There are only five that have no part of their State boundaries defined by a river.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_river_borders_of_U.S._states
Don't know without Gooble, but whoever gets the contract for a Idaho State boundary survey of the NELY boundary line is going to make a fortune. ?????ÿ
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The result would probably be similar, but greatly magnified, to the Four Corners debacle
After looking at Idaho I never knew the boundary looked like a wetland mitigation line, always assumed it was a river.?ÿ
The vast majority of the border of Kansas with other States has no connection to a river.?ÿ The northeast corner and easterly side on down the Missouri River to the junction with the Kansas River at Kansas City is the only riverine section.
Noticed how the Delaware/New Jersey border changes from one river bank to the other at a certain latitude.
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That seems confusing, doesn't it.?ÿ The same thing happens with the easterly side of West Virginia with Virginia.?ÿ It's the ridge, not the valley.?ÿ Determining the precise razor blade line between watersheds is as difficult as the thread or bank of a river.
Two would be Alaska and Hawaii.
?ÿOne is correct.?ÿ The other is not, according to the link?ÿ I'm not sure where or what the river is that they are counting.?ÿ You might find the story in the following link entertaining.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20191215-the-little-known-us-canada-border-war
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This metropolis in Alaska appears to be where the border stops being on land and follows what must be a river to Dixon Entrance.
"Noticed how the Delaware/New Jersey border changes from one river bank to the other at a certain latitude.":
Proposal for boumdary location $1,000/hr. no limit.
Locate this boundary.....
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-jersey/nj-delaware-border/
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Did you know you go to Iowa from Nebraska and back with out crossing a river?
Did you know you go to Iowa from Nebraska and back with out crossing a river?
I did know this...have done it a few times in the past year.
This is a great honor - here's what I'll name them:
- Chuck (my dad's nickname)
- Hank (mom's nickname)
- Harpo
- Ellen (a favorite cousin of mine, RIP)
- Hotspur (for whatever river-less boundary state of the 5 is the most arid)
Only signs, letterheads, license plates and laws will need to be rewritten, far as I can tell. Oh, and flags and great seals. Oh yeah, state universities and maybe some sports teams and a couple other trifles. Not really my problem, I've just been tasked with naming them.
@flga-2-2 Several years ago a history buff (non-surveyor) did an excellent job gathering evidence along that line. That kicked a few surveyors into gear and several monuments were rehabilitated and perpetuated. I believe the fellow wrote a book but it's not on any of my shelves at the moment.
That is fantastic.?ÿ Excellent choices, by the way.
Mike's name choices are better than many of the stories of how a certain place or thing was given the name we learned in geography class.?ÿ I read once that Bad Axe, Michigan was so named because a group of surveyors who were forced to seek refuge in an abandoned little shack.?ÿ The only thing in it was a broken axe.?ÿ Thus, the birth of a city.
from Wikipedia:
The city was established in 1905.[5]?ÿThe city's?ÿunusual name[6]?ÿdates to the time of its settlement. While surveying the first state road through the Huron County wilderness in 1861, Rudolph Papst and?ÿGeorge Willis Pack?ÿmade camp at the future site of the city and found a much-used and badly damaged?ÿaxe. At Pack's suggestion, Papst used the name ??Bad Axe Camp? in the minutes of the survey and on a sign he placed along the main trail.[7][8]?ÿThe first post office in Bad Axe was established in 1870.[9]
