Ohio and North Carolina are at daggers drawn over who gets to claim the Wright Brothers’ legacy on their license plates. Ohio claims to be the “Birthplace of Aviation” since the Wrights had their workshop there, and North Carolina claims to be “First in Flight” because of Kitty Hawk.
Bloodshed to date has been minimal.
Connecticut and Massachusetts had a colonial border dispute that resulted in the “Southwick Jog”, which is that little notch taken out of the Connecticut/Massachusetts border.
What about disputes over casinos? Council Bluffs, Iowa (56,000) has riverboat casinos across the river from no-casino Omaha, Nebraska (400,000). I’m sure its just a coincidence, though.
Those were the exact events I was thinking of when I opened this thread, but I’d forgotten the details. Thanks!
Another Colonial Dispute Maryland vs Virgina -
In the museum atop lookout mountain in Colorado (where BB is burried) there is a photo of an old CO national guard light tank (light tank may be giving the contraption too much credit) parked at the gravesite.
Not sure if it was a stunt or if CO really thought those crafty Wyoming guys would really
try to steal the body.
That’s nothing. Kentucky and Missouri argue over where Daniel Boone is buried!
Kansas and Colorado have been arguing over who gets how much of the Arkansas River for over a century.
Georgia, Florida and Alabama are currently embroiled in a dispute over water. Specifically, Alabama and Florida think rapidly-growing Atlanta is taking too much water out of the Chattahoochee River.
So far, the battle is being fought in court, but if Sonny Perdue activates the militia, I guess I’ll have to go and shoot me some Alabamians. They can have my tap water when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
wasn’t there something recently about the taxing of wine (etc) from out of state?
Brian
Big rivers change course now and then, and state borders defined by where the river was at the time of the original agreement sometimes end up with a piece of one state on the other side of the present day river.
There are now two legal horse race tracks with legal betting in Indiana. Before it was legal, though, Hoosiers could play the ponies without crossing the Ohio River. Ellis Park was built on a sliver of Kentucky on the Indiana side, near Evansville.
States usually draw the border down the middle of the border river. Often, anglers may fiish the whole width of the river with a license from either state. If a fisherman docks for lunch or gas on the other bank, he’d better have both licenses. I wonder, though…if a fella has Indiana and Ohio licenses, and he catches a record catfish, will it be a record in both states? 
I grew up in a small Lousiana town right on the Texas border. The downtown is right next to the Sabine River which isn’t that big at that spot and forms the Louisiana-Texas border. The only bridge across the river for miles around is there as well. We could literally swim to Texas and sometimes did. We were always told that game wardens were the main law enforcement officers who didn’t have an issues crossing state lines because of issues like this.
That’s because you have to go through at least two other states to go between North Carolina and Ohio. But wait until the Ohio National Guard marches into Kentucky, and North Carolina National Guard marches into Virginia: then you see some serious war up in those Appalachian ridges that keep the opposing states apart.