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1. I also think of Cairo, how far south it is. It's about 150 miles from Memphis! And it's in the same state as Chicago. Illinois seems further north than it is because it's so Chicago-centric.
2. The census classes WV as the 'South'. East Liverpool, far northern WV, is the same latitude as Manhattan!
3. Ohio and PA are the only thing separating Dixie from Canada.
4. Just how far west El Paso is, it's firmly in the Southwest. It's the same distance to LA as Houston.
5. That Oklahoma has a border with Colorado - most forgotten border in the US?
6. That NYC, biggest city in the US, is mostly on islands.
7. Crescent City, CA is almost the latitude of Boston. You think of California as warm, sunny and southern and Boston as cold and northern, but yep, they're the same latitude! Kind of like NYC and Naples.
8. That Virginia actually goes further west than West Virginia.
9. Florida is as wide as it is long (thanks to the Panhandle).
10. Just the shape of Maryland - it looks like it's cut into two pieces. Also how the 'Delmarva' Peninsula is covered by two states.
11. How the bigger Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas.
Mount Lassen is in Shasta County, CA...not Lassen County.
Mount Shasta is in Siskiyou County, CA...not Shasta County.
The state of Iowa has several of these: There is a Des Moines County, but the city of Des Moines is half a state away in Polk Couty. There is an Iowa County, but Iowa City is not in it, it is in Johnson County. There is a city of Johnson, but it is not in Johnson County, nor is Sioux City in Sioux County, nor Fort Madison in Madison County, nor Keokuk in Keokuk County, nor Cedar Rapids in Cedar County. IA has 99 counties but 100 county seats, one of the counties has 2 seats.
Maine only borders one state (NH). It's the only one of the 48 contiguous ones like this.
The town of Carter Lake, IA is on the west side of the Missouri River (everyplace else in IA is east of the Missouri).
Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles.
Isle Royale National Park is < 20 miles east across Lake Superior from MN, and ~25 miles south across Lake Superior from Thunder Bay, Ontario, but is within the state of Michigan, ~45 miles north of the closest point in that state.
Isn't that b/c of a flood on the Missouri that changed its course?
It's further from one end of Tennessee to the other than it is from Tennessee to Canada.
The Panama Canal is east of Miami.
If you go straight south from Buffalo, you'll eventually end up in the Pacific Ocean.
The southernmost tip of Canada lies south of a part of Ohio - and 25 other states.
In reference to the tip of Virginia being as far west as Detroit, as a resident of Michigan ive always found that interesting. If you leave my central Mi location and go due east you are looking at at least 800-900 miles to hit the east coast. However the further south you go in the USA the more narrow the nation is. The eastern most tip of Michigan is at around 82.3w, similar to Tampa Florida, or equal to east central Georgia. In the wider north part of the nation Michigan is far inland, considered part of the upper midwest, but if it were at that same longitude in the south you'd be an hour or two from the Atlantic ocean. The part about Canada is interesting too, from where I live you could guess that 10-20% of all Canadians live further south than I do. (much of that part of Ontario is highly populated). Geographical oddities like that are interesting, at least to a geek like me lol.
The smaller county seat in the US is Mentone, TX, essentially a ghost town (population 19). It's not even incorporated. The second smallest county seat is Amidon, ND, population 20. Check 'em out on Street View, they're something else!
The state of Iowa has several of these: There is a Des Moines County, but the city of Des Moines is half a state away in Polk Couty. There is an Iowa County, but Iowa City is not in it, it is in Johnson County. There is a city of Johnson, but it is not in Johnson County, nor is Sioux City in Sioux County, nor Fort Madison in Madison County, nor Keokuk in Keokuk County, nor Cedar Rapids in Cedar County. IA has 99 counties but 100 county seats, one of the counties has 2 seats.
The Supreme Court in the states of Alaska (Anchorage), California (San Francisco), Louisiana (New Orleans), and Maine (Portland) are not headquartered in the capital city. Tennessee (Jackson, Nashville, Knoxville) and Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia) each have three coequal supreme court locales.
This reminds me of a couple of other Iowa oddities: Sioux City is in IA, but North Sioux City is in South Dakota and South Sioux City is in Nebraska.
In the case of West New York, it makes sense, since New Jersey is what is west of New York City.
That's a geographical feature that I notice sometimes people from outside the NY area don't understand. New York City is on this little area of land that hangs down from the rest of New York State and sits east of New Jersey (with Long Island going further east than that.)
I work with a couple of people who commute to work by leaving their homes in other New York counties and get to New York City by crossing through New Jersey.
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