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Iowa is the only state in the US where it's Eastern & Western borders are completely water. The Mississipi rivers runs along the East border, and the Western border is split between the Missouri river (southern half) and the Sioux river (Northern half).
I already posted pretty much the same thing back about two pages before you did....but thanks anyway!
The most common US county/parish names by number of occurances are: Washington (30), Jefferson (25), Franklin (24), Jackson and Lincoln (23), Madison (19), Clay and Montgomery (18), Marion, Monroe and Union (17), Wayne (16), Grant, Greene and Warren (14).
All but one of these county names can be found in each of these states: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. And all but two can be found in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri.
Michigan, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, South Carolina....unless by "water" they meant "rivers".
Not Wiscosnsin. The northern part of the Minnesota border is land. Also, the western border of New Jersey has a tiny bit of land boundary with a section of Delaware that is east of the Delaware River.
Technically, Iowa doesn't qualify, either. Part of the Iowa-Nebraska border is dry land. Legally, the boundary is defined as the Missouri River, but the river has changed course, leaving dry land where the border used to be at several places, including the border between Omaha and Carter Lake. There are even buildings that are in both Iowa and Nebraska: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Carte...mie,+Iowa&z=17
There's an unincorporated community in arizona named "Why". And why, you ask? Well, according to Wikipedia: "The unusual name of the town comes from the fact that the two major highways , State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection. At the time of its naming, Arizona law required all city names to have at least three letters, so the town's founders named the town "Why" as opposed to simply calling it 'Y'." And that's why.
Of course the state with the highest proportion of water borders is... Hawaii.
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