Nah, I grew up on a Wyoming ranch, we love kiwis. Had crews come up for shearing and cattle drives, those guys were great. I thought I was hot shit as an all state football guy, it took about five minutes of rugby to quickly regain humility. Their thighs are as big as our chests it seemed like. They’re hilarious humor wise. Kiwis rule.
Also, in Kentucky. There is a small area at the very western tip of the state where it is cut off from the rest of the state. It is surrounded by Missouri and the Mississippi River but only accessible through Tennessee. It's called the Kentucky Bend
It became adjacent to Missouri because the river changed its path and started flowing between the bend and the rest of Kentucky, if I remember correctly.
There’s another example of this in the Omaha metro: the Missouri River changed course, so Carter Lake, IA is on the west side of the river. The Omaha airport is just northeast of Carter Lake, but the street that leads to the airport actually goes right through the town.
I love zooming in and seeing the numerous spots where state borders are no longer defined by the current path of the Mississippi creating those little pockets of a state no longer connected to the rest of the state. Most aren’t as prominent as the Kentucky Bend, but it really shows how much a river’s path can continue to change over time.
As a former truck driver, who has driven many times drive west acroos I80, once you cross the Mississippi River, the traffic gets much lighter. I have driven across Wyoming with not seeing a vehicle going the opposite way for 2 or more hours.
As someone who has lived just minutes away from Lake Michigan their entire life, it always throws me off when I'm out of town, and I start talking about the Great Lakes. It's easy to forget that a lot of people have never seen a lake that big, but it's just normal to me.
The coastal temperatures created by the pacific are one of my favorite phenomena. I grew up along the I5 corridor for a long time and one week of the summer we would always get temperatures over 100. When that happened my family would drive from our town to the coast (1.5 hour drive) and no joke the temperature dropped 40 degrees because of the pacific ocean
You should do a video on the sandhills in the northwest Nebraska. A very large region of sand dunes, but not considered a desert because it gets just enough rain to not be qualified as one. But it is at the intersection of 7 or 8 ecological areas, and has unique alkaline lakes. It sits over a huge aquifer as well, and contains the only man-made national forest in the country.
I love your videos, Geoff. However, as a geography teacher it really bothers me that you show Earth spinning clockwise! That’s incorrect and gives people the wrong idea about Earth’s rotation.
Sort of related to fact number 2, but the distance from Eastern Canada to Vancouver is greater than the distance from Eastern Canada to Africa. Really puts Canada's vast size into perspective.
Wyoming isn't the only state where cows outnumber people. South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma also have more cows than people.
@@scamp7887 Vermont should be on his list actually since he phrased it as more cows, but I think he mistakenly pulled a list of CATTLE and not all types of cows (since cattle generally only refers to cows raised for meat in mind and dairy cows are the vast majority of cows in Vermont). Although it is possible that by this point Vermont might have slipped below the 1:1 ratio as the amount of small dairy farms has been in sharp decline for the last 25 years in that state.
What about the Continental Divide? Minnesota has three continental divides: The Rainy River flows to the east, to Lake Superior. The Mississippi River flows south to the Gulf of Mexico The Red River of the North flows north to Hudson Bay. The Wild Rice River, a tributary of The Red River, flows west to The Red. Unique
What about the Continental Divide Basin in Wyoming? Where the water doesn't drain into the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. However, with that area of Wyoming being a high desert, the water and snow that does fall there, either evaporates or seeps into the ground. There are a few small lakes, plus alkali basins and sand dunes. There are many hiking trails in the basin and it is a test for avid hikers. Heat, lack of shade, wind, and only a few areas to get water, make it a difficult journey.
I live in New Zealand, with its two main islands, North and South Islands, separated by the Cook Strait. Australia, our nearest neighbor, is 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. The islands were created just 23 million years ago when land was thrust out of the ocean by volcanic forces. New Zealand has more than 50 volcanoes, some of which are still active today. Sharp snowy peaks, rocky shores, and pastures create a majestic landscape. The South Island is home to the highest mountain peak in New Zealand, Mount Cook, which rises to 12,316 feet (3,754 meters) and is called "Cloud Piercer" by the Maori people. Oh yeah, we used to have more sheep than people.
Cloud Piercer is a much cooler name than Mt. Cook. That's par for the course with pretty much everything Cook slapped his name on. Cook Inlet's Dena'ina name, Tikahtnu, translates to Big Water River, named for its tidal bore, which is one of the largest and longest in the world. It's world famous with surfers. Tikahtnu is a better name in every possible way. I think Alaska should petition the federal government to officially change Cook Inlet's name to Tikahtnu Inlet on all the maps. Why are we letting a guy whose claim to fame is getting FAFO'ed in Hawaii name stuff after himself anyway?
In addition to having been formed by earthquakes causing the Mississippi River to flow backwards, Reelfoot Lake also has the distinction of being the ONLY natural lake in the state of Tennessee. All the others are man-made.
I find it funny how right after saying that Alaska had the easternmost part of the US, you said that in Maine you could find the easternmost part of the US
Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is known for the Crater of Diamonds State Park, where visitors can search for diamonds. Visitors to the park search a 37-acre field, the eroded surface of a volcanic crater, for a variety of rocks, minerals, and gemstones - and any rock or mineral you find is yours to keep.
When looking at the population of east/west U.S., find a graph showing how much land the federal gov't owns compared to the states. You'll see in the west that the federal gov't owns most of the lands, not the states, whereas the eastern states have less federal gov't land ownership.
9:10 I find this very interesting, and that Death Valley is the location of the hottest temperatures recorded on Earth right next to glacier-covered mountains tallest in the contiguous US.
1:16 Africa and Europe are much farther north than you think, just like Venice is on the same latitude as the Canadian capital of Ottawa. I think this gives a pretty good explanation. And for this fact, the reason why Venice, or the rest of Europe, isn't as cold as America is because of the major influence of the Gulf Stream, which significantly warms Western Europe, including Venice, while Ottawa is located in North America where the ocean currents do not provide the same level of temperature moderation; essentially, large bodies of water like the ocean can regulate temperatures more effectively than land, leading to milder climates near coastlines.
Even though Mississippi is considered the worst state in the US, the first heart transplant surgery in the world was performed by Dr. James D. Hardy at the Mississippi Medical Center in 1964. The first nuclear submarine built in the South was created right here in Mississippi. A year after the Civil War ended, women in Columbus decorated the Confederate and Unions soldiers’ graves with flowers in Friendship Cemetery. As a direct result, Americans came to observe Memorial Day to honor the lives and deaths of fallen soldiers. Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. These rules were written at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss.
I recently moved to the state of Wyoming and I discovered a fact that many people who live in Thermopolis Wyoming do not know that East Thermopolis is a separate City. The reason for them being separate is that during prohibition East Thermopolis was wet and Thermopolis was dry. I currently live in East Thermopolis and I researched about the area before I arrived here.
Nevada and Utah are also growing as the Great Basin is being stretched east to west by about 1 in per year 100 years ago Reno and Salt Lake City were 100 inches nearer
Thank you for another very interesting Geography Video.....I always look forward to your videos.....I didn't know about that Rain Forest in Alaska! Old Growth Cedar.....Looked gorgeous.... Anyway, thank you!
Glasgow, Montana is the most isolated town in the contiguous US. The nearest city (defined as a population center of at least 75,000 people) is four and a half hours away. Montana contains the US's only triple divide point, the appropriately named Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park. Snow and rain that fall on this peak have the chance to end up in the Pacific, Atlantic or Arctic Oceans. Speaking of Glacier, it is one of two firsts for national parks in Montana. It is the first international park in the world. Montana is also where three of the four entrances to the first national park, Yellowstone, are located. The north entrance at Gardiner is the only one that's open all year round (barring 500-year floods, of course). Montana no longer has any active volcanoes, but signs of past volcanic activity are still easily seen from Great Falls to Butte. Dikes, laccoliths and volcanic buttes are scattered throughout the region. Our neighbors to the south have a total of five active volcanoes: One in Yellowstone National Park, and four just to the west of that in Idaho, in the Craters of the Moon National Monument area. All of these volcanoes exist due to the Yellowstone hotspot. You read that right; Idaho has more active volcanoes than Wyoming does. The southeastern corner of Montana is closer to Texas than it is to the northwestern corner of Montana. Dillon, Montana is further west than Butte, Montana is. Yet water in Dillon flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while water in Butte flows into the Pacific Ocean. Butte has over 10,000 miles of mining tunnels and shafts underneath it. It is also where the largest superfund site in the US is located. It even has a mining pit (no longer active) that contains a toxic cesspool deadly to most forms of life. Due to this similarity, the pit was named after America's second largest superfund site, the University of California, Berkeley. 😉 Montana's antipode includes much of the Kergulean Plateau in the southern Indian Ocean. There are small islands on this plateau. But in order to dig a hole from Montana to the other side of the earth and come up on land, you'd need to start digging up north of Havre, on the border with Alberta and Saskatchewan. Montana contains part of the only inland temperate rainforest in the world currently. Montana's portion is contained almost entirely within Glacier National Park. You can find the rest of it in Alberta, British Columbia and the Idaho panhandle. Despite the above fact, the majority of Montana is classified as cold steppe, being semi-arid with hot, dry summers and bitterly cold winters.
@@AtarahDerek Not quite. The Red River of the North flows into Lake Winnipeg, which empties into the Nelson River which flows into the Arctic Ocean at Hudson Bay. I'll concede that Montana is the only state lying in the drainage basin of THREE oceans.
Another California fact which people not from there confuse is that "June Gloom" is a Southern California phenomenon. The low clouds and fog in the Bay Area of Northern California peak in July and August due to the inland valley heat acting as a giant vacuum for the cooled and condensed marine air of the California Current. In So. Cal, in contrast, July and August experiences less coastal cloudiness than in May and June.
Love Geoff’s content, can’t stand that his videos have more ads/minute video than anything else I ever try to watch. Pre-vid, post-vid, in-vid. It’s basically a sales pitch + geography facts
Yes, having driven from NY to Expo 86 in Vancouver and back through the US, three weeks and 7000 miles, traffic didn't build up until Chicago, and the remainder of the trip to NY. 😊
Love the video's. Just a bit to add to the Southeast Alaska part where you added the indigenous people, the Haida, you should also add Tlingit. Thank you.
@goegraphybygoeff, I love your channel. Very informative. I wish the music behind your narration wasn't there its destracting. I don't mind the music in between sections, though. Good channel. Just subscribed.
How's this for an interesting fact. North Carolina is not only home to the tallest point in eastern North American, but also the LOWEST (you can still physically walk on) with the Pamlico Sound being an average of 5 feet deep.
Regarding the US-Canadian border, I'm sure you've already addressed the very unusual geographical situation of Point Roberts, WA, in one of your previous videos. The only way to reach this town by land is through Canada. Since the elementary school only consists of grades K through 3rd (according to Wikipedia), "from 4th grade onward, American children must take a 40-minute ride through British Columbia, crossing back into the United States at Blaine, Washington" to go to school.
If you start at the Cumberland Gap in Virginia, it's a shorter drive and distance to Eastern Iowa than it is to Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
@@enzoeclipsed Yes I caught that as well. I don't know what to say about that. He should have given out a qualifier of some type (like on the East East Coast it's the most eastern point), IDK
Tennessee was covered by the ocean long ago. Seashells can be found in the mountains of the Cumberland Gap thousands of feet above sea level and nearly 500 miles from the coast
Fun Fact California's Mojave desert, specifically the county of San Bernardino, is referred to as "The Catagena of Meth" and is the origin of a wide majority of Crystal Meth, or methamphedimine, is produced there. Commonly made in relatively cheap mobile homes and trailers parked in remote plots of land away from prying eyes , the manufacturers are routinely missed in searches as the production is mostly conducted by solo, or small gangs that sell to larger gangs that act as brokers for wholesale volumes. The DEA is symied by special interests inside the federal government that use it for trapping and funding people and projects in CIA schemes and other covert programs. Have a great day!
I'm as much of a geography nerd as anyone, but if I was at a party and someone randomly came up to me and said "did you know Kentucky has the longest cave system in the world?" I'd probably think that I need to find a different party. 😂😂
@@chrisk5651 “Canada”… in quotations? Trying to imply something? Like, not really Canada but a drug-induced figment of the US. So about 1812… over 200 years ago now, Canada didn’t really exist. The White House was burned to the ground by British soldiers. Canada didn’t officially exist prior to 1867.
A fascinating area near me is the "driftless area" going between Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. The terrain is nothing like the surrounding flat land and fertile soil that makes up the midwest. The hilly nature of this region is a result of the land not being glaciated during the most recent glacial phase. Glacial lobes advancing through Wisconsin came from the north east and needed to cross what is now Super. The depth there prevented glacial advance as far as those going south through Minnesota. Definitely is unique in terms of its contrast to all the surrounding land!
01:29 Why do you show a distance from Miami to El Beddouza? You should check the distance from Miami (or a place in Florida closest to Africa) to a place in Africa closest to USA. Juno Beach is about 3950 miles apart from Plage Lamhoune.
The tail end of the Appalachian mountains just might be the St. Francois Mountains in southern Missouri, cut off by the Mississippi River. It's the only case of volcanic rock above the ground in the state.
11:07 there’s actually a large shallow lake that was created by this earthquake near Tiptonville, Tennessee, it’s called Reelfoot Lake and it’s pretty cool actually! Worth a video of it’s own honestly
Alaska is also the most northern state. Shorting the distance to travel via the northern route is obvious on a globe. Classrooms used to have a map that displayed the actual land rather than the Mercator view we get on GPS.
US and Canada share disasters. For example the flooding in lower mainland of BC was caused by a U.S. river. BC dams provide power to Canada and U.S. because the river flows into the U.S..
Bless your heart. You get through telling us that Alaska has the EASTERN most point in the US. Then just a few short seconds later call Quoddy Head Maine as the eastern most point in the US.
The Great Lakes may contain 21 % of the surface water in the world (I assume that doesn't count ice), but Lake Baikal has 22-23 %, more than all of them combined. However, the Great Lakes having so much more surface area and in a less remote place, they're a lot more useful.
Re Mississippi watershed, since Chicago reversed the flow of their river to send Lake Michigan water to the Mississippi River we could add that in as well, giving it a really massive number.
As a New Zealander I don't see what's unusual about having more cattle than people.
And nothing unusual about the number of sheep we have either. :-)
Same goes for Wales
Me the same cause I'm Uruguaian
@@petercrawford3370also home to the largest collection of vecro gloves!! 😂😂😂
Nah, I grew up on a Wyoming ranch, we love kiwis. Had crews come up for shearing and cattle drives, those guys were great. I thought I was hot shit as an all state football guy, it took about five minutes of rugby to quickly regain humility. Their thighs are as big as our chests it seemed like. They’re hilarious humor wise. Kiwis rule.
Also, in Kentucky. There is a small area at the very western tip of the state where it is cut off from the rest of the state. It is surrounded by Missouri and the Mississippi River but only accessible through Tennessee. It's called the Kentucky Bend
It became adjacent to Missouri because the river changed its path and started flowing between the bend and the rest of Kentucky, if I remember correctly.
My father worked one summer on Kentucky Bend for the Corp of Engineers as a deck hand. His father worked on the river his whole.
@chitlitlah I do believe you are correct. It may have even been because of that major earthquake back in the 1800s?
There’s another example of this in the Omaha metro: the Missouri River changed course, so Carter Lake, IA is on the west side of the river. The Omaha airport is just northeast of Carter Lake, but the street that leads to the airport actually goes right through the town.
I love zooming in and seeing the numerous spots where state borders are no longer defined by the current path of the Mississippi creating those little pockets of a state no longer connected to the rest of the state. Most aren’t as prominent as the Kentucky Bend, but it really shows how much a river’s path can continue to change over time.
As a former truck driver, who has driven many times drive west acroos I80, once you cross the Mississippi River, the traffic gets much lighter. I have driven across Wyoming with not seeing a vehicle going the opposite way for 2 or more hours.
@palladini9718 2/3's of the US population lives east of the Mississippi River. So 1/3 of the population lives in 2/3's of the US.
Yup I drove across the upper part of Montana and North Dakota without seeing a car all day.
when i lived in wyoming the pop was less than 380,000-it was too crowded then
As someone who has lived just minutes away from Lake Michigan their entire life, it always throws me off when I'm out of town, and I start talking about the Great Lakes. It's easy to forget that a lot of people have never seen a lake that big, but it's just normal to me.
I went to lake Michigan on Michigan's side hoping I could see the skyscrapers of Chicago. Was a clear and cloudless day and I still couldn't
@chrism3784 Not from that far. I'm on the south side of the lake, so on a clear day, I can see the skyline.
I’ve been fishing so far out in Lake Superior that we we couldn’t see any land. On a fresh water lake!
@@chrism3784 you can see them from the indiana dunes. Pretty cool actually
@@christiansmith2964 I was in St Josephs, then went to New Buffalo, couldn't see in either
The coastal temperatures created by the pacific are one of my favorite phenomena. I grew up along the I5 corridor for a long time and one week of the summer we would always get temperatures over 100. When that happened my family would drive from our town to the coast (1.5 hour drive) and no joke the temperature dropped 40 degrees because of the pacific ocean
You should do a video on the sandhills in the northwest Nebraska. A very large region of sand dunes, but not considered a desert because it gets just enough rain to not be qualified as one. But it is at the intersection of 7 or 8 ecological areas, and has unique alkaline lakes. It sits over a huge aquifer as well, and contains the only man-made national forest in the country.
Yes the sand hills are covered with grass so it doesn’t look like a desert.
Some of the most beautiful scenery in the country for sure.
It also has a huge amount of cranes. Many Sand Hill cranes migrate there.
I love your videos, Geoff. However, as a geography teacher it really bothers me that you show Earth spinning clockwise! That’s incorrect and gives people the wrong idea about Earth’s rotation.
@@economicsonline Nebraska is an awesome beautiful state!
Sort of related to fact number 2, but the distance from Eastern Canada to Vancouver is greater than the distance from Eastern Canada to Africa. Really puts Canada's vast size into perspective.
Also closer to northern South America by like 1000km
Wyoming isn't the only state where cows outnumber people. South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma also have more cows than people.
Lol, wow.
@@graysonricI live in Wyoming and did not know NYS had more cattle. You are right.
@@happygilmore5948 pigs out number people in Washington DC.
@@happygilmore5948 without looking, I wonder if Vermont is close.
@@scamp7887 Vermont should be on his list actually since he phrased it as more cows, but I think he mistakenly pulled a list of CATTLE and not all types of cows (since cattle generally only refers to cows raised for meat in mind and dairy cows are the vast majority of cows in Vermont). Although it is possible that by this point Vermont might have slipped below the 1:1 ratio as the amount of small dairy farms has been in sharp decline for the last 25 years in that state.
Why would you pick the same location in Africa to compare Florida? Shouldn't you pick whatever location in Africa is closest to Florida?
It's because El Beddouza is the shortest distance possible from any US location to Africa, any other 2 points will be further apart.
because that specific point is the closest to the U.S. any other point is farther away due to the curvature of Earth like he explained in the video
@@soundscape26 Cape Verde is much closer to Florida than Morocco
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Because to compare it to any other point in Africa would lack purpose or logic
1:15 - just said that this is not the most Eastern point of the USA in the previous fact.
Exactly. My main forgot lol
Turned the video off at this exact point lmao
Yeah lol
I came here to say as well
His chatGPT generated script couldn't take that into account
What about the Continental Divide?
Minnesota has three continental divides:
The Rainy River flows to the east, to Lake Superior.
The Mississippi River flows south to the Gulf of Mexico
The Red River of the North flows north to Hudson Bay.
The Wild Rice River, a tributary of The Red River, flows west to The Red.
Unique
One could say the same about Triple Divide Peak in Montana and I'm sure there are more.
Typical minnesotan crying for recognition?
What about the Continental Divide Basin in Wyoming? Where the water doesn't drain into the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. However, with that area of Wyoming being a high desert, the water and snow that does fall there, either evaporates or seeps into the ground. There are a few small lakes, plus alkali basins and sand dunes. There are many hiking trails in the basin and it is a test for avid hikers. Heat, lack of shade, wind, and only a few areas to get water, make it a difficult journey.
@@austindenotter19 TF? You have issues, boy.
2:25 you got the east mixed up with the west there lol
@@MadCat9500 Was about to comment this
I was going to say the same... !
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Yah, I was like, what?
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Thanks! Keep up the good work!
Very much appreciated!
This was GREAT, Geoff! Thank you!
I live in New Zealand, with its two main islands, North and South Islands, separated by the Cook Strait. Australia, our nearest neighbor, is 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away.
The islands were created just 23 million years ago when land was thrust out of the ocean by volcanic forces. New Zealand has more than 50 volcanoes, some of which are still active today. Sharp snowy peaks, rocky shores, and pastures create a majestic landscape.
The South Island is home to the highest mountain peak in New Zealand, Mount Cook, which rises to 12,316 feet (3,754 meters) and is called "Cloud Piercer" by the Maori people.
Oh yeah, we used to have more sheep than people.
Cloud Piercer is a much cooler name than Mt. Cook. That's par for the course with pretty much everything Cook slapped his name on. Cook Inlet's Dena'ina name, Tikahtnu, translates to Big Water River, named for its tidal bore, which is one of the largest and longest in the world. It's world famous with surfers. Tikahtnu is a better name in every possible way. I think Alaska should petition the federal government to officially change Cook Inlet's name to Tikahtnu Inlet on all the maps. Why are we letting a guy whose claim to fame is getting FAFO'ed in Hawaii name stuff after himself anyway?
In addition to having been formed by earthquakes causing the Mississippi River to flow backwards, Reelfoot Lake also has the distinction of being the ONLY natural lake in the state of Tennessee. All the others are man-made.
I find it funny how right after saying that Alaska had the easternmost part of the US, you said that in Maine you could find the easternmost part of the US
He forgot the qualifier of “within the continguous United States” in the second fact is all
Alaska is also the northern most state.
I noticed that too 😂
@@ZoneProfessionalGardening yup
Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is known for the Crater of Diamonds State Park, where visitors can search for diamonds. Visitors to the park search a 37-acre field, the eroded surface of a volcanic crater, for a variety of rocks, minerals, and gemstones - and any rock or mineral you find is yours to keep.
When looking at the population of east/west U.S., find a graph showing how much land the federal gov't owns compared to the states. You'll see in the west that the federal gov't owns most of the lands, not the states, whereas the eastern states have less federal gov't land ownership.
that’s because of all the national parks in the west. plus the “secret” military bases.
The New Madrid earthquakes are so much crazier than you could imagine. The historical accounts of the event are great reads.
9:10 I find this very interesting, and that Death Valley is the location of the hottest temperatures recorded on Earth right next to glacier-covered mountains tallest in the contiguous US.
learning more everyday, Thank you Geoff☺
1:16 Africa and Europe are much farther north than you think, just like Venice is on the same latitude as the Canadian capital of Ottawa. I think this gives a pretty good explanation. And for this fact, the reason why Venice, or the rest of Europe, isn't as cold as America is because of the major influence of the Gulf Stream, which significantly warms Western Europe, including Venice, while Ottawa is located in North America where the ocean currents do not provide the same level of temperature moderation; essentially, large bodies of water like the ocean can regulate temperatures more effectively than land, leading to milder climates near coastlines.
Even though Mississippi is considered the worst state in the US, the first heart transplant surgery in the world was performed by Dr. James D. Hardy at the Mississippi Medical Center in 1964. The first nuclear submarine built in the South was created right here in Mississippi. A year after the Civil War ended, women in Columbus decorated the Confederate and Unions soldiers’ graves with flowers in Friendship Cemetery. As a direct result, Americans came to observe Memorial Day to honor the lives and deaths of fallen soldiers. Parliamentary procedures are the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. These rules were written at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss.
I recently moved to the state of Wyoming and I discovered a fact that many people who live in Thermopolis Wyoming do not know that East Thermopolis is a separate City. The reason for them being separate is that during prohibition East Thermopolis was wet and Thermopolis was dry. I currently live in East Thermopolis and I researched about the area before I arrived here.
Nevada and Utah are also growing as the Great Basin is being stretched east to west by about 1 in per year
100 years ago Reno and Salt Lake City were 100 inches nearer
The second fact will definitely upset the flat-earthers 😂😂😂
Oh, my stupid @$$ husband had an "explanation"! It was stupid too
@@jermainec2462 which would start a debate at family dinner meeting 🤣
@Vishesh.Trivedi exactly 😆
Who cares if the Flattards get upset.
The only thing flat-earthers fear is sphere itself…
1:14 Quoddy Head, Maine is not the easternmost point in the United States, it's the Aleutian Islands of Alaska
Contiguous
Very interesting facts! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for another very interesting Geography Video.....I always look forward to your videos.....I didn't know about that Rain Forest in Alaska! Old Growth Cedar.....Looked gorgeous.... Anyway, thank you!
Good video. Thanks for teaching.
Glasgow, Montana is the most isolated town in the contiguous US. The nearest city (defined as a population center of at least 75,000 people) is four and a half hours away.
Montana contains the US's only triple divide point, the appropriately named Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park. Snow and rain that fall on this peak have the chance to end up in the Pacific, Atlantic or Arctic Oceans.
Speaking of Glacier, it is one of two firsts for national parks in Montana. It is the first international park in the world. Montana is also where three of the four entrances to the first national park, Yellowstone, are located. The north entrance at Gardiner is the only one that's open all year round (barring 500-year floods, of course).
Montana no longer has any active volcanoes, but signs of past volcanic activity are still easily seen from Great Falls to Butte. Dikes, laccoliths and volcanic buttes are scattered throughout the region. Our neighbors to the south have a total of five active volcanoes: One in Yellowstone National Park, and four just to the west of that in Idaho, in the Craters of the Moon National Monument area. All of these volcanoes exist due to the Yellowstone hotspot. You read that right; Idaho has more active volcanoes than Wyoming does.
The southeastern corner of Montana is closer to Texas than it is to the northwestern corner of Montana.
Dillon, Montana is further west than Butte, Montana is. Yet water in Dillon flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while water in Butte flows into the Pacific Ocean.
Butte has over 10,000 miles of mining tunnels and shafts underneath it. It is also where the largest superfund site in the US is located. It even has a mining pit (no longer active) that contains a toxic cesspool deadly to most forms of life. Due to this similarity, the pit was named after America's second largest superfund site, the University of California, Berkeley. 😉
Montana's antipode includes much of the Kergulean Plateau in the southern Indian Ocean. There are small islands on this plateau. But in order to dig a hole from Montana to the other side of the earth and come up on land, you'd need to start digging up north of Havre, on the border with Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Montana contains part of the only inland temperate rainforest in the world currently. Montana's portion is contained almost entirely within Glacier National Park. You can find the rest of it in Alberta, British Columbia and the Idaho panhandle.
Despite the above fact, the majority of Montana is classified as cold steppe, being semi-arid with hot, dry summers and bitterly cold winters.
Very interesting - thank you.
Wrong. Minnesota has a triple divide point. Thanks for playing. (Pennsylvania has one too)
@@kimm6589 Minnesota's water all flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Montana's water flows into three different oceans.
If you're going to write a book, write a book.
@@AtarahDerek Not quite. The Red River of the North flows into Lake Winnipeg, which empties into the Nelson River which flows into the Arctic Ocean at Hudson Bay. I'll concede that Montana is the only state lying in the drainage basin of THREE oceans.
Another California fact which people not from there confuse is that "June Gloom" is a Southern California phenomenon. The low clouds and fog in the Bay Area of Northern California peak in July and August due to the inland valley heat acting as a giant vacuum for the cooled and condensed marine air of the California Current. In So. Cal, in contrast, July and August experiences less coastal cloudiness than in May and June.
Love your channel!
Watching 15 geography facts about the US from 15 Hours ago with 15%of Huel ! - Perfect time!
Love Geoff’s content, can’t stand that his videos have more ads/minute video than anything else I ever try to watch. Pre-vid, post-vid, in-vid. It’s basically a sales pitch + geography facts
The 'content' has to be paid for somehow. Every viewer on youtube somehow thinks other people's work should be done for free....
Haven't seen an ad on youtube in decades ... Get a free adblocker. Game changer.
Yes, having driven from NY to
Expo 86 in Vancouver and back through the US, three weeks and 7000 miles, traffic didn't build up until Chicago,
and the remainder of the trip to NY. 😊
Yeah I've driven cross country where I didn't hit traffic until I got to New York.
But the international date line bends around the Allutians to keep All of Alaska on the same day.
San Jose has had a bigger population than San Francisco since the 1990s, and has always had more square miles (180 sq m v 47 sq m).
I think Louisiana is growing also because the mississippi river delta .
So much sediment is being choked off or diverted from the delta, it's actually shrinking.
Mistake: the cattle in Wyoming should be called bovine, not cows. Cows are the female of several species, including bovines
Former truck driver here, I can attest to all the cattle in Wyoming. I've run into more than a few Wyoming traffic jams...
@@Zerobar78. New meaning to cattle drive; they do have cattle cars ....js
Love the video's. Just a bit to add to the Southeast Alaska part where you added the indigenous people, the Haida, you should also add Tlingit. Thank you.
Mammoth cave shout out! l live 20 miles away and have been countless times and the marvel of this cave system is breath taking!
Those of us here in North Mississippi would likely NOT fare well if the New Madrid fault experiences major seismic activity!
The West of the US is quite similar to Australia in many ways
Lol the easter most state is Alaska, the next fact the closet state to Africa is the eastern most state Maine
this was really interesting. thanks geoff
I love your video's. They are very well done and very informative .
Thanks to heavy sediment in the Mississippi River, Louisiana is actually growing in size as silt deposits add extra coastline to the river delta.
Then you get a cat5 hurricane and it's gone.
8:04 i think there is one such rainforest remaining in small pockets of north-western Scotland as well
@goegraphybygoeff, I love your channel. Very informative. I wish the music behind your narration wasn't there its destracting. I don't mind the music in between sections, though. Good channel. Just subscribed.
Very Interesting
Thank YOU
How's this for an interesting fact. North Carolina is not only home to the tallest point in eastern North American, but also the LOWEST (you can still physically walk on) with the Pamlico Sound being an average of 5 feet deep.
Another good one I’ve discovered (as I drive this often), the southern tip of Illinois is further south than AZ and NM north border.
0:48 “Alaska is the easternmost US state” 1:14 “quoddy head, the eastern most point in the US” hmmm seems like a contradiction…
We really do have one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
I can’t wait to “wow” my friends and acquaintances with all these facts!!!
I used to love digging up sea shells out of the ground in Eastern Oregon. Ancient Ice age lakes covered the high desert lands.
Regarding the US-Canadian border, I'm sure you've already addressed the very unusual geographical situation of Point Roberts, WA, in one of your previous videos. The only way to reach this town by land is through Canada. Since the elementary school only consists of grades K through 3rd (according to Wikipedia), "from 4th grade onward, American children must take a 40-minute ride through British Columbia, crossing back into the United States at Blaine, Washington" to go to school.
Do they need a passport to get to school?
The best channel so far 💯
If you start at the Cumberland Gap in Virginia, it's a shorter drive and distance to Eastern Iowa than it is to Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Bro tells us Alaska is eastern most state in the us and then immediately tells us Maine is the eastern most state in the next point
@@enzoeclipsed Yes I caught that as well. I don't know what to say about that. He should have given out a qualifier of some type (like on the East East Coast it's the most eastern point), IDK
@@susanw8471 Like Alaska has the eastern most point of the entire US. But Maine has the eastern most in the contiguous US.
Maine is the eastern most whole state. Only a small piece of Alaska is east.
Technically he said Maine is the closest state to Africa. Not furthest east.
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Tennessee was covered by the ocean long ago. Seashells can be found in the mountains of the Cumberland Gap thousands of feet above sea level and nearly 500 miles from the coast
Love geography vids ❤🌎👍🏾
Fun Fact California's Mojave desert, specifically the county of San Bernardino, is referred to as "The Catagena of Meth" and is the origin of a wide majority of Crystal Meth, or methamphedimine, is produced there. Commonly made in relatively cheap mobile homes and trailers parked in remote plots of land away from prying eyes , the manufacturers are routinely missed in searches as the production is mostly conducted by solo, or small gangs that sell to larger gangs that act as brokers for wholesale volumes. The DEA is symied by special interests inside the federal government that use it for trapping and funding people and projects in CIA schemes and other covert programs. Have a great day!
@roblowert3188 OMFG...purchase a dictionary already..
I'm as much of a geography nerd as anyone, but if I was at a party and someone randomly came up to me and said "did you know Kentucky has the longest cave system in the world?" I'd probably think that I need to find a different party. 😂😂
Huh? I don't get it. Am I missing something?
@@jeremiahallyn4603 At the beginning of the video he says you can impress your friends with these facts at your next party. Just a joke.
Suggest playing the party game “Trivial Pursuit”.
This was incredible!
Yes, very well done!
The relationship between “Canada” and the United States was not always good especially during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
@@chrisk5651 “Canada”… in quotations? Trying to imply something? Like, not really Canada but a drug-induced figment of the US.
So about 1812… over 200 years ago now, Canada didn’t really exist. The White House was burned to the ground by British soldiers. Canada didn’t officially exist prior to 1867.
Mere tiffs in a long romance.
A fascinating area near me is the "driftless area" going between Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. The terrain is nothing like the surrounding flat land and fertile soil that makes up the midwest. The hilly nature of this region is a result of the land not being glaciated during the most recent glacial phase. Glacial lobes advancing through Wisconsin came from the north east and needed to cross what is now Super. The depth there prevented glacial advance as far as those going south through Minnesota. Definitely is unique in terms of its contrast to all the surrounding land!
01:29 Why do you show a distance from Miami to El Beddouza? You should check the distance from Miami (or a place in Florida closest to Africa) to a place in Africa closest to USA.
Juno Beach is about 3950 miles apart from Plage Lamhoune.
The tail end of the Appalachian mountains just might be the St. Francois Mountains in southern Missouri, cut off by the Mississippi River. It's the only case of volcanic rock above the ground in the state.
How about some info on the Garbage Island near Cali?
It is called "Los Angeles".
#2: Spurious! How close is Florida to the nearest point in Africa (probably the Cape Verde Islands)?
I was surpised to learn in this video that the US-Canada border is longer than the China-Siberia border.
I find the US-Canada border to be the longest, even to the naked eye
Siberia is enormous, but much of it borders Kazakhstan and Mongolia; the border with China is mostly only the eastern third (roughly) of it.
By Siberia you mean Russia?
There's also Mongolia in the middle that breaks it up.
Holy wow! Love to learn fascinating stuff! Abigail, in beautiful New Hampshire ❤
The creation of Long Island, NY is interesting. Lake Ronkonkoma is a actually a Kettle.
Some states haven't specific shapes, which can be attributed to economic conditions.
11:07 there’s actually a large shallow lake that was created by this earthquake near Tiptonville, Tennessee, it’s called Reelfoot Lake and it’s pretty cool actually! Worth a video of it’s own honestly
Alaska is also the most northern state. Shorting the distance to travel via the northern route is obvious on a globe. Classrooms used to have a map that displayed the actual land rather than the Mercator view we get on GPS.
Fascinating!👍
As you and I seem to like geography at around the same level, you don't surprise me much.
11 Finger lakes- upstate NY- 10 slender fingers, Keuka Lake shaped like a Y
I love geography facts!
Enriching information.
Additional one, Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are defined by rivers.
and meth
I've heard that fact before as well 👍
There is a rain forest (HoH) in Washington state and it's not far from a town where some Hollywood films were filmed.
First piece of trivia is already 🔥
Washington has the lowest elevation glacier in the lower 48 states, Big Four ice caves.
US and Canada share disasters. For example the flooding in lower mainland of BC was caused by a U.S. river. BC dams provide power to Canada and U.S. because the river flows into the U.S..
Colorado's border with Utah is also not straight, Utah goes slightly into Colorado of the lower half of their respective borders
Bless your heart. You get through telling us that Alaska has the EASTERN most point in the US. Then just a few short seconds later call Quoddy Head Maine as the eastern most point in the US.
Here's a fun fact. In Kentucky, we have more barrels of bourbon than people.
You said Alaska is the eastern most state then immediately said Maine was the eastern most state?
What about the Cascadian rainforest in northern California, Oregon and Washington
The Great Lakes may contain 21 % of the surface water in the world (I assume that doesn't count ice), but Lake Baikal has 22-23 %, more than all of them combined. However, the Great Lakes having so much more surface area and in a less remote place, they're a lot more useful.
Re Mississippi watershed, since Chicago reversed the flow of their river to send Lake Michigan water to the Mississippi River we could add that in as well, giving it a really massive number.
Awesome video great facts . From Chicago they reversed our river.
New Madrid is pronounced MADrid
this dude can't pronounce hoosier
@@Perry2186who
Exactly
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