Geographic anomaly: Tiny bits of Michigan that drain into the Mississippi. Share your geo-anomalies

[jtur88]

@mcgato

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.”

The border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba is a series of saw-teeth. Sask was laid out in square-mile sections, but the boundary meridians converge toward the poles’. Thw width of the province is always a whole but decreasing number of miles.

[Skywatcher]

@Kent_Clark

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.

@dtilque

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.

Kent Clark actually got it pretty close. According to this PDF, the border follows the Wabash until a specified point above the town of Vicennes, whereupon it heads due north for Lake Michigan.

[Son_of_a_Rich]

@Musicat

Now can you reconcile this GL watershed map with the state boundaries?

“Lac Vieux Desert” in Wisconsin? I gotta see this. Road trip!

Why “desert”?

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

@Son_of_a_Rich

Why “desert”?

see Post #71

[jtur88]

Pend Orielle County, Washington, and Pondera County, Montana, are pronounced the same.

[wguy123]

@jtur88

Pend Orielle County, Washington, and Pondera County, Montana, are pronounced the same.

And to simplify it as much as possible, Ponderay, ID is also pronounced the same way.

[Pleonast]

@jtur88

Pend Orielle County, Washington, and Pondera County, Montana, are pronounced the same.

Seems plausible until I get to the “m”.

[wguy123]

@Pleonast

Seems plausible until I get to the “m”.

Ba-dum tis!