Son of a gun! I didn’t know about Phoenix. OK, there are THREE such capitals.
Generally, the elevation listed is that of the airport. In Juneau’s case, it’s 16 feet, even though the town sits on the water.
Which now-non-capital city was capital of its state for the shortest period of time?
Chillicothe was the capital of Ohio for three periods: 1803-1809, 1812-1816, and for one day, on the bicentennial of the state, March 1, 2003. (I was in Chillicothe on the last of those occasions.) I doubt if a city has been state capital for less than a day.
I guess I was thinking in total, as I hadn’t considered the possibility that a state would bounce around its capital like that. And the March 1, 2003 thing might have been “official” but hardly practical. So really, Chillicothe was the capital for around 9 years total. What city was capital from 1809-1812? That could be the winner.
A close contender is Guthrie, Oklahoma. It was the first state capital from statehood in 1907 through 1911, about four years.
Chicago’s not the capital of any state, though.
You may need to change that to the only capitol without a cupola. There is no dome on the Ohio capitol. There also no dome on Oregon’s as noted in garygnu’s link, and the dome atop the capitol in Lincoln Nebraska is almost lost atop the early 20th century skscraper on which it sits.
Lansing, MI is the capital closest to the greatest number of Great Lakes.
Zanesville.
The sources I found gave them as being higher in elevation. Maybe it’s just wherever the plaque is.
There seems to be no dome on North Dakota’s Capitol.
Which one? Both?
Which is also the one former Ohio capital with a Y-bridge!
In terms of size (area as opposed to population), I believe Oklahoma City might have the honor of being the “largest” capital city. I’m not 100% sure of this, but I believe Oklahoma City is the largest city in the United States. (I think some sources claim America’s largest city is Jacksonville, Florida but since that is not a state capital, it seems Oklahoma City gets that #1 capital city honor).
Yes. And all other O’s in the Hawaiian language.
As someone already mentioned, Baltimore isn’t the capital, Annapolis is. Maybe that city’s superlative is “least superlative”. Because depending on how strict you want to be, I-97 doesn’t pass through the city proper, it connects to another highway on the outskirts of town:
Map.
err, yeah. I was just …testing you. Yeah, that’s it.
hangs head in shame because, dammit, he **knows **all of the state capitals!
And Zeldar mentioned in post #39 that Baltimore is often confused as a state capital. 
Luckily we Dopers don’t get confused about that.
Now that I think of it, wouldn’t the state capital with the largest population be New York, New York? 
Only if they didn’t hide the capitol up in Albany.
Yeah, yeah. Whoooosh.
Can Tallahassee be the capitol with the least number of people able to count? 
It’s pretty darn far from the geographic center of the state too. It’s also completely out of touch from the rest of the state. Has the state government as well as FSU there so I think the number of non-government jobs has to max out at around 3. It’s also pretty darn close to Georgia/Alabama.
The capitol of New York is not New York City, it’s Albany, FWIW
And OMG, Madison sounds like such a cool place! Who knew things could be that nifty in Wisconsin.
Can Montana get an award for the least mentioned capitol? Helena? Des Moines should get an award for having all inhabitants mention it’s name in this thread.
Yes as tomndebb correctly surmised it was a whoosh. (Hence the smart aleck big grin). Perhaps we should have a whoosh smilie?
Anyway, sorry for the whoosh Auntbeast.