CLOVER, SC (WBTV) - Ann Gaskey and her husband moved to York County from Charlotte 30 years ago, but they didn't move that far into South Carolina.
"It (the state line) cuts through the front corner of our yard," said Gaskey. "Initially it was long distance to call across the street."
Gaskey and four of her neighbors are now straddling the state line according to a recent survey of the line.
Alex Rankin with CESI Engineering in Concord, North Carolina is the surveyor charged with the task of finding the state line for the first time since 1772.
"It's an infinitely thin line," said Rankin. "All we're doing is locating where it is and defining it more closely than it's been done in the past."
The reason the need to better define the state line in the York, Mecklenburg county area is due to the uncertainty of where the line ran along Lake Wylie. So the 64 mile stretch of line in York county along with the rest of the NC/SC line was resurveyed to help GIS and GPS mapping know exactly where it was.
Rankin says the biggest misconception people have is the line is "moving". The line is where it has been since 1772. Surveyors are locating the exact line that was drawn at that time.
Officially Gaskey's house and most of her land is in South Carolina, just not a small corner of her front yard.
However the road she lives on from this Satellite map shows Willow Pond Road is in both states.
"It's bad yeah so you go out and go back around," said Gaskey.
She's talking about the almost half mile section of Willow Pond road that is in North Carolina with several large pot holes and cracks.
Gaskey was told since South Carolina paved the entire road in the first place it's South Carolinas responsibility because the pave job isn't up to North Carolina standards. Now that the state line is more defined and shows the section of road to be in North Carolina, South Carolina says North Carolina is responsible.
Rankin says it's rare to have the line spitting homes and a neighborhood. As to who's supposed to fix what, with which states tax dollars, is up in the air.
"Those are the types of issues the attorney generals for both states are trying to work out," said Rankin.
Meaning it could be a while before these pot holes get filled.
"If they just bring in gravel and maintained it with gravel on the road that would be fine," said Gaskey.
Just so Gaskey and the rest of her neighbors won't have to dodge pot holes anymore in any state.
The surveyors are now in Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties in South Carolina finding and remapping the line. They expect the entire state line to be finished in one to two years.
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