I am a bit surprised Yukon doesn't have more people. The weather there isn't as harsh as places farther east and it does have mountains. It's also next to Alaska.
Reminds me of the TV show Community and the "The north cafeteria, named after Admiral William North is located in the western portion of East hall, gateway to the western half of North Hall. Which is named... not after William North but for it's position above the south wall."
Really like your videos. An interesting fact about Seattle is that they measure the rainfall at the airport. The airport was built where it is for two reasons. First, it split two major cities. Second, it was a fairly "dry" place. If you go fifteen miles to the east, the average rainfall jumps to over 50".
Another note about Crater Lake is that there's no river feeding it. It's all rain and snow melt. With no sediment coming or going, you get that clear blue body of water. Fun vid!
I'm surprised that it doesn't evaporate more than it does. I guess the air is just saturated enough with water all the time to stop significant drops in water.
Also, Salt Lake in Minnesota is the only salt lake between Utah and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s 25% of the salinity of the ocean and attracts unique birds due to its salt nature. Also, Minnesota has no rivers flow into it (only out)
Really weird thing about land being on the other side of the Mississippi River: Illinois's first capitol is now west of the river: Kaskaskia was the territorial capital and I do believe very briefly the state capitol. But now it's west of the river on an island - and the only bridge to it connects to the Missouri side. So you have to go to Missouri to see Illinois's first state capitol.
The state line looks to follow the former river so it's in Illinois, but yes on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Thanks I've heard of Kaskaskia but never thought to look up where it is.
@@andyjay729 My grandmother passed away in Quincy, Illinois in 1993. There is a park there called Bluff Park, where you can stand on top of the hill and look across the Mississippi River to the bluff in the Missouri side. My dad took us to the park while we were in town to see the river. The two bluffs are 3-5 miles apart, and he told us the river is usually about 1/4 mile wide at the park. When we were there, you could see a waterline about 15ft up the trees on the hills of both bluffs! And the river was still more than a mile wide. I've never seen ANYTHING like that, and I grew up in Virginia with frequent hurricanes!
Maine is the only state to border only one other state (NH). Every other state borders at least two states or, in the case of AK and HI, no states. Just a bit of trivia.
Now that I think of it, nh bordered ma on two borders before maine became a state (was a part of mass prior to then. any other state ever lay a claim to that?
As a western marylander, thanks for calling out the 1-mile-wide oddity! Another one that's slightly less impressive is a little farther east. If you start in I-81 at the Pennsylvania border and head south, you cross through 4 states in just 30 minutes (~35ish miles or so).
I know that stretch. One minute you're in Gettysburg. Next think you know you're by Camp David, then suddenly blasting through the W. VA panhandle before dropping into Winchester, VA. I love the one-mile stretch in Hancock. I nerded out about it with my now-wife when we passed through. I'm amazed she married me.
Man, I love your channel. My dad gave me his Rand McNally World Atlas when I was 5 years old because I was always reading its maps, comparing states, borders & minutiae like you do in many of your videos. So imagine one of the first few dates I had with my wife in our mid-20’s, we both turn out to be geography trivia champs at a local bar. Still together 30 years later. 👍
Driving up I-495 from Virginia you cross a tiny portion of DC before going into Maryland. Google maps welcomes you to DC and immediately after welcomes you to Maryland.
That shape of Maryland is really weird indeed. As I'd mentioned it somewhere before, it looks like a sandwich that someone took a huge bite out of with one part just barely hanging by the crust, just about to fall off.
Growing up in El Paso Texas, we were closer in mileage to LA (Cali) than we were to Houston. Back in the early ‘80’s, cable TV came across the desert states to El Paso from CA, so we were much more in tune with the west coast than we were to the rest of our state!
When I lived in Albuquerque the news from El Paso was treated as an extension of New Mexico current events. In fact, because of it’s proximity El Paso feels more like it’s part of New Mexico than it is of Texas.
Recently, I moved from CA to TX, so I experienced this. It was a shorter distance to drive from my former home near Berkeley to Los Angeles than to drive from El Paso to the beginning of the Hill Country!
For a brief time I had a sibling in San Diego, a sibling in El Paso, and me near Houston. My family still makes jokes to this day about how my one sibling could drive from El Paso to San Diego faster than driving across Texas to Houston. El Paso is its own unique place and culture when compared to the rest of Texas.
Fun fact: That portion of Florida is actually the same time as that portion of Idaho for one hour on the first Sunday in November, after Central Time changes its time but before Mountain Time does!
I think he meant that if you live in Texarkana, Arkansas yout don't pay state income tax in Arkansas as if you actually live in Texarkana, Texas because Texas has no state income tax. Arkansas residents whose permanent residence is within the city limits of Texarkana, Arkansas are exempt from Arkansas individual income taxes. And, property tax in Texarkana, Arkansas is half as much as in Texarkana, Texas because Texas property taxes are higher since there is no state income tax.
No Arkansas residents do pay state taxes, and technically if you live in Texas and work in Arkansas you do pay Arkansas state tax but have a a form to send in with them to get all of it back. Trust me, it is a headache dealing with it.
Came to correct the state income tax statement as well. We have a much higher sales tax usually right around double what it is in states with a state income tax. The property tax is one big giant mess I wish they would fix.
In Michigan, you can visit Paradise, Nirvana, and Hell, all in the same day. Inasmuch as Paradise is in the upper peninsula and Hell is downstate near Detroit, Paradise is frequently colder than Hell.
We visited Paradise, Michigan. We are from Paradise, California. There is a very small community called Hell Town less than 20 miles up the Sierra Nevada foothills, which is cooler than Paradise most of the time.. After the Camp Fire destroyed 18,000 buildings in Paradise California in 2018, we had to move to nearby Chico, California. In Texas, you can find both Paradise and Chico almost as close as their California twin cities.
In the seventh grade had a teacher teach flat earth. The point of the classes was to prove him wrong. He was one of the better teachers for developing critical thinking.
@Gengrik Yagoda are they? You mean like forcing pledge every morning? Like paddling students (something like half the US still does this) Sounds more like you are getting your world view from political propaganda
@@john2432 There's a difference between edgy and harsh reality. They teach you what science learned, not how to do it. They make you read books and try to tell you how you should comprehend it, they even do that in "common core" math now. But the worst of all is there is no opting out of this mis-education. There are no public alternatives, and the state both acts like their standards are appropriate and says you have to use at least 8 years of your childhood learning them
Interesting, and I really appreciate you put the metric numbers at the bottom of the screen in most cases you mention a distance or another unit. This expands your public to the rest of the world iso just the USA... Well done from marketing perspective!
He meant: if you’re at the southeast corner of Michigan, it’s a shorter distance to take a straight line to SC than it is to take a straight line to the westernmost point in Michigan
There's also a road in the Carolinas just south of Charlotte where this happens several times. If you follow it long enough going north OR south, you'll flip flop between the two a few times.
Maybe has been said in the comments long ago, but there's another instance of an Interstate dipping into another state like I-24 dips briefly into Georgia. I-86 in New York between Elmira and Binghamton briefly drops into the state of Pennsylvania for about a mile. Similarly, the mile markings and exit numbering does not change. I-86 is a relatively newly designated Interstate, so I-24 may have held that distinction for quite a long time, but it now has humble but legitimate company!
There is a city(more like a town) that's in Utah and Nevada called Wendover. Nevada's side is lit up because of casinos and Utah's side is dark and almost dead. There's a town called George in Washington, so George, Washington.
There's also I-684 (in NY) which runs almost due North/South, but has a little over a mile running through the corner of Greenwich Connecticut. There's an office complex in Greenwich, CT that you can only get to from the NY side. Approx. Coordinates: [41.096625261733614, -73.72017205404715]
@@jakebutler291 Hence why I thought it was that way. I drive it quite often (at least I did pre-COVID) as I work just off old exit 4 (Route 17 Middletown) and live about 30-odd miles up Route 209 from Port Jervis NY but am originally from west central PA and that's my main way back home (I-84 to I-81 to I-80 to I-99)
I-84 was originally supposed be in New Jersey, but it would have maybe been a couple miles long, if that. NJ rejected 84, due to the expenses in maintaining it, leading to the alignment as it is.
There is a point where Canada’s provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the territories of Northwest Territories and Nunavut all meet. It’s only 4 places, but still.
@@dvferyance the are several places in Wisconsin where 4 counties meet at one point. Milwaukee, Washington, Waukesha, and Ozaukee counties are one example.
I had a friend who farmed in Divide County , North Dakota. He had a field that was on the Canadian border. The field was actually a hay slough which was bisected by the US-Canadian border. He was fond of saying that the border in that area was determined by whoever cut hay in that field first, of course, each farmer only cut the hay on his side of the slough.
Kept expecting a mention of the peculiar northern border of Delaware. It's the only border in the US (as far as I know) that is described in terms of a radius from a fixed point.
Delaware only had one battle during The Revolutionary War for Independence and Philadelphia Pennsylvania is the largest northern city closest to the south!
I’m from Texarkana, and want to make a correction/add info: While Texarkana is considered “one city” by most people, it is actually two cities. You could say that Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas are conjoined twin cities, since they do share quite a few municipal services, such as water, and one Chamber of Commerce. Also, in the Courthouse/Post Office that is situated on the state line, the judges chair in the courtroom is bolted to the floor so that they are always sitting in (and hopefully representing) the two states.
@@Brimstone-Gaming Not the same. Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO have a river between them, so you can't be in both at the same time (unless you are under water). Texarkana, TX and Texarkana, AR have no river between them, so you can stand, or sit, right on the line.
I used to live, at different times, in Chicago, and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both are closer to Texarkana, Texas than El Paso Texas is. You can probably find a lot of similar oddities by measuring the distance between the points in Texas that are farthest apart, and making that distance the radius of a circle centered on either of the two points. Texas is BIG!
Texas is massive, I live in Texarkana and have traveled in texas a lot. So realizing how big it was, it blew my mind when I found out Alaska is almost 3 times bigger!!! Normally the maps we use make Alaska seem smaller then it actually is. Circles don’t lay down flat without morphing something.
I was surprised you didn't mention Lloydminster in Canada, a city in both AB and SK, when you mentioned Texarkana! Unlike Texarkana which is technically a "twin city," though, Lloydminster is truly ONE CITY shared between the two provinces. Cool stuff! Love your vids (and, yes, excited when I get an alert every time a new one comes out), so thanks Geo King!
Don’t know if this geography, but earlier this I was surprised to learn that the bottom of Lake Erie is actually higher above sea level than the surface of Lake Ontario.
this is mostly because Lake Erie is the shallowest Great Lake by FAR, its deepest point is 210 feet and its average depth is 62 feet. I was honestly surprised that a lake that big could be that shallow
I-24 West of Chattanooga is not the only route that enters another state. I-86 in New York dips into Pennsylvania at Waverly NY/South Waverly, PA and I-684 crosses into Greenwich, CT just north of Westchester County Airport. Both sections of road are maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority.
Thank you for the correction. Man that I-86 in PA is quite the sliver! Didn't even notice it without a serious zooming in on the map. And I totally missed 684. I was focused on the main interstates and overlooked the spurs and loops.
I used to drive through that slice of Connecticut on 684 all the time when I was a teenager. And given my penchant for treating the posted speed limit more as a recommendation than a rule, I used to wonder if the New York State Troopers had jurisdiction over that stretch of the interstate. I assumed not, and, as such, would haul ass over that section of the highway, as I'd never seen a CT Trooper on 684.
Also according to Google Maps, AR-43 dips into Oklahoma in the vicinity of Maysville - I found this when trying to find routes south from AR into OK after you mentioned it in the video.
@@JCDofNYC ... I did the same for I-15 in the NW corner of Arizona (can't be accessed by AZ, only Utah or Nevada) until I found out that they have shared jurisdiction with their neighboring states. Luckily I never got a ticket through the Virgin River Gorge there.
For a couple years of high school I lived on the border of Hamilton and Marion county in Tennessee and randomly my phone would switch time zones during the night… I was only late to class a couple times 😂
This is one of the best TH-cam channels. I majored in Physical Science and Math in college and took a lot of Earth Science courses, which I enjoyed immensely. Another oddity is that there is a part of Canada that is further south than the northern border of California.
Living in Chattanooga, I figured you would’ve mentioned Bristol TN/VA. It’s a city split in two by the state line, if you’re driving down State Street heading East, you’re in TN but if you make a U-turn and head West, you’re in VA. Very neat place to visit.
There is a half marathon in Texarkana called Run the Line, the last bit is on State Line, heading south you are in Texas and heading north it is in Arkansas, i tell everyone i ran through 2 states
Which connects to Interstate 87... which never leaves New York, but is called an Interstate since it meets the standards of the Interstate Highway System
@@RyanCarpenter that is a fun factoid but definitely not a good enough reason to keep time changes 🙃 (I will die on the "Time changes are just the worst" hill lol)
New England is completely separated from the rest of the country by one state: New York. Also, New Jersey comes the closest to two states without bordering them: Connecticut and Maryland. Both CT-NY-NJ and MD-DE-NJ are referred to as tri-state areas, though NJ doesn't actually border CT or MD.
MD-DE-NJ is more of a quad state area, also including PA. They also call it Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia-Mount Holly MSA or the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA.
I absolutely love your videos. I find them fascinating. Thank you! I love your nerdy type perspective! Please keep doing these videos. With love from a Brit who loves USA!
Would it be possible for me to start a business in west texarkana for no corporate income tax and then pay my personal income to east texarkana and then i dont have to pay taxes? 😂
One cool oddity in Washington state goes by the name of "Point Roberts". It's a peninsula in the northern side of the state which is connected to mainland Canada but it's still a part of Washington state. If you live in Point Roberts you would have to cross the Canada border just to get to the rest of Washington state.
There’s a movement for them to join Canada as they are getting fucked over because they can’t go through Canada to get to the rest of the US cuz of corona
Here's one random fact I recently learned: There is just one county east of the Mississippi River that has less than 1 person per square mile: Keweenaw County, Michigan. It's because a large majority of the county is water - Lake Superior, to be exact. It's where Isle Royale National Park is as well.
Isle Royale is part of Michigan, but it is accessible by boat from Grand Marais, MN, on the north shore of Lake Superior. I do not believe you can get to Isle Royale from the Keweenaw peninsula.
Great video! I was waiting to see if the time zone thing came up and was excited when it did. But! You stopped short at the tidbit I find most interesting. For one hour a year, when Central time leaps forward one hour in the spring, they have the same time as Mountain time and there are portions of an Atlantic and Pacific state with the same exact time!
Love you geography videos! I am a geography buff myself, and I really enjoy your videos, and I learn a lot! Thank you so much! Always excited for new videos!
A guy was in the hospital in canada and had surgery. Upon recovering, the 1st nurse shift checked on him. The second shift nurse said...everything ok with the patient? She said, yeah, except he had the word "Swan" tatooed on his penis. So the third late night nurse said I have to see this... she came back out after a few minutes and said...that's not Swan...it's Saskatchewan!
You say "nerdy type perspective" like it's something bad!! I, for one, revel in the nerdy type perspective. Another great video, Your Majesty! It's good to be the King! Speaking of the little sliver of Maryland you referenced, to the best of my knowledge, aside from the Four Corners (i.e., Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico), the shortest distance one can travel and visit four separate States is up through Rte. 552, which in approximately 15 miles, one can drive from Virginia to West Virginia to Maryland to Pennsylvania.
If I remember correctly, Alaska had 5 time zones at one time. Anchorage (the largest city) was 2 hours later than Juneau (the state capitol) and Nome was 2 hours later than Anchorage. In 1983 nearly all of Alaska was placed into one time zone. But the Island of Attu is across the international date line so it is really in yesterday.
This is incorrect. Alaska once boasted being 4 separate Time-zones but now is only 2: Alaska Time & Hawaiian-Aleutian Time. Attu, being a part of Hawaiian-Aleutian Time, is so far away from the rest of Alaska that the International Date Line is drawn such, so to as include it with the rest of the 49th State.
While we’re on the topic of Alaska and geographical oddities… Did you know Alaska is the Most Northern (Northernmost) State?! This is only true if your count includes ALL 50 States!! (As it should) Also, if you again Count-in all 50 States (and not just the “Lower 48”), Alaska is also the Westernmost (Most Western) and Easternmost (Most Eastern) State. It is farther West than Hawaii and farther East than Maine.
Long Post warning: I grew up in Western Montana, and during the 17 years I lived there (birth to 17 yrs), we crossed the Continental Divide so many times I lost count. Esp when we lived fro 5 yrs in Butte or Anaconda (west of the divide) and on weekends visited relatives in Madison County (east of the divide). The Rocky Mt Divide separates the drainages of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, which is basically a branch of the Atlantic. Most ppl know this one. But there are OTHER continental divides. The Appalachian crest is one; streams east of it flow directly to the Atlantic coast; those west feed into the Ohio and/or MIssissippi and tributaries, and thence to the Gulf. Easy to see, no? Well, there is another divide I've seen marked, when I drove from Billings MT to Fargo (then north to Winnipeg bck in 1994), out in the middle of the North Dakota prairie, and it separates the Mississippi River drainage system from that of the Red River of the North (which I came to in Fargo). This Red River flows NORTH to Hudson's Bay and the Arctic ocean. I didn't go farther east than that, but I'm sure there's an equivalent "divide" on the other side of the Red River to separate it from the MIssissippi in Minnesota and Wisconsin, etc. Also, although the Snake, which rises in Yellowstone and flows across Idaho and to the Columbia feeds the Pacific, if you go over some ridge crests down into Utah and Nevada where you're east of the Sierras, rivers in the Great Basin region of these two states DO NOT flow to any ocean or sea. The Colorado, of course, flows in the Gulf of California, but several rivers in Nevada and Utah flow into some of the basins in this area: (Geologically it's the "basin and range" province) and end up settling into the ground in the lowest lying areas they can reach. These are known as SINKS. The one I'm most familiar with is the Carson Sink, but I've seen several others I never knew the names of while driving across Nevada (on vacation trips back to my home state of MT), and you can see the alkali flats out in those areas where the water drainage ends. Trivia note: Another thing I saw whilst driving across North Dakota on the Interstate was when I approached the capital city of that state and saw a sign along the freeway that said "Port of Bismark next Exit:" Well, yeah, the Missouri is navigable to Bismark; I know it's also navigable to Great Falls MT, but for someone who's lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for (mumblety mumble) years, even though I knew it intellectually, that sign was a wakeup call LOL. Maybe if you can find other inland "port" cities on other rivers with signs like this along the major highways, it might be a fun tour, and I'd watch it with glee. Side note: University minor was geography (major was French; don't ask), but mother was a geology hobbyist for as long as I can remember, so I love to combine lore from both of these disciplines.
Another oddity to add...I live in RI. Despite being the smallest state (only 37 miles wide by 48 miles long) we have over 400 miles of coastline. Much of it beautiful might I add!
Well, that has a lot to do with how you measure coastlines. Technically any portion of land on earth with access to the sea could have an infinitely long coastline depending on how small of measurements you want to take. Math can be counterintuitive!
One of my favorite little towns in your area is McCaysville in the Southern Appalachian valley. The TN/GA state line runs right through the downtown and there is a bar/brewery there with the state line painted on the floor so you can drink a beer in two states at the same time. I think technically they are organized as separate municipalities, but it was always pretty cool when visiting the South Appalachain area for MTB and Hiking trips.
The state line runs through "downtown" Copperhill, TN. Most of McCaysville, GA businesses are across the river. The towns are politically totally separate, with 2 different city councils, but business/tourist wise acts as one bigger town.
@@medic7556 You are correct, I was referring to the Toccoa Ave strip on the Copperhill side. I have been there a couple times when on trips to go Mtn Biking, backpacking in the area. Cool little town to stop in and get a beer and lunch in in the area.
Fun fact about Nevada and California: There's this hotel and it has a pool. Since the state border cuts the pool in half, you can wade in Nevada and California at the same time
One note about Texarkana -- it is not the only city/town that spans across two states. Delmar is in both Delaware and Maryland, hence the name, very much like Texarkana. The other city that is in two states at once is Bristol, in both Tennessee and Virginia. Both of these cities, like Texarkana, are split by the corresponding state lines.
@@jerrellritchie9331 He was stating that the residents of the Arkansas side don't pay state taxes as well as the Texas side. Whereas all other Arkansas residents pay a state income tax.
Thank You for the informative content. I enjoyed hearing facts about our country. Your channel is very entertaining. It is easy to retain statistics due to choice of word placement & sentences. You have a good way of delivering your message because of speaking clearly w/o an annoying voice. Great Job! Keep up the sharing of knowledge. You seem like an enthusiastic & patriotic American. -TrashyTodd
The entire city follows Mountain Time, and the rest of Saskatchewan doesn’t observe daylight savings. So the SK side of Lloydminater is the only part of SK that changes its clocks.
As a lifetime resident of Michigan, I can say definitively that we're not upset at all about losing the Toledo Strip. We gained the Upper Peninsula out of it. That's a win-win in my book.
Love this. Very informative. The meandering Mississippi can be clearly seen flying north or south into Memphis. You can see where the river used to flow. An interesting fact is that the border between Quebec and Vermont is about one mile north of the 45th Parallel, and a fort was partly built at Rouses Point, New York. It was supposed to be a border fort, but was abandoned when it was discovered that the border was actually a mile north. It was a survey blunder. Same holds true for the town of Derby, Vermont/Quebec, which is split by the international border.
I'm a retired 42 year over-the-road tractor-trailer driver, and I've been pondering these "quirks" for a long time. Ah, the fond memories of keying up the CB radio on that stretch of 77-81 and telling people that it doesn't matter if you're on 81 north or 77 south, you're going east or west. The comments I got would make a truck driver blush. I just watched your little spot on I-24 which dips down into Georgia before continuing back north into Tennessee. There is a similar situation just north of NYC where I-684 cuts off the far south western tip of Connecticut. And then the segue that you love: Speaking of Connecticut, what's the reason for those 2 encroaching peninsulas that come down out of Massachusetts south Of Westfield and Springfield? Looking forward to more geographical conundrums! Also, the Niagara Escarpment is thoroughly fascinating to me!
Mike Troy jeez, that would just be such an overt, obvious money grab, the public backlash would probably make the governor reconsider. One would think, nowadays, anything seems possible.
The old route 17. Another quirk about that is that the section of NY17 that ran through PA in Waverly was marked PA17 IIRC, and then when NY17 got to PA at the western border it changed to PA17 until it met up with I-90. So PA had two highways marked PA17 that were separated by a couple hundred miles.
Here is a true west-coast oddity: In Southern California, just south of Santa Barbara, U.S. 101 runs right along the coast for several miles. This section of coastline turns due east-west. So, if one is driving this highway, early on a winter morning, the sun actually appears to be rising from the Pacific Ocean!
Whoa, that just blew my mind. I had to check it on the map, and I'm still having a hard time convincing my brain to believe it, even though I can see how it works right there.
@South Texas no worse than looking at billions of dollars worth of cookie cutter houses. Don't be pretentious, you pompous tart. You're no better than anyone else.
Something pretty cool about where I live in my opinion is the fact that Salisbury, MD is between 2 and 2.5 hours away from 5 different major metropolitan areas/cities in 5 different states/city-states. Philadelphia, PA Norfolk, VA Wilmington, DE Baltimore, MD Washington D.C. Whenever someone asks me what’s the closest major city all I can say is, “it’s complicated.” 😂
Does Wilmington really count? I mean, I know it does clearly have a different city identity, but it's not very big and important and it is quite overshadowed by/has a contiguous urban complex with Philly
My favorite US geographic oddity (learned from an old AAA TourBook): It is farther to drive from Walnut Hill, Florida to Key West (862 miles), than it is to drive from Walnut Hill, Florida to Chicago (849 miles (via I-65/US-41)).
El Paso to Orange TX is further than Orange to Jacksonville FL and further than El Paso to San Diego CA. Brownsville to Texas panhandle is further than the panhandle to Canada.
He might not have said it very clearly, but he did get it right: "If you live in Texarkana, AR, you don't pay state income taxes - as if you lived on the Texas side."
@@Jesse__H So is he saying the Arkansas state income tax doesn't apply to people who live Arkansas side of Texarkana? That actually is interesting if so.
Near where I live you have to drive south to get into North Carolina, and north to get into South Carolina. On the commute in and out you're flipping your visor every which way.
You should look at Delmar, MD and Delmar, DE. It’s another scenario of a city or town being so big that it exists in two states simultaneously. Consequently, everyone on the Maryland side goes to Wicomico County schools, while everyone on the Delaware side goes to their schools. For those who want to be on Jeopardy, Delmar is 2/3 the name of the peninsula that the folks here live on: The Delmarva peninsula
Kaskaskia, the first capital city of Illinois, is now on the Missouri side of the Mississippi river, after a flood in 1881 changed the flow of the river.
HI Carl, Your channel is the only geography channel I watch!! A few interesting geographical tidbits for ya... #1. South Point, HI (on "the Big Island of Hawaii) is more southern than Mexico City, Mexico & in fact, is the southernmost point of any US soil. #2 For the most part (Honolulu, a notable exception), city government is nonexistent, most islands are in the county of the same name of their respective island & a county council & mayor exist for each of their entire island!! The Big Island, as it's referred to almost always, is aptly caoled that to differentiate when referring to the name of the island, county or state (Hawaii Island in Hawaii County in the state of Hawaiiin this instance) Honolulu excluded).#3. Hawaii is perpetually the fastest-growing state, growing in size with every lava flow & eruption that makes it past it's shoreline (or spews from the ocean's floor, just past the coastline. This almost always results in attaching to the Big Island above the sea level &/or below! #4.The Big Island also loses upwards of hundreds of acres, where chunks of the southern part of the island will break off & just drop to the bottom of the ocean, from earthquakes & volcanic pressure below the ground's surface, Over 300 acres had broke off, unbeknownst to the various HVO scientists. #5 While not among the largest land area states, the area of ocean Hawaii & it's hundreds of atolls, islands & still forming islands, makes Hawaii among those having the largest amount of ocean shoreline. #6 The Hawaiian state flag is the only state flag that includes the flag of another sovereign nation.
Dalhart, Texas is closer to six other state capitals than its own in Austin: Santa Fe, New Mexico: Denver, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Oklahoma City Oklahoma; Topeka Kansas, and Lincoln Nebraska.
Really? I’ve been through dalhart once, and it was a beautiful little town. I have fond memories of the texas panhandle, but I guess I never realized how far it was from Austin
I grew up in Omaha and had an uncle who lived in Carter Lake. When I was younger it always seemed like such an adventure going "all the way to Iowa" to visit him.
Michigan did not "loose" the boundary war with Ohio. In return for the "Toledo Strip" going to Ohio, Michigan obtained the entire Upper Peninsula. All things considered, that is a net win. :-) Our dislike of The Ohio State is, well it is Ohio.
An oddity on Washington's Olympic Peninsula: The Hoh Rainforest is the only temperate rain forest in North America with about 140 inches a year. Travel a straight line distance of about 40 miles north east to the town of Sequim and you'll be in an area that receives around 23 inches a year.
MN state highway 23 actually runs through a little part of Wisconsin for a couple thousand feet. There's an auto body shop with an address given as "2994 MN-23, Superior, WI"
I like the oddity of the Walkill River, which runs from south to north in New York State but is parallel and just about 30 west of the Hudson River which flows from north to south.
@@rembrandt972ify West, Texas is north of Waco. The interesting part is that West, Texas has never been in the western part of the state despite the border changes.
My hometown (Detroit, Michigan) is east of where I now work, Cherokee, North Carolina! (Detroit is slightly west of where I live now, Waynesville, North Carolina.)
Some more whacky facts about South Carolina town names! 1. North, South Carolina is located roughly in the center of the state-but the town of Central, South Carolina is in the northwest corner of the state. 2. If you're traveling south from North (lol) along route 321, you'll pass the three tiny towns of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, all in about 20 minutes. (And, if you keep going for another 45 minutes or so, you'll hit the town of Switzerland, too.)
Interesting thing about the Oxbow at Vicksburg that you mentioned. The fort that was placed on the bend in the river that was instrumental to controlling the Mississippi during the Civil War before the union took it over, is now on a lake, where it would serve no useful function.
Oh I don't know about that. It's awfy hard to storm a fortress that is surrounded by water on all sides. It's why back in the middle ages they built moats around castles.
How much of Northern Canada is habitable?
Nunavut
Very little. The two biggest cities are Yellowknife North West Territories and Whitehorse Yukon Territory.
@@ravenclawavenger2170 i dont think you get the pun...
Wha-? Does Toronto not exist?
I am a bit surprised Yukon doesn't have more people. The weather there isn't as harsh as places farther east and it does have mountains. It's also next to Alaska.
@@HarleyAverage Toronto isn't Northern Canada.
75% of Canadians in Canada live south of Seattle.
Canadians in Canada? What about Canadians in Mexico
@@4realjacob637 100% of them, however many of them there are, also live south of Seattle.
How about the Canadians that live south of the US. The part of Canada that is south of Detroit, MI.
But Toronto is still much colder than Seattle. So the cold stereotypes still apply.
100% of Portland Metro Area Residents of Oregon are almost 2 full degrees NORTH of the entirety of Toronto, too :)
“North, South Carolina is 100 miles southeast of Due West.”
Well done.
That is a chore to read.
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Reminds me of the TV show Community and the "The north cafeteria, named after Admiral William North is located in the western portion of East hall, gateway to the western half of North Hall. Which is named... not after William North but for it's position above the south wall."
There's also a Southport, North Carolina, and if I remember correctly, there's an East West Street there too
Really like your videos. An interesting fact about Seattle is that they measure the rainfall at the airport. The airport was built where it is for two reasons. First, it split two major cities. Second, it was a fairly "dry" place. If you go fifteen miles to the east, the average rainfall jumps to over 50".
SeaTac is it's own city...it is crazy though how then rainfall can vary so within such a short distance in the Sound area
Wonder if they do this to make it sound like it's not that rainy up there... but in actuality, it is LOL!
Another note about Crater Lake is that there's no river feeding it. It's all rain and snow melt. With no sediment coming or going, you get that clear blue body of water. Fun vid!
The bad news is, if you are on a boat and your keys fall out of your pocket and over the edge, that will be the last you ever see of them.
I'm surprised that it doesn't evaporate more than it does. I guess the air is just saturated enough with water all the time to stop significant drops in water.
> 0:48 < Is there no river out of Crater Lake?
@@295g295 no
@@Tiqerboy That's why key floats were created.
I live in NW Florida (a state with three NFL teams) and the closest NFL stadium is in Louisiana, three states away.
These oddities will make you crazy if you think about them too long! 😆
So, your favourite drink is Pensa-Cola?
@@denelson83 Bah-dum tiss
Atlanta Falcons?
@@christopher10coo New Orleans saints 😒
Even though I’m not american (I’m swedish) I love this kind of geographical quirks and oddities about the US (and anywhere else).
Wanna fight over Märket island?
As an American I'd love to watch a video just like this about Sweden.
Jag med!
Also, Salt Lake in Minnesota is the only salt lake between Utah and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s 25% of the salinity of the ocean and attracts unique birds due to its salt nature. Also, Minnesota has no rivers flow into it (only out)
And in all the apocalypse movies nothing ever happens to minnesota.
@@jonanderson4474 It is as bad as it can get. That is because it is ruled by the nearly communist DFL Party.
The Oregon /Florida one hour time difference deal takes a minute to sink in...good stuff!!..thanks 👍
When they turn back the clocks one hour to standard time, eastern Oregon and Florida panhandle are the same time for one hour.
That one is nuts. Same think with the Arkansas one.
This was my favorite.
As someone who lives in Pensacola, FL, far west in the panhandle, it definitely trips up family and friends who are out of town! Haha
this blew my mind
Really weird thing about land being on the other side of the Mississippi River: Illinois's first capitol is now west of the river: Kaskaskia was the territorial capital and I do believe very briefly the state capitol. But now it's west of the river on an island - and the only bridge to it connects to the Missouri side. So you have to go to Missouri to see Illinois's first state capitol.
The state line looks to follow the former river so it's in Illinois, but yes on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Thanks I've heard of Kaskaskia but never thought to look up where it is.
@@timmmahhhh Unfortunately the first time I remember hearing that name was in reports about the 1993 floods (it was hit very hard).
I heard about this while visiting nearby Ste. Genevieve, MO which is a historic city well worth a visit itself!
@@andyjay729 yeah those floods were nasty.
@@andyjay729 My grandmother passed away in Quincy, Illinois in 1993. There is a park there called Bluff Park, where you can stand on top of the hill and look across the Mississippi River to the bluff in the Missouri side. My dad took us to the park while we were in town to see the river. The two bluffs are 3-5 miles apart, and he told us the river is usually about 1/4 mile wide at the park. When we were there, you could see a waterline about 15ft up the trees on the hills of both bluffs! And the river was still more than a mile wide. I've never seen ANYTHING like that, and I grew up in Virginia with frequent hurricanes!
Maine is the only state to border only one other state (NH). Every other state borders at least two states or, in the case of AK and HI, no states. Just a bit of trivia.
Alaska almost borders Washington, if you count its southeastern island chain
Maine is also the only one-syllable state in the US!
You Maineiacs!
Now that I think of it, nh bordered ma on two borders before maine became a state (was a part of mass prior to then. any other state ever lay a claim to that?
@@oldgranite6467 Bootheel of Missouri and the river reroute quirks are the only other remotely close
As a western marylander, thanks for calling out the 1-mile-wide oddity! Another one that's slightly less impressive is a little farther east. If you start in I-81 at the Pennsylvania border and head south, you cross through 4 states in just 30 minutes (~35ish miles or so).
This is particularly impressive when juxtaposed against the trip from Scottsbluff, NE to Savannah, GA-both take you through the same number of states.
@@erickpoorbaugh6728 good catch. that's crazy impressive
I know that stretch. One minute you're in Gettysburg. Next think you know you're by Camp David, then suddenly blasting through the W. VA panhandle before dropping into Winchester, VA.
I love the one-mile stretch in Hancock. I nerded out about it with my now-wife when we passed through. I'm amazed she married me.
I went through this part just a few weeks ago! It's crazy!
@@LoveStallion Maybe she's a nerd also.
Man, I love your channel. My dad gave me his Rand McNally World Atlas when I was 5 years old because I was always reading its maps, comparing states, borders & minutiae like you do in many of your videos. So imagine one of the first few dates I had with my wife in our mid-20’s, we both turn out to be geography trivia champs at a local bar. Still together 30 years later. 👍
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I have driven through that part of Maryland before. My Google map: "Welcome to Maryland"... 30 seconds later: “Welcome to West Virginia”
I was just going to offer this one... you beat me. Go from MD to VA to WV in about 3000 feet of driving along Rt 340
I'm curious where you were going to actually get off in Hancock
So I suppose you could walk from Pennsylvania to West Virginia (or the opposite) through Maryland in about 25 minutes.
Driving up I-495 from Virginia you cross a tiny portion of DC before going into Maryland. Google maps welcomes you to DC and immediately after welcomes you to Maryland.
That shape of Maryland is really weird indeed. As I'd mentioned it somewhere before, it looks like a sandwich that someone took a huge bite out of with one part just barely hanging by the crust, just about to fall off.
Growing up in El Paso Texas, we were closer in mileage to LA (Cali) than we were to Houston. Back in the early ‘80’s, cable TV came across the desert states to El Paso from CA, so we were much more in tune with the west coast than we were to the rest of our state!
When I lived in Albuquerque the news from El Paso was treated as an extension of New Mexico current events. In fact, because of it’s proximity El Paso feels more like it’s part of New Mexico than it is of Texas.
Recently, I moved from CA to TX, so I experienced this. It was a shorter distance to drive from my former home near Berkeley to Los Angeles than to drive from El Paso to the beginning of the Hill Country!
For a brief time I had a sibling in San Diego, a sibling in El Paso, and me near Houston. My family still makes jokes to this day about how my one sibling could drive from El Paso to San Diego faster than driving across Texas to Houston.
El Paso is its own unique place and culture when compared to the rest of Texas.
Earth is flat! Deal with it 😂
Fun fact: That portion of Florida is actually the same time as that portion of Idaho for one hour on the first Sunday in November, after Central Time changes its time but before Mountain Time does!
If you live in Texarkana, Texas you don't pay state tax. Texas doesn't pay state tax
4:33
Came here to say the same thing - he got the AR and TX state income taxes reversed
I think he meant that if you live in Texarkana, Arkansas yout don't pay state income tax in Arkansas as if you actually live in Texarkana, Texas because Texas has no state income tax. Arkansas residents whose permanent residence is within the city limits of Texarkana, Arkansas are exempt from Arkansas individual income taxes. And, property tax in Texarkana, Arkansas is half as much as in Texarkana, Texas because Texas property taxes are higher since there is no state income tax.
No Arkansas residents do pay state taxes, and technically if you live in Texas and work in Arkansas you do pay Arkansas state tax but have a a form to send in with them to get all of it back. Trust me, it is a headache dealing with it.
I actually live in Texarkana TX and Cody Aaron is completely right on this
Came to correct the state income tax statement as well. We have a much higher sales tax usually right around double what it is in states with a state income tax. The property tax is one big giant mess I wish they would fix.
In Michigan, you can visit Paradise, Nirvana, and Hell, all in the same day. Inasmuch as Paradise is in the upper peninsula and Hell is downstate near Detroit, Paradise is frequently colder than Hell.
We visited Paradise, Michigan. We are from Paradise, California. There is a very small community called Hell Town less than 20 miles up the Sierra Nevada foothills, which is cooler than Paradise most of the time..
After the Camp Fire destroyed 18,000 buildings in Paradise California in 2018, we had to move to nearby Chico, California. In Texas, you can find both Paradise and Chico almost as close as their California twin cities.
There's also a Hell in Norway. A woman from there won the Miss Universe Beauty Pagent. She was a beauty queen from Hell.
@@scottmorris5730 The Hell You Say
You can also drive from California to Alaska in one day if you live in Michigan!
You can also drive from California to Alaska in one day if you live in Michigan!
In the seventh grade had a teacher teach flat earth. The point of the classes was to prove him wrong. He was one of the better teachers for developing critical thinking.
@Gengrik Yagoda are they? You mean like forcing pledge every morning? Like paddling students (something like half the US still does this)
Sounds more like you are getting your world view from political propaganda
@Gengrik Yagoda Are you still in middle school?
@@john2432 looking back on it, middle school really ruins your perception of the world and destroys your mind lol
@@john2432 There's a difference between edgy and harsh reality. They teach you what science learned, not how to do it. They make you read books and try to tell you how you should comprehend it, they even do that in "common core" math now. But the worst of all is there is no opting out of this mis-education. There are no public alternatives, and the state both acts like their standards are appropriate and says you have to use at least 8 years of your childhood learning them
Interesting, and I really appreciate you put the metric numbers at the bottom of the screen in most cases you mention a distance or another unit. This expands your public to the rest of the world iso just the USA... Well done from marketing perspective!
One interesting fact I learned is that the southeastern most point of Michigan is closer to South Carolina than the westernmost point of Michigan!
Well duh
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
@@zkittlezthabanditt604 big yikes
@@thewelcomer5698 neither one of y’all got what he meant🤦🏻♂️
He meant: if you’re at the southeast corner of Michigan, it’s a shorter distance to take a straight line to SC than it is to take a straight line to the westernmost point in Michigan
"Interesting quirks and features"
Careful, you might summon a wild Doug Demuro
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From the Winchester, Virginia area you can travel east and be in West Virginia.
Cape May, NJ is South of Winchester, as are Evansviile, IN and Cairo, Illinois
Go south from Detroit, Michigan and you arrive in Canada.
There's also a road in the Carolinas just south of Charlotte where this happens several times. If you follow it long enough going north OR south, you'll flip flop between the two a few times.
Maybe has been said in the comments long ago, but there's another instance of an Interstate dipping into another state like I-24 dips briefly into Georgia. I-86 in New York between Elmira and Binghamton briefly drops into the state of Pennsylvania for about a mile. Similarly, the mile markings and exit numbering does not change. I-86 is a relatively newly designated Interstate, so I-24 may have held that distinction for quite a long time, but it now has humble but legitimate company!
There is a city(more like a town) that's in Utah and Nevada called Wendover. Nevada's side is lit up because of casinos and Utah's side is dark and almost dead.
There's a town called George in Washington, so George, Washington.
I believe Tahoe is the same way where half of it is in California and the other half is in Nevada
They called wendover Air Force Base, leftover Air Force Base, when they were training b-29 Crews to drop the bomb
509th composite squadron
Colonel tibbetts & company
Every year George, Washington has the world's largest cherry pie on Washington's birthday.
Every one of this guy's videos is like when your high school teacher would do a lesson that was randomly really interesting. can't get enough
Re: I-24 at Chattanooga
The new I-86 at Waverly, NY also dips into another state (PA)
There's also I-684 (in NY) which runs almost due North/South, but has a little over a mile running through the corner of Greenwich Connecticut. There's an office complex in Greenwich, CT that you can only get to from the NY side. Approx. Coordinates: [41.096625261733614, -73.72017205404715]
@@mjamaloney Both sections are maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation.
The new I-86 was NY 17 for many years. Jamestown, NY is closer to c
Cleveland than to Binghamton, closer to Toledo, Ohio than to Albany
This is exactly what I was coming here to say.
Thank you so much for your awesome channel and I hope you know how much I appreciate you 🌎
When you were talking about Seattle and snow. I think an interesting fact to most people is that Flagstaff AZ is one of the snowiest cities in the US.
I've only been through flagstaff once in my life, and it was snowing that day, lol.
On a trip out west, within a matter of hours, I went from 115 degrees in Death Valley to 50 degrees in Flagstaff.
Why is that?
@@BaldCaillou I believe it comes down to altitude. Higher altitudes, even in desert climates, will get snow
Catherine Arredondo Lots.
Interstate 84 comes within 9 ft of crossing the New Jersey border when crossing the Delaware from PA to NY
i always liked Wilkes Barre. Haven't been there since 93.
I had thought that the border was between the eastbound and westbound bridges at the middle of the river but that may be to margins of error on maps.
@@timothybarney7257 it comes super close it’s hard to tell on some maps
@@jakebutler291 Hence why I thought it was that way. I drive it quite often (at least I did pre-COVID) as I work just off old exit 4 (Route 17 Middletown) and live about 30-odd miles up Route 209 from Port Jervis NY but am originally from west central PA and that's my main way back home (I-84 to I-81 to I-80 to I-99)
I-84 was originally supposed be in New Jersey, but it would have maybe been a couple miles long, if that. NJ rejected 84, due to the expenses in maintaining it, leading to the alignment as it is.
One cool fact I have is that five counties come to a quintapoint in southern Florida in Lake Okeechobee. I think it’s the only place like that
There was one place in italy where 10 counties bordered each other in the middle of a mountain or something. Thats even crazier
@@haroeneissa790 yeah I’ve heard of that too! It makes you wonder how they agree upon these things
There is a point where Canada’s provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the territories of Northwest Territories and Nunavut all meet. It’s only 4 places, but still.
There is a place in Wisconsin were 4 come together near the dells.
@@dvferyance the are several places in Wisconsin where 4 counties meet at one point. Milwaukee, Washington, Waukesha, and Ozaukee counties are one example.
I had a friend who farmed in Divide County , North Dakota. He had a field that was on the Canadian border. The field was actually a hay slough which was bisected by the US-Canadian border. He was fond of saying that the border in that area was determined by whoever cut hay in that field first, of course, each farmer only cut the hay on his side of the slough.
Kept expecting a mention of the peculiar northern border of Delaware. It's the only border in the US (as far as I know) that is described in terms of a radius from a fixed point.
The 12 mile circle
Measured from the New Castle courthouse.
Surveyors goofed drawing the borders between PA, MD & DE so this was the compromise.
@@blue9multimediagroup yeah but then jersey said fuck your circle so it didnt get completed
maybe he will circle back to that one
I went to college in DE, and learning about the 3 counties in the whole state blew my mind. Also only 1 area code like RI.
Delaware only had one battle during The Revolutionary War for Independence and Philadelphia Pennsylvania is the largest northern city closest to the south!
I’m from Texarkana, and want to make a correction/add info:
While Texarkana is considered “one city” by most people, it is actually two cities.
You could say that Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas are conjoined twin cities, since they do share quite a few municipal services, such as water, and one Chamber of Commerce.
Also, in the Courthouse/Post Office that is situated on the state line, the judges chair in the courtroom is bolted to the floor so that they are always sitting in (and hopefully representing) the two states.
same as Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas.
@@Brimstone-Gaming Not the same. Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO have a river between them, so you can't be in both at the same time (unless you are under water). Texarkana, TX and Texarkana, AR have no river between them, so you can stand, or sit, right on the line.
@@bxdanny not if you are on the overpasses or the bridges. I drove semis all the time there.
Same with Bristol, VA and Bristol, TN.
A man in Arkansas and his ass in Texas...
Pittsburgh and Miami are roughly at the same longitude, and Cleveland and Jacksonville are also roughly at the same longitude!
There are parts of Florida that are west of parts of Chicago.
I blew my brother’s mind when I showed him that Detroit and Tampa are almost identical longitude.
miami huge
@@bernier42 what does that even mean
@@eduardooneal it means you can draw a line vertically from Tampa Florida and it will hit Detroit Michigan
I used to live, at different times, in Chicago, and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both are closer to Texarkana, Texas than El Paso Texas is. You can probably find a lot of similar oddities by measuring the distance between the points in Texas that are farthest apart, and making that distance the radius of a circle centered on either of the two points. Texas is BIG!
Texas is massive, I live in Texarkana and have traveled in texas a lot. So realizing how big it was, it blew my mind when I found out Alaska is almost 3 times bigger!!! Normally the maps we use make Alaska seem smaller then it actually is. Circles don’t lay down flat without morphing something.
I was surprised you didn't mention Lloydminster in Canada, a city in both AB and SK, when you mentioned Texarkana! Unlike Texarkana which is technically a "twin city," though, Lloydminster is truly ONE CITY shared between the two provinces. Cool stuff!
Love your vids (and, yes, excited when I get an alert every time a new one comes out), so thanks Geo King!
There also Bristol VA/TN and Bluefield VA/WV
This is US only
@@Speedster___ He said "a little bit of Canada as well" at the beginning, so was hoping to see Lloydminster on the list!
Lloydminister has one other neat trick. Half the year half the town is in a different time zone
Thank you! I was not aware of the Lloydminster province situation. There's always way more to learn.
Don’t know if this geography, but earlier this I was surprised to learn that the bottom of Lake Erie is actually higher above sea level than the surface of Lake Ontario.
this is mostly because Lake Erie is the shallowest Great Lake by FAR, its deepest point is 210 feet and its average depth is 62 feet. I was honestly surprised that a lake that big could be that shallow
@@andisarna8315 you think that’s nuts, Lake Okeechobee, the big lake in Florida, it’s max depth is 12 feet deep!
@@andisarna8315 Doesn't lake Erie dump into lake Ontario, forming Niagara falls??
I-24 West of Chattanooga is not the only route that enters another state. I-86 in New York dips into Pennsylvania at Waverly NY/South Waverly, PA and I-684 crosses into Greenwich, CT just north of Westchester County Airport. Both sections of road are maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority.
Thank you for the correction. Man that I-86 in PA is quite the sliver! Didn't even notice it without a serious zooming in on the map. And I totally missed 684. I was focused on the main interstates and overlooked the spurs and loops.
I used to drive through that slice of Connecticut on 684 all the time when I was a teenager. And given my penchant for treating the posted speed limit more as a recommendation than a rule, I used to wonder if the New York State Troopers had jurisdiction over that stretch of the interstate. I assumed not, and, as such, would haul ass over that section of the highway, as I'd never seen a CT Trooper on 684.
@@JCDofNYC In the Northeast, all traffic signs are merely "advisory" to locals.... ಠಿ_ಠ
Also according to Google Maps, AR-43 dips into Oklahoma in the vicinity of Maysville - I found this when trying to find routes south from AR into OK after you mentioned it in the video.
@@JCDofNYC ... I did the same for I-15 in the NW corner of Arizona (can't be accessed by AZ, only Utah or Nevada) until I found out that they have shared jurisdiction with their neighboring states. Luckily I never got a ticket through the Virgin River Gorge there.
For a couple years of high school I lived on the border of Hamilton and Marion county in Tennessee and randomly my phone would switch time zones during the night… I was only late to class a couple times 😂
This is one of the best TH-cam channels. I majored in Physical Science and Math in college and took a lot of Earth Science courses, which I enjoyed immensely. Another oddity is that there is a part of Canada that is further south than the northern border of California.
I was surprised that wasn't mentioned, but then, I already knew about it. The population stat was new to me.
@@viddork It also amuses me that the state of California, by itself, has more people than Canada.
Living in Chattanooga, I figured you would’ve mentioned Bristol TN/VA. It’s a city split in two by the state line, if you’re driving down State Street heading East, you’re in TN but if you make a U-turn and head West, you’re in VA. Very neat place to visit.
Yeah I’ve been there plenty of times, also did you know that in Bristol there is a Kroger built mostly in va but a little bit of it goes in tn
Wow I did not know that. I bet that permit process during construction was a cluster $&%#.
I've heard one can see the territories of seven states from atop Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga.
There is a half marathon in Texarkana called Run the Line, the last bit is on State Line, heading south you are in Texas and heading north it is in Arkansas, i tell everyone i ran through 2 states
I-684 in NY passes through a small portion of CT with no exits before returning to NY.
I was thinking of that one too.
I came here to say that.
me too. i was going to post just that fact
Which connects to Interstate 87... which never leaves New York, but is called an Interstate since it meets the standards of the Interstate Highway System
I saw a game show clip, once, with a lady from North, South Carolina. The host had fun with it.
Keep in mind that during the hour of the time change, the portions of FL and OR are at the same time for an hour...
I was a little disappointed that he didn't mention that. It's one of my favorite factoids and the only good reason to keep time changes in place. =)
@@RyanCarpenter that is a fun factoid but definitely not a good enough reason to keep time changes 🙃 (I will die on the "Time changes are just the worst" hill lol)
New England is completely separated from the rest of the country by one state: New York.
Also, New Jersey comes the closest to two states without bordering them: Connecticut and Maryland. Both CT-NY-NJ and MD-DE-NJ are referred to as tri-state areas, though NJ doesn't actually border CT or MD.
Technically, Vermont is not in New England, because it was at one time in New York State!
MD-DE-NJ is not a tri-state area. They have no principal city in common, unless you count Philly, which would make it 4 states with PA
@@orthobro3811 A small section of Maryland is part of the tri-state of PA-NJ-DE. The same goes for northeast PA as part of the tri-state of NY-NJ-CT.
@@dougadkins7006 i didn't even know that nd im from nyc
MD-DE-NJ is more of a quad state area, also including PA. They also call it Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia-Mount Holly MSA or the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA.
I absolutely love your videos. I find them fascinating. Thank you! I love your nerdy type perspective! Please keep doing these videos. With love from a Brit who loves USA!
Would it be possible for me to start a business in west texarkana for no corporate income tax and then pay my personal income to east texarkana and then i dont have to pay taxes? 😂
My favorite episode of any episode of anything on youtube or any tube.
One cool oddity in Washington state goes by the name of "Point Roberts". It's a peninsula in the northern side of the state which is connected to mainland Canada but it's still a part of Washington state. If you live in Point Roberts you would have to cross the Canada border just to get to the rest of Washington state.
There’s a movement for them to join Canada as they are getting fucked over because they can’t go through Canada to get to the rest of the US cuz of corona
Aww I commented this too before seeing this post
I'm pretty sure he covered point Roberts in the first video as that's one of the more commonly known oddities. Maybe not though.
Reminds me of Angel Intel, Minnesota.
@Projekt Kobra Same with the Northeast Angle, IMO. Once we were able to get proper surveys done, a lot of these border quirks could have been solved
Here's one random fact I recently learned: There is just one county east of the Mississippi River that has less than 1 person per square mile: Keweenaw County, Michigan. It's because a large majority of the county is water - Lake Superior, to be exact. It's where Isle Royale National Park is as well.
Lake Superior is awesome
@@eriklakeland3857 Yes it is!
Isle Royale is part of Michigan, but it is accessible by boat from Grand Marais, MN, on the north shore of Lake Superior. I do not believe you can get to Isle Royale from the Keweenaw peninsula.
@@thomasschellberg4235 There is a ferry service from Houghton or Hancock in Keweenaw County to Isle Royale
Isle Royale and the tip of Keweenaw is further north than the northernmost point of Maine! Beware of maps that curl the NE upward.
Great video! I was waiting to see if the time zone thing came up and was excited when it did. But! You stopped short at the tidbit I find most interesting. For one hour a year, when Central time leaps forward one hour in the spring, they have the same time as Mountain time and there are portions of an Atlantic and Pacific state with the same exact time!
Love you geography videos! I am a geography buff myself, and I really enjoy your videos, and I learn a lot! Thank you so much! Always excited for new videos!
Canada also has its own version of Texarkana. The city of Lloydminster is divided by the Alberta / Saskatchewan boundary.
But it's just one city.
A guy was in the hospital in canada and had surgery. Upon recovering, the 1st nurse shift checked on him. The second shift nurse said...everything ok with the patient? She said, yeah, except he had the word "Swan" tatooed on his penis. So the third late night nurse said I have to see this... she came back out after a few minutes and said...that's not Swan...it's Saskatchewan!
@@KB-ke3fi ???
And I had seen a confusing display concerning the city of Flin Flon. Which province it is in depends on which map in the atlas you are looking at.
@@dougmontgomery1868 It's in Manitchewan.
Texarkana reminds me a lot of Bristol, it's also divided between two states.
@Blue2 Sierra it kinda interesting that Virginia has 2 "shared" cities
@@BorninVirginia Texas also has two shared towns. The other one being Texoma, OK/TX located in the panhandle of both states.
@@booboo8706 Texas had fun with it's shared cities names
@@booboo8706 Texoma is a region, not a city.
Texarkana is the only one to have a shared government
You say "nerdy type perspective" like it's something bad!! I, for one, revel in the nerdy type perspective. Another great video, Your Majesty! It's good to be the King!
Speaking of the little sliver of Maryland you referenced, to the best of my knowledge, aside from the Four Corners (i.e., Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico), the shortest distance one can travel and visit four separate States is up through Rte. 552, which in approximately 15 miles, one can drive from Virginia to West Virginia to Maryland to Pennsylvania.
I use the term nerd to be completely complimentary. Nerd power!
If I remember correctly, Alaska had 5 time zones at one time. Anchorage (the largest city) was 2 hours later than Juneau (the state capitol) and Nome was 2 hours later than Anchorage. In 1983 nearly all of Alaska was placed into one time zone. But the Island of Attu is across the international date line so it is really in yesterday.
This is incorrect.
Alaska once boasted being 4 separate Time-zones but now is only 2: Alaska Time & Hawaiian-Aleutian Time. Attu, being a part of Hawaiian-Aleutian Time, is so far away from the rest of Alaska that the International Date Line is drawn such, so to as include it with the rest of the 49th State.
While we’re on the topic of Alaska and geographical oddities…
Did you know Alaska is the Most Northern (Northernmost) State?! This is only true if your count includes ALL 50 States!! (As it should)
Also, if you again Count-in all 50 States (and not just the “Lower 48”), Alaska is also the Westernmost (Most Western) and Easternmost (Most Eastern) State.
It is farther West than Hawaii and farther East than Maine.
My favorite 'genre' you do!
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I grew up in Western Montana, and during the 17 years I lived there (birth to 17 yrs), we crossed the Continental Divide so many times I lost count. Esp when we lived fro 5 yrs in Butte or Anaconda (west of the divide) and on weekends visited relatives in Madison County (east of the divide). The Rocky Mt Divide separates the drainages of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, which is basically a branch of the Atlantic. Most ppl know this one.
But there are OTHER continental divides. The Appalachian crest is one; streams east of it flow directly to the Atlantic coast; those west feed into the Ohio and/or MIssissippi and tributaries, and thence to the Gulf. Easy to see, no?
Well, there is another divide I've seen marked, when I drove from Billings MT to Fargo (then north to Winnipeg bck in 1994), out in the middle of the North Dakota prairie, and it separates the Mississippi River drainage system from that of the Red River of the North (which I came to in Fargo). This Red River flows NORTH to Hudson's Bay and the Arctic ocean. I didn't go farther east than that, but I'm sure there's an equivalent "divide" on the other side of the Red River to separate it from the MIssissippi in Minnesota and Wisconsin, etc.
Also, although the Snake, which rises in Yellowstone and flows across Idaho and to the Columbia feeds the Pacific, if you go over some ridge crests down into Utah and Nevada where you're east of the Sierras, rivers in the Great Basin region of these two states DO NOT flow to any ocean or sea. The Colorado, of course, flows in the Gulf of California, but several rivers in Nevada and Utah flow into some of the basins in this area: (Geologically it's the "basin and range" province) and end up settling into the ground in the lowest lying areas they can reach. These are known as SINKS. The one I'm most familiar with is the Carson Sink, but I've seen several others I never knew the names of while driving across Nevada (on vacation trips back to my home state of MT), and you can see the alkali flats out in those areas where the water drainage ends.
Trivia note: Another thing I saw whilst driving across North Dakota on the Interstate was when I approached the capital city of that state and saw a sign along the freeway that said "Port of Bismark next Exit:"
Well, yeah, the Missouri is navigable to Bismark; I know it's also navigable to Great Falls MT, but for someone who's lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for (mumblety mumble) years, even though I knew it intellectually, that sign was a wakeup call LOL.
Maybe if you can find other inland "port" cities on other rivers with signs like this along the major highways, it might be a fun tour, and I'd watch it with glee.
Side note: University minor was geography (major was French; don't ask), but mother was a geology hobbyist for as long as I can remember, so I love to combine lore from both of these disciplines.
Loved the info.
Im not reading all that but I’m happy for you. Or sad I don’t know
@@brxyann @Adrienne Gormley did warn you.
the basins have many of name from endorheic basin to dead ends
Surprised you didn't mention Port=land. Two rivers and lots of dredging later it is a semi-port, no?
I loved this video so much. It had me smiling and saying "wow" so many times. There were so many geography quirks that I had never heard of.
Cool info just found this channel last week never new I loved this stuff so much I can't stop watching
Welcome to the channel!
In a large part of NC, the fastest way to the ocean is through SC even though NC has a coastline
Yep I always wanted to go to Wilmington, but only had time to go to Charleston
This video is WAY more interesting than I would have ever imagined!!!
Another oddity to add...I live in RI. Despite being the smallest state (only 37 miles wide by 48 miles long) we have over 400 miles of coastline. Much of it beautiful might I add!
Well, that has a lot to do with how you measure coastlines. Technically any portion of land on earth with access to the sea could have an infinitely long coastline depending on how small of measurements you want to take. Math can be counterintuitive!
@@treyshaffer Fractals.
@@mournblade1066 Yep :)
Intriguing, since Connecticut has no coastline.
One of my favorite little towns in your area is McCaysville in the Southern Appalachian valley. The TN/GA state line runs right through the downtown and there is a bar/brewery there with the state line painted on the floor so you can drink a beer in two states at the same time. I think technically they are organized as separate municipalities, but it was always pretty cool when visiting the South Appalachain area for MTB and Hiking trips.
The state line runs through "downtown" Copperhill, TN. Most of McCaysville, GA businesses are across the river. The towns are politically totally separate, with 2 different city councils, but business/tourist wise acts as one bigger town.
@@medic7556 You are correct, I was referring to the Toccoa Ave strip on the Copperhill side. I have been there a couple times when on trips to go Mtn Biking, backpacking in the area. Cool little town to stop in and get a beer and lunch in in the area.
The U.S. is so full of unique geographical qualities, thank you for the video!, from Florida.
Had my teachers flung a few facts like this into the class I might have gotten excited about learning geography!🥳🤯
Public school teachers are paid to dumbdown not educate.
Yay! I've been loving your videos recently, so keep up the great work :)
Thank you. I really appreciate that
You are super! I really enjoy all of your videos! Thanks for keeping me entertained with interesting facts about the US.
Fun fact about Nevada and California: There's this hotel and it has a pool. Since the state border cuts the pool in half, you can wade in Nevada and California at the same time
There's a peninsula attached to Quebec in Lake Champlain that is in Vermont and only accessible in the USA New York or Vermont by bridge.
@@news_internationale2035, that's interesting.
One note about Texarkana -- it is not the only city/town that spans across two states. Delmar is in both Delaware and Maryland, hence the name, very much like Texarkana. The other city that is in two states at once is Bristol, in both Tennessee and Virginia. Both of these cities, like Texarkana, are split by the corresponding state lines.
I was looking for someone to point out Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee.
And don't forget Ardmore AL/TN; it's split between two states and four counties. Madison and Limestone in AL; Giles and Lincoln on the TN side.
He got the state tax situation backwards. You wouldn’t pay taxes on the Texas side of Texarkana
@@jerrellritchie9331 He was stating that the residents of the Arkansas side don't pay state taxes as well as the Texas side. Whereas all other Arkansas residents pay a state income tax.
Cairo, Illinois is located further SOUTH than Richmond, Virginia.
Cairo, Illinois is about 480 miles farther north than Cairo, Egypt.
There's a Cairo in Illinois?!!
How far is Cairo Illinois from Metropolis Illinois?
@@cinamontoast2555 Yes. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
@@295g295 44 miles.
Thank You for the informative content. I enjoyed hearing facts about our country. Your channel is very entertaining. It is easy to retain statistics due to choice of word placement & sentences. You have a good way of delivering your message because of speaking clearly w/o an annoying voice. Great Job! Keep up the sharing of knowledge. You seem like an enthusiastic & patriotic American. -TrashyTodd
👍🏼 Always fun! 😎
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Canada has a city like Texarkana too that’s called Lloydminster, and is about the same size. It’s right between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The entire city follows Mountain Time, and the rest of Saskatchewan doesn’t observe daylight savings. So the SK side of Lloydminater is the only part of SK that changes its clocks.
Flin Flon too (SK and MB)
So, does that make it the armpit of Canada?
Albertchewan
@@gunslingingbird74 no that would be Hamilton, Ontario that's the real armpit or as I call it Canada's Detroit
As a lifetime resident of Michigan, I can say definitively that we're not upset at all about losing the Toledo Strip. We gained the Upper Peninsula out of it. That's a win-win in my book.
Love this. Very informative. The meandering Mississippi can be clearly seen flying north or south into Memphis. You can see where the river used to flow. An interesting fact is that the border between Quebec and Vermont is about one mile north of the 45th Parallel, and a fort was partly built at Rouses Point, New York. It was supposed to be a border fort, but was abandoned when it was discovered that the border was actually a mile north. It was a survey blunder. Same holds true for the town of Derby, Vermont/Quebec, which is split by the international border.
I'm a retired 42 year over-the-road tractor-trailer driver, and I've been pondering these "quirks" for a long time. Ah, the fond memories of keying up the CB radio on that stretch of 77-81 and telling people that it doesn't matter if you're on 81 north or 77 south, you're going east or west. The comments I got would make a truck driver blush. I just watched your little spot on I-24 which dips down into Georgia before continuing back north into Tennessee. There is a similar situation just north of NYC where I-684 cuts off the far south western tip of Connecticut. And then the segue that you love: Speaking of Connecticut, what's the reason for those 2 encroaching peninsulas that come down out of Massachusetts south Of Westfield and Springfield? Looking forward to more geographical conundrums! Also, the Niagara Escarpment is thoroughly fascinating to me!
CT's governor has considered putting a toll gate on that little chunk of I-684!
Mike Troy jeez, that would just be such an overt, obvious money grab, the public backlash would probably make the governor reconsider. One would think, nowadays, anything seems possible.
There's a similar quirk Interstate 24 in TN in NYS. About a mile of Interstate 86 runs trough PA
Waverly/South Waverly!
Also, the northern corner of the Connecticut panhandle is cut off by an interstate.
Also, interstate 684 passes through a mile of Connecticut with New York on both ends.
I was about to comment the same thing, Ive driven that road many a time and his comment that it was the only one immediately jumped out at me, haha
The old route 17. Another quirk about that is that the section of NY17 that ran through PA in Waverly was marked PA17 IIRC, and then when NY17 got to PA at the western border it changed to PA17 until it met up with I-90. So PA had two highways marked PA17 that were separated by a couple hundred miles.
Here is a true west-coast oddity: In Southern California, just south of Santa Barbara, U.S. 101 runs right along the coast for several miles. This section of coastline turns due east-west. So, if one is driving this highway, early on a winter morning, the sun actually appears to be rising from the Pacific Ocean!
Whoa, that just blew my mind. I had to check it on the map, and I'm still having a hard time convincing my brain to believe it, even though I can see how it works right there.
Beaufort, NC is similar. Due to the shape of the coast the sun rises over land and sets over the Atlantic ocean.
If thou did not know where thou was, this could be very concerning.
Now the homeless trash blocks that beautiful sight
@South Texas no worse than looking at billions of dollars worth of cookie cutter houses. Don't be pretentious, you pompous tart. You're no better than anyone else.
I enjoy your videos. This one was probably my favorite yet. Tha k you and keep it up
Something pretty cool about where I live in my opinion is the fact that Salisbury, MD is between 2 and 2.5 hours away from 5 different major metropolitan areas/cities in 5 different states/city-states.
Philadelphia, PA
Norfolk, VA
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Washington D.C.
Whenever someone asks me what’s the closest major city all I can say is, “it’s complicated.” 😂
So which sports team do you root for?
@@C4rea Easy. Teams that aren’t from the area cause I actually grew up overseas so teams that got coverage internationally (Steelers, Lakers, etc) 😂
this is the first time ive ever heard someone call wilmington a major city
@@RelatedNameHere Well, I guess it's the majorest city in Delaware, right?
Does Wilmington really count? I mean, I know it does clearly have a different city identity, but it's not very big and important and it is quite overshadowed by/has a contiguous urban complex with Philly
My favorite US geographic oddity (learned from an old AAA TourBook): It is farther to drive from Walnut Hill, Florida to Key West (862 miles), than it is to drive from Walnut Hill, Florida to Chicago (849 miles (via I-65/US-41)).
El Paso to Orange TX is further than Orange to Jacksonville FL and further than El Paso to San Diego CA.
Brownsville to Texas panhandle is further than the panhandle to Canada.
Here's a better one: the northernmost European capital is as far north of New York City as NYC is north of Key West, Florida...
Shortest route from Crescent City, Ca to Blythe, CA is 954 miles. You don't want to live in either of them.
For Texarkana section:
Texas has NO tax income, Arkansas DOES have income tax. You flipped it.
He might not have said it very clearly, but he did get it right: "If you live in Texarkana, AR, you don't pay state income taxes - as if you lived on the Texas side."
Yeah he said it right, just the phrasing was open to confusion.
@@Jesse__H So is he saying the Arkansas state income tax doesn't apply to people who live Arkansas side of Texarkana? That actually is interesting if so.
He got it the way you said it. But he also said it was the only city separated by a state line, but there are tons of those. Texarkana is just bigger.
Literally unwatchable
When I lived in Huntsville AL, I always thought it was interesting that Huntsville got about 1-3/4 inches of snow and Nashville got six inches.
Near where I live you have to drive south to get into North Carolina, and north to get into South Carolina. On the commute in and out you're flipping your visor every which way.
That goofy state line south of Charlotte
You should look at Delmar, MD and Delmar, DE. It’s another scenario of a city or town being so big that it exists in two states simultaneously. Consequently, everyone on the Maryland side goes to Wicomico County schools, while everyone on the Delaware side goes to their schools. For those who want to be on Jeopardy, Delmar is 2/3 the name of the peninsula that the folks here live on: The Delmarva peninsula
Kaskaskia, the first capital city of Illinois, is now on the Missouri side of the Mississippi river, after a flood in 1881 changed the flow of the river.
HI Carl, Your channel is the only geography channel I watch!! A few interesting geographical tidbits for ya... #1. South Point, HI (on "the Big Island of Hawaii) is more southern than Mexico City, Mexico & in fact, is the southernmost point of any US soil. #2 For the most part (Honolulu, a notable exception), city government is nonexistent, most islands are in the county of the same name of their respective island & a county council & mayor exist for each of their entire island!! The Big Island, as it's referred to almost always, is aptly caoled that to differentiate when referring to the name of the island, county or state (Hawaii Island in Hawaii County in the state of Hawaiiin this instance) Honolulu excluded).#3. Hawaii is perpetually the fastest-growing state, growing in size with every lava flow & eruption that makes it past it's shoreline (or spews from the ocean's floor, just past the coastline. This almost always results in attaching to the Big Island above the sea level &/or below! #4.The Big Island also loses upwards of hundreds of acres, where chunks of the southern part of the island will break off & just drop to the bottom of the ocean, from earthquakes & volcanic pressure below the ground's surface, Over 300 acres had broke off, unbeknownst to the various HVO scientists. #5 While not among the largest land area states, the area of ocean Hawaii & it's hundreds of atolls, islands & still forming islands, makes Hawaii among those having the largest amount of ocean shoreline. #6 The Hawaiian state flag is the only state flag that includes the flag of another sovereign nation.
Dalhart, Texas is closer to six other state capitals than its own in Austin: Santa Fe, New Mexico: Denver, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Oklahoma City Oklahoma; Topeka Kansas, and Lincoln Nebraska.
Texline, Texas is 4 miles closer to Canada than it is to Brownsville, Texas.
Really? I’ve been through dalhart once, and it was a beautiful little town. I have fond memories of the texas panhandle, but I guess I never realized how far it was from Austin
I've been to Dalhart!
I grew up in Omaha and had an uncle who lived in Carter Lake. When I was younger it always seemed like such an adventure going "all the way to Iowa" to visit him.
Pantechnicon when you travel to or from the Omaha Airport, Eppley Field, on Abbot Drive you pass signs that say welcome to Iowa.
Michigan did not "loose" the boundary war with Ohio. In return for the "Toledo Strip" going to Ohio, Michigan obtained the entire Upper Peninsula. All things considered, that is a net win. :-) Our dislike of The Ohio State is, well it is Ohio.
O-H!
Lose = to not have. Loose = not tight.
You've got Jim for another 6 years, thank you
Yeah, Wisconsin lost the Michigan Ohio boudry war
As someone who lives in nearby indiana we say Ohio and Michigan nearly went to war over the state line. Ohio lost it got stuck with Toledo
An oddity on Washington's Olympic Peninsula: The Hoh Rainforest is the only temperate rain forest in North America with about 140 inches a year. Travel a straight line distance of about 40 miles north east to the town of Sequim and you'll be in an area that receives around 23 inches a year.
MN state highway 23 actually runs through a little part of Wisconsin for a couple thousand feet. There's an auto body shop with an address given as "2994 MN-23, Superior, WI"
I like the oddity of the Walkill River, which runs from south to north in New York State but is parallel and just about 30 west of the Hudson River which flows from north to south.
If there's a North, South Carolina then there really needs to be a South, North Carolina.
The bigger question is where has East and West Carolina been this whole time?
As some one who lives in NC, we might not have a “south” North Carolina, but we definitely have places that act like the middle of Texas.
@@abigailjean7131 West, Texas isn't too far from the middle of Texas.
@@rembrandt972ify West, Texas is north of Waco. The interesting part is that West, Texas has never been in the western part of the state despite the border changes.
@@howardbaxter2514 West is almost due north of Waco.
You are the encyclopedia 101. Very entertaining Very educational. I’m learning so much geographically about this country Thank you keep it up brother.
My favourites - Atlanta is west of Detroit. And in a straight line, Melbourne is closer to Singapore than Brisbane
My hometown (Detroit, Michigan) is east of where I now work, Cherokee, North Carolina! (Detroit is slightly west of where I live now, Waynesville, North Carolina.)
Some more whacky facts about South Carolina town names!
1. North, South Carolina is located roughly in the center of the state-but the town of Central, South Carolina is in the northwest corner of the state.
2. If you're traveling south from North (lol) along route 321, you'll pass the three tiny towns of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, all in about 20 minutes. (And, if you keep going for another 45 minutes or so, you'll hit the town of Switzerland, too.)
🤣🤣 Now that's 😎 cool!
Also, if you leave Charlotte, NC by crossing the Buster Boyd Bridge over Lake Wylie you are heading north, into SC.
Interesting thing about the Oxbow at Vicksburg that you mentioned. The fort that was placed on the bend in the river that was instrumental to controlling the Mississippi during the Civil War before the union took it over, is now on a lake, where it would serve no useful function.
Oh I don't know about that. It's awfy hard to storm a fortress that is surrounded by water on all sides. It's why back in the middle ages they built moats around castles.
This is my favorite US geography oddity videos! I love this channel!