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The highest points of elevation along Louisiana's flat gulf coast are salt domes known locally as "islands." There are five of them. The tallest and most famous being Avery Island (163 ft.), home of McIlhenny Company, the makers of their famous brand of Tabasco sauce.
Another nearby geographical oddity is Lake Peigneur, which is located adjacent to another one of the five "islands." An underground salt mining operation punched through the bottom of the lake bed, resulting in the deepest lake (by far) in the gulf coast region.
The wettest and driest incorporated communities in Western Washington are both in Clallam County. Sad and pathetic Forks, WA, greatly fictionalized in the Twilight movies is the wettest (107 inches precipitation annually) while Sequim, located in the Olympic Mtn. rain shadow is the driest (16 inches precipitation annually). They are 55 miles apart from each other.
-- Most of the land mass of Charlton County, GA is south of Florida.
-- The capital of Florida, Tallahassee, is 20 miles from the Georgia state line.
-- The Okefenokee Swamp in SE Georgia -- formed when ocean waters got trapped behind sand dunes when the Atlantic Ocean receded -- has no natural inflow; all of the fresh water in it today comes from rainfall or springs. Further, only 10 percent of the swamp drains into the Atlantic. The rest -- 90 percent -- forms the famed Suwanee River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
-- Pine Mountain is an anomoly in West Central Georgia, rising high above the piedmont just NE of Columbus. It's all that remains of the oldest mountain range in North America.
-- The famed sugar-white sands of the Florida panhandle beaches (Panama City, Destin, Fort Walton) is actually QUARTZ CRYSTAL washed down the Chattahoochee River by centuries of erosion from the North Georgia Mountains
The capital of MN is 20 miles from the Wisconsin state line. And I believe the capital of New Jersey is right on the PA state line. And Rhode Island and Delaware are gimmees in this regard!
Pennington Gap, Virginia, is further west than anyplace in West Virginia.
West, Texas, is in east Texas, between Dallas and Waco. George West, Texas, is in south Texas, south of San Antonio.
South Bend is in northern Indiana.
West Bend is in eastern Wisconsin.
North Bend is further south than Bend, Oregon.
The busiest intersection in Traverse City, Michigan, is the corner of West South Airport Road and North US31 South.
North Kansas City and Kansas City North are two different places.
The most redundant place I have ever been is the Iowa Avenue Bridge over the Iowa River in the middle of the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
The most redundant place I have ever been is the Iowa Avenue Bridge over the Iowa River in the middle of the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
Wow, that's worse than the Jersey City Public Library on Jersey Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey!
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