Actually the western border of Colorado takes a short jog somewhere near the middle. Surveyors started at the north and south, and when they were supposed to meet in the middle, they were a few miles apart. So they drew a diagonal line to connect the border.
I think that’s the story from “How the States Got Their Shapes.”
I was having a hard time believing this one, so I opened up Google Earth Pro and drew a circle centred on the North Pole to the southern most point of Canada (which handily has a blue “i” marker), the south tip of Pelee Island.
I actually make it 27 states, with there being an approximately 1 mile wide sliver of Indiana just creeping in.
Yes. That’s because Gondwana (Africa and South America, in this case) began to split apart several tens of millions of years after North America began to split from Gondwana and Eurasia.
27 is correct! In depth analysis as to why NJ is not one of them is here: https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2017/08/10/us-states-north-of-canada/
According to that blog post, Alaska is actually north of Washington state, even though most maps show it to be somewhere south of California!
How could they get that so wrong :eek:
I recently heard about Lake Cerknica, which is intermittent.
And Hawaii is just a little south of New Orleans. 
I work on the Ohio River. There’s plenty of these things. A few years ago the Wabash cut off a big chunk of Indiana. Hard to tell where the border is here!
It looks like Ellis Park Racing is in Evansville, IN but it’s actually in Kentucky.
I have a map on the wall that clearly shows this. I’ve owned it for at least 6 years. The Ohio River Basin also includes Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and New York.
That’s one of them. The other is not too far to the north.
I’d love to see your map. Does it show this location?
That bit of Pickens Co SC that drains into the Mississippi.
here’s a link to a better map than the link above: This bit of South Carolina drains into the Mississippi - Album on Imgur
That’s what it shows. It has the Ohio River basin as the main boundary. I just assumed that bit of S.Carolina was adjacent to Tennessee. Didn’t realize it was N. Carolina! Amazing what you notice when you stop and look closely!
This detached garage and the house it belongs to are in two different counties.
Some of these garages and the houses they belong to are in two different countries.
I had a patron once come in to apply for a library card, but based on a cursory examination of her street address, she lived in the next county over. Long story short: the county line went right through the lot her house was on. Since I could verify that property taxes on her lot did indeed get paid to our county, I issued the card. Put a great big ol’ note on it, too, to keep anyone in the future to from too-hastily trying to charge her an out-of-county fee.
I have to hurt you for that one.
/slap
And when the Rio Grande changes course, it can lead to major international boarder disputes.
Definitely a matter of opinion. Mavericks is west of Reno.
All the best SoCal spots, sure.
I will see TV shows set in places like Seattle where someone will say something like “I’m going to New Hampshire (or Vermont) to see my family.” or some such.
Both of those states are completely south of Washington. Ditto N. Dakota and good sized chunks of Montana and Minnesota are further north. A little bit of Maine is just barely N. of Seattle.
The NE isn’t as far north as most people think. The SE isn’t as far east*. S. CA isn’t as far west.
I think the surveyors got tired of mapping every twist and turn of the Wabash to establish a border with Illinois, so when they reached Terre Haute they just said “Screw it” and drew a straight line north to Lake Michigan.
Speaking of Lake Michigan, thanks to the reversal of the Chicago and Calumet Rivers, they’re no longer considered part of the Great Lakes Watershed. The remaining watershed in Chicago is barely a mile wide at some points.
Possibly, although I really doubt it. More likely the border was described as being along a specific longitude south from the lake until it hit the Wabash and then followed the river to the Ohio. But the two chunk of Indiana to the west of the Wabash are down in the south, close to Evansville, not near Terre Haute. They were created when the river cut off loops by making short cuts across their bases. This kind of thing happens often on rivers flowing across very flat land and can be accelerated by human activities. It’s the reason why there are all these places like Kaskaskia on the “wrong” side of a river. The borders are fixed, but the river is not.