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I think you misunderstood the question -- it wasn't just about finding a city that touches 2 states, obviously there are many plenty of municipalities that fit the bill and surely many cities. Weirton touches a state (OH) at its western end and another state (PA) at its eastern end (OP could have added that Weirton "touches" its own state, WV, to the North and South). Almost all other cities touching 2 states do so in the same general direction or in an L-shape of 2 adjacent cardinal points (you gave Memphis as an example), not opposite cardinal points as in Weirton.
Barney,
thanks for verifying what I was not intelligent enough to write myself. This was precisely the criteria. The geographical premise wss based on cardinality.
I think you misunderstood the question -- it wasn't just about finding a city that touches 2 states, obviously there are many plenty of municipalities that fit the bill and surely many cities. Weirton touches a state (OH) at its western end and another state (PA) at its eastern end (OP could have added that Weirton "touches" its own state, WV, to the North and South). Almost all other cities touching 2 states do so in the same general direction or in an L-shape of 2 adjacent cardinal points (you gave Memphis as an example), not opposite cardinal points as in Weirton.
Another oddity related to Weriton. Just outside city limits, in Paris, Pennsylvania, the main road through town is named Steubenville Pike. Yes, Steubenville Pike is the road to Steubenville, Ohio, but it goes through West Virginia before it gets there.
By the way, my response to the Weriton question above was not challenging its uniqueness, but only amplifying with additional examples in a similar category.
Another oddity related to Weriton. Just outside city limits, in Paris, Pennsylvania, the main road through town is named Steubenville Pike. Yes, Steubenville Pike is the road to Steubenville, Ohio, but it goes through West Virginia before it gets there.
Yep -- actually, Steuben St. starts just west of downtown Pittsburgh and then becomes Steubenville Pike in Crafton (inner-ring suburb of the 'burgh). Shows you how Steubenville, a small town by today's standards, is historically important in the Upper Ohio valley. Weirton's boom was more recent (20th century).
The cities of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Colorado Springs, Reno, Sacramento, and San Francisco would all lie south of the Mason-Dixon Line if extended due west from Pennsylvania.
West Virginia's northernmost point is at the same latitude of New York City.
Illinois's southernmost point is at the same latitude of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Also, I just verified this: in addition to Illinois's southernmost point being a shade south of the northern AZ/NM/OK border, it's northern border is at 42° 30'. The southern border of South Dakota, essentially a peninsula in the SE corner of the state, extends south of this line (This area is a golf course with a private community). So, technically, Illinois, at its extreme, is north of South Dakota, and south of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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