For those of you who are bored (or unfortunate enough to have to work today), or just generally in need of something to do, I offer this.

I clicked on a random spot on Google Earth, zoomed in, then scrolled around, stopping at the first town I encountered.

This is what came up:



Your job . . . guess the town. You can search Google Earth all you want to see if you can find it.

I will tell you that it is in the Continental U.S.

Good luck.

I'm outta here for most of the day and will check back to see if anyone actually tried. The first person to guess correctly wins a prize.

Let's see . . . uhhh . . . a bag of M&Ms candy.

Enjoy.

 

Has the image been modified, IE rotated or anything?

 

You're going to have to give us a better clue than 'in the USA'. This could be just about anywhere in the United States...

Some farm land... railroads... centerpoint irrigation...dry...meandering stream/river...highways...airport (western side)...not much elevation change across the picture (generally flat)...

 

It's the lost city of Atlantis.

 

Yeah, so this would only take about 482 straigh hours to figure out the town...

 

It's McAdenville North Carolina

35°15′50″N, 81°4′45″W

Somebody with google earth check that, I've just got a hunch.
(My video card is messed up and crashes google earth....)

 

Looks awful 'dry' to be NC but, who knows... Goog Earth crashes on this machine... I'll check it tomorrow on the work lappy.

 

I really don't think it's in North Carolina...

 

I checked for you PSS. That's not it. I'd post a pic but you can't get close enough without it going blurry and unrecognizable.

 

Yea it doesnt have the highway running through it....
Hmmm, McAdenville North Carolina is home to Christmas town USA, so thought maybe Kobi randomly clicked on a pre selected site.

 

North is at the top. Image not modified/rotated/etc.


No, I'm not going to have to. But I'll consider it.

That's the point. I picked a place at random. It could be anywhere in the U.S. and is. If I got really specific it would be easy to find. Hey, an entire bag of M&Ms rest on finding this! You think I'm going to make it easy?!?!?!?!?!

Well then, get busy. At the latest you should have it by Sunday the 24th.

No. It's not. Here's another clue. It's not anywhere in North Carolina.

That is correct, and RP highlighted 'dry' and that would be a clue if I were to give you a clue. Follow Horace Greeley's advice (although it is wrongly attributed to him).

While that is interesting, such is not the case. The town has no connection to me, it was picked by chance. Like I said, I closed my eyes and clicked on the satellite image and randomly scrolled until I came to the first town. I have no connection to it, have never been there, in fact never been anywhere near there. Random. Totally.

Come on . . . at least one of the members of this site must live there and should recognize it . . . (I'm assuming . . . can you do a search based on member's listed location?).

 

It has a small airport. With no real commercial hangers or services, so contract maintance for small commuter aircract is out. Some small airports have a sub-division built around them so that eliminates a richer town. I believe runways are numbered by their orientation to the compass. So the run ways might be called 4 for 45 degrees and runway 31 for 315 degrees. My thoughts on a clue.

I will not do it but there are listing of rural airports, with two run ways in a arid state that has a under valued town. Might also have a flying school.

 

6 million square miles is a pretty large playing field. This better be a LARGE bag of M&Ms.

Can you give us a scale? How big is that center-point irrigation feature? How long is the runway (450)?


From the looks of it, it's about 30,000 people strong (if that large). Difficult to interpret without a scale...

 

Is that a fault running north to south? I'm thinking west coast.

Duke

 

Based on the surrounding surficial geology, no. That's a road or railway.

I do, however, concur that this is more in the western US...

The centerpoint irrigation feature is a big clue. This type of agriculture, while present nearly everywhere in the US that has some level of agriculture, is more prevalent in the southwestern US (ie: New Mexico, Arizona, Western Texas). Also, this would coincide with with the 'dry' conditions that are obviously present.

The little airstrip on the western side of the photo is an interesting one... that could definitely be used as a clue. Runways 40 and 450 maybe?