How is that for a trivia question!
Was watching a tv show last night and they made that statement and, sure enough, Carson City, NV really is further west than Los Angeles!
That ought to win you a few bar bets - of course, you would have to happen to have a map of the USA with you when you go into the bar…
“Drive south from Detroit and the first city you enter is…”
(Windsor, Ontario)
There’s also one small town in Georgia that you can drive south (actually south-southeast) into from Florida.
Another question along the same lines is whether you can drive from Maine to Florida, staying inside the U.S. and not taking a ferry or other waterborne conveyance, and not pass through Pennsylvania. (Yes; there’s a bridge between Wilmington, DE and New Jersey.)
also:
Virgina is further west than West Virginia
and:
there was a stupid joke that used to be told in Indiana:
“yep, things are plum upside down in Indee–anner… North Vernon’s in the south of the state, South Bend is in the north, and French Lick ain’t what you think it is neither!!”
also:
Virgina is further west than West Virginia
and:
there was a stupid joke that used to be told in Indiana:
“yep, things are plum upside down in Indee–anner… North Vernon’s in the south of the state, South Bend is in the north, and French Lick ain’t what you think it is neither!!”
When travelling through the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, you are moving East to West, and a good bit North as well.
gee, I can’t wait 'til everyone has their own GPS receiver with which to report all these amazing factoids…
Point Roberts, Wash. can only be reached by land by going through Canada.
Well, of course the capital of Nevada (You can just call it Carson City. We’re cool with that. I’ve checked with everyone out here.) is further west than LA. Geez. You people who aren’t from here sure are easily confused.
That being said, is there any part of the “North” states (Dakota and Carolina) that are further south than the upper border of their southern counterpart?
I’m pretty sure that Cape Fear in the southeast corner of North Carolina is farther south than most of the northern border of South Carolina.
A small part of Kentucky reaches south of the northern border of Tenessee, and there’s an interesting story behind it. The entire border between the two states used to be on one east-west line, and the northern border of Kentucky was the Ohio River. However, after a major earthquake, the Ohio River moved southward a few miles, cutting off the western tip of Kentucky. To fix this, they gave us a small slice of Tenessee.
Excluding Alaska, the northernmost state is Minnesota. It’s true. There’s a little piece of MN that goes into Canada, which is farther north than Maine.
Alaska is also the easternmost state, as well as the westernmost state, inasmuch as the little islands cross 180 degrees longitude (although the International Date Line bends around them).
Yes, there is a portion of NC that juts south and borders Georgia. This is the western tip of North Carolina.
Also, when driving east from Winston-Salem, NC to Raleigh, NC, while in Greensboro one is simultaneously travelling on I-40 East, 85-North, and 421-South. I hate Greensboro.