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What state boundary is formed by the entire length of a river that is only 30 miles long? Oddly, you can paddle a canoe downstream out of either end of this river, and continue along the state boundary, but on a river with a different name.
What state boundary is formed by the entire length of a river that is only 30 miles long? Oddly, you can paddle a canoe downstream out of either end of this river, and continue along the state boundary, but on a river with a different name.
Would that be the Bois de Sioux River, between Minnesota and North Dakota?
Would that be the Bois de Sioux River, between Minnesota and North Dakota?
Exactly. According to the maximum zoom on Mapquest, the Bois de Sioux becomes the Red River of the North right under the railway bridge. According to Wikipedia, that is the point where the Bois de Sioux and the Ottertail merge to form the Red, but I can't find the Ottertail on MapQuest. Mapquest often does not even indicate fairly significant rivers, unless they form a boundary.
I've got a decades-old Hammond atlas handy, and it shows the Otter Tail River originating in Otter Tail Lake in Otter Tail County, MN, and flowing past Fergus Falls to meet the Bois de Sioux at Breckenridge.
I asked a question here ages ago that was never answered correctly: What permanently inhabited island belonging to a US state is the furthest offshore in the Atlantic ocean?
By "offshore" do you mean furthest from the mainland,or furthest from another island? There is a virtual tie, at 17 miles, for Nantucket MA and Matinicus ME. Wikipedia does not state the headland distance. I don't think Dry Tortugas is classified as permanently occupied. but would be farther than the other two. Depending on your definition, Westhampton Beach, on Long Island, is about 37 miles straight line from the nearest point on the mainland.
By "offshore" do you mean furthest from the mainland,or furthest from another island? There is a virtual tie, at 17 miles, for Nantucket MA and Matinicus ME. Wikipedia does not state the headland distance. I don't think Dry Tortugas is classified as permanently occupied. but would be farther than the other two. Depending on your definition, Westhampton Beach, on Long Island, is about 37 miles straight line from the nearest point on the mainland.
Wouldn't Key West be much further from the nearest straight line point on the mainland?
Where is the only non-embassy British soil in the Unitied States?
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