Ohio State Line
Back last winter while watching Fish Report Live, I noticed that the logos for the various conferences and organizations represented in the background of the set had some skewed Ohio maps that were no-where near consistent. So I made a mental note to check out the discrepancies at some point in a future blog. So in the dog days of August, here goes.
As you can see in the above logos, the Ohio boundaries are all aligned differently.
Similarly, the various Ohio maps I found on-line were all different as indicated below:
So which version is right? After some digging on google and I found that the territorial lines were determined back in the late 1700’s before Ohio’s 1803 statehood according to the longitude lines as shown below:
This version based on the boundaries parallel to longitudinal lines makes sense to me. However, back in the day, all the early explorers had were compasses, which were not accurate by about 5% as indicated on this diagram. To put it in perspective, the geographic north pole is actually about 500 kilometers from the magnetic north pole indicated by a compass, or about 5% off.
Based on this map, the MAC logo seems to be the most accurate depiction of the state of Ohio boundaries. Maybe that explains why the MAC conference dominates Ohio athletics - it’s simply geography!!
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