He was more successful with his concession of land fronting the Mississippi River on which he founded St. Philippe, an agricultural community.

Leicester Town Council accepted on 29 October 1878, "a handsome ornamental fountain to be placed in the centre of the land fronting the Town Hall Buildings" which was a gift to the Borough from Israel Hart, a former Mayor of Leicester.

West of the Humber River, outside the city limits, the waterfront has been mainly private lands fronting on the lake.

The commune is entirely set on the alluvial land fronting the River Rhine, but the foothills of the north Vosges Mountains, where the River Lauter has its source, are not far away.

With the Ferris purchases he owned the land fronting the turnpike opposite his original Van Tassel farm.

His grassy, rolling land fronting a winding two-lane road is next to Northwood Woods, a subdivision of 225 houses.

The Yambuk Important Bird Area comprises a 10 km tract of coastal land fronting Bass Strait in south-western Victoria, south-eastern Australia.

In 1930 the owner of a strip of land fronting a highway sold the land to the council, which contemporaneously leased it back to him upon terms set out in a memorandum of agreement providing that'the tenancy shall continue until the.land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of' the highway.

Much of the land fronting the bay along Metro Manila is reclaimed land which now includes important sites such as the Philippine Senate and the Mall of Asia.