With the relative success of How far do you live from the nearest state (country) line? started yesterday, I was wondering who lives closest to Geographic center of the contiguous United States which we can take to mean Lebanon, Kansas for the purpose of this thread.
Go to Rand Mcnally Mileage Calculator and type in your hometown and Lebanon, KS to get something like this:
Who’s closest?
1,160 miles straight to the southwest is Tucson, AZ.
2181 miles to me, but I’m not even in the US.
1088.9 miles
(Apollo, PA)
In a straight line, or over the curved surface of the earth? 
It knows nothing of Toronto, Ontario.
950.4 Miles
13 hrs 25 min
[Dearborn, MI]
225 miles.
237 for me.
The mileage to beat!
590 miles east.
Mileage: 1568.8 miles
Time: 21 hrs 32 min
Berkeley, CA
Bummer. I haven’t found an online calculator that does Toronto directly, but you can use the Toronto-Kansas City mileage of 1031 (from my Rand McNally Road Atlas) and add that to
for an approximate 1285 miles.
The directions on Google Maps says 1187 miles, but that’s not really as the crow flies,
Of course, it’s not much farther for me than it is Zeldar, but it’s 843.61 miles from Lebanon, TN to Lebanon, KS.
I ended up using YYC (Calgary Airport) to get a reading - 1401.2 miles, 22 hrs 8 min.
From my hometown of LaGrange, GA to Lebanon, KS it’s
1097.3 miles
17 hrs. 28 mins.
From Leesburg, GA where I live now to Lebanon, KS it’s
1169 miles
19 hrs. 10 mins.
Mileage
362.2 miles
Time
5 hrs 24 min
Some of these (maybe all) can’t be right!
1670.8 miles her in South Florida.
It’s hard to get further away and still be in the continental 48.
…waiting for someone from Miami or the Keys to stop by.
-D/a