I went to school with a girl who’s house stradled 2 different school districts. In order to go to our school her parents had to claim their dining room was actually her bedroom.
In one case the state is Rhode Island. I’m not sure about the other one, it’s in a worse position because of changes to the state border, but that property is mostly in Massachusetts. It was originally in Rhode Island but a change to the border was finalized in the last half century or so, and I think all deeds were settled at that point. The first one goes back to colonial days, don’t know many details, but they’ll tell you that they’re definitely Rhode Islanders.
There’s actually a problem where people don’t know what state they reside in. People live in some old family homes and didn’t keep track of the border changes and property resolutions over time. Then they end up trying to register a car or vote in the wrong state, or end up paying extra to lawyers when they try to sell the property.
Anyway, we always blame Massachusetts.
The Downstream Casino Resortis located in Oklahoma, with its parking lot in Kansas and its entrance in Missouri. I’m guessing one of the ways it gets around tax problems is by being owned by the Quapaw tribe.
I recall seeing a definitive answer to this question in an RE law coursebook; there are a series of tests as to which jurisdiction has sway over the property. From my best memory:
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[li]By agreement; one jurisdiction can cede its rights to the other.[/li][li]By proportion of land; the jurisdiction with the greater proportion has rights.[/li][li]By location of the building; building side has rights.[/li][li]By location of the larger portion of the building;[/li][li]By location of the main entryway of the building;[/li][li]By location of main entry to the property;[/li][/ol]
All of which have been mentioned and make some sense. The one that threw me was a final, hair-splitting one regarding a residence with muddled location: it can be determined by the location of the master bedroom, or, if that’s split, by the location of the master bedroom bed, or, if that’s split, by the normal location of the master’s head while sleeping.
Not at 4 corners it isnt… 
*if the actual 4 corners area wasn’t a park…
DON’T even try to get a mortgage on that property!
~VOW
In the US, deeds are not issued by states, but they are recorded in the county where the property is located. And any property (such as the typical house lot) created by recording a plat could not straddle a state line, nor even a county line, because the plat is the legal recordation of boundaries of various lots within a particular county.
In the US, with the exception of something predating creation of the states, such as Yellowstone National Park or the Navajo Indian Reservation, I don’t believe a single deed would ever describe property lying in more than one state. Buildings, of course, do straddle the line. Here, for example, is the parcel in Washoe County, Nevada, on which is built part of the Cal-Neva.
