mark.  Now we know!