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North Carolina has only 8 miles of boundary defined by a river. Missouri has a river boundary with 7 of its 8 neighbors, and only 35 miles of land border with the eighth one. Texas, Maine, Florida. Washington and New Jersey have river borders with all their neighbors. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana have none.
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Originally Posted by pch1013
The UP has a dry-land border with Wisconsin.
But that is an extension of Michigan's southern border. The western end of the UP is formed by a north -flowing river. The land border between Michigan and Wisconsin runs more east-west, forming the southern border of the UP.
In the far northern portion of Lake County, Tennessee- along Route 22 near the Kentucky Bend area- there is a point where the Mississippi River flows northward. And approximately 4000 feet to the west of this point, the river flows southward.
There are only three lower-48 states with land borders with only one other state: Maine (New Hampshire), New Jersey (New York) and South Carolina (North Carolina), not including tiny quirks (as mentioned earlier) where river banks might have changed or river islands disputed with river-bordered states (NJ with Pennsylvania, Delaware, SC with Georgia). Maine of course is unique in the lower-48 in bordering on only one other state in total.
Taking the river border topic a step further to an irregular (non straight line) border, the only state with a completely irregular border sans straight lines would be Hawaii. Every other state has a man made, surveyed straight line. Several states are completely surveyed lines (CO, UT, WY and all but a few miles of NM). NJ would have to be high on the list of least percentage of straight line borders, MI as well.
Compare this to a map of Europe where you don't see a straight line boundary outside of extreme northern Scandinavia, and then those aren't straight for long stretches, at least compared to what we have on this side of the pond. My guess would be older historical boundaries were established on rivers, mountains, watershed or other criteria before surveying technologies advanced.
Many of the US place names that contain the word "winter" are ironically located in central Florida: Winter Beach, Winter Garden, Winter Haven, Winter Park, and Winter Springs. All but Winter Beach are in the Orlando vacinity.
Outside of Florida... the village of Winter is located in Wisconsin. The town of Winter Harbor is located in Maine. There's a ghost town in Utah called Winter Quarters. Winter Park is a resort town in Colorado. And Winter Island is an island located in New York State.
Here is an interesting oddity, where a railroad crosses two bridges, from West Virginia into Maryland and back into West Virginia, where the engine and the caboose can be in West Virginia and all the cars in between are in Maryland:
I can't believe I forgot this one: the 80th meridian west -- 80°00'00"W -- passes straight through the middle of downtown Pittsburgh. (Note the longitudinal coordinate in the URL after you click on the link.) In fact, here's a list of specific places that the 80th meridian west passes through in the Pittsburgh MSA.
which, btw, lies on a slightly more eastern latitude than Miami
(sorry if that one was already mentioned)
It's a shorter drive from the Los Angeles City Hall to the Santa Ana City Hall, the county seat of a neighboring county, than to the Chatsworth Reservoir, which is within the L.A. city limits.
The two closest county court houses I can find in the same state are the 4.2 miles between the Calhoun County courthouse in Blountstown Florida and the Liberty County courthouse in Bristol Florida. They are in different time zones, too.
There are probably a number of closer ones in different states, like the ones in Columbus GA and Phenix City AL, which are only one mile apart. But those adjacent cities are, by necessity, in different counties.
Oh, here's another one. Only 3.0 miles from the Hughes Co. CH in Pierre SD to the Stanley Co CH in Fort Pierre. They are also in different time zones, but informally observe the same time.
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