16 Oddities of U.S. Geography
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- Examining 16 odd and quirky aspects of U.S. geography. With such a huge country as the U.S. there are bound to be some oddities and quirks with the geography. In this video I discuss several of these funny and strange aspects.
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Hey everyone. I wanted to say thank you for all of the comments on this video. There's been a lot of activity on this channel recently and I've been struggling to keep up with the comments. If you've commented or asked me a question and I haven't gotten back to you, I am trying to keep up but I may not be able to get to them all. But I did want to address one particular topic that represents at least a couple hundred of the comments here.
In the video I stated that the only four cities in the country where the city and county are the exact same thing are San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, and Broomfield, CO. Many commented on how there are numerous places in the US that have a consolidated city-county government (the most mentioned ones are Jacksonville, Nashville, Lexington KY, Augusta, Indianapolis, Kansas City KS and Honolulu). These were created to have increased efficiency in government services including law enforcement, schools, trash pickup, utilities, etc. The situation in those cities is a little different than the four I mentioned. For example, Jacksonville-Duval County, FL does not include the entirety of Duval County. A few beach communities (Jax Beach, Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach) opted out of the agreement, so there are portions of the county that are not under the Jax-Duval consolidation. Kansas City KS, Augusta, and Indianapolis also have opt-outs. For Nashville, individual towns have some autonomy for things such as sign ordinances and noise ordinances. Alaska has some interesting outliers where vast areas of wilderness are often under the jurisdiction of the city-borough consolidation. Nantucket, MA is also unique in that the town has a population of 7,400 and the county 10,100, although they are one jurisdiction and MA calculates census places a little different than the rest of the US. Honolulu is different in that a person can be nowhere near the city (like say the North Shore) but still be in "Honolulu". It also includes several outlier islands that are nowhere near Oahu. The situation in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, and Broomfield is different in that the literal urban built up area of the city limits is the exact same as the county. There is no distinction or consolidation of services. A neighborhood cannot opt out. There are no areas that are not 100% built up city that exist within the county. In the city-county consolidations there are many rural areas that are part of the jurisdiction but clearly not part of the city for anything other than efficiency of services. It's a fairly thin line but if you are familiar with SF, Philly, or Denver you know the distinction. The most similar ones would be the Cities of St. Louis, Baltimore, and Carson City NV. These three are independent cities but none of those three is in a county at all. Arlington, VA is different in that it is a county only and not a city. And finally I did not mention in the video but just as strange is the fact that New York City is divided into five counties, with each borough being its own county, making it the only city where the city government is of higher order than the county. Ok so that's a ridiculously long post but it just goes to show how US geography can be weird sometimes. Thanks again for all of your comments.
I am from Monteagle, Tennessee 45 mins away from Chattanooga
Was looking for the NYC oddity...5 counties in one city. Thanks!
In your discontiguous section there's also a part of Kentucky off the Mississippi that you have to go through Tennessee to get to and surrounded by Missouri.
Philly is certainly completely city now, but after the City's boundary was pushed out to include all of the county, there were very large sections that were not at all built up. NE Philly was built out post world war two. Even after living here 40+ years I still can't predict what services are done by the county, I think because of State regulations, such as some of the courts, and which are done by the City. The differences are in name only.
Thanks for the video
The farther north you go in Florida, the deeper down south you get.
@glad I have white privilege
South of Orlando....
Same with maine
True piece of Human Geography (says the Ohioan who's moving to St. Pete in 6 months.
@glad I have white privilege what if I-10 Is only 10 minutes north?
@glad I have white privilege Born in Gainesville FL you imbecile of a human being
This guy's straight to the point, accurate, no filler content at all, and has genuinely interesting videos. He's like the anti-youtuber.
We should add him to the intellectual dark web. Someone call Eric Weinstein!
No annoying/distracting music. It's a really great thing.
@Duke of Markus Completely accurate because he says in the contiguous U.S.
@Duke of Markus I figured as much. I actually went back before I replied because I thought he said it that way, but wanted to be sure.
@Duke of Markus 🤣 Alaskan like "Come on, man! Give us our due." It's on my list to get up there one day.
My favorite US geographical oddity is that Alaska has not only the northern and westernmost points in the US, but technically also the easternmost. Semisopochnoi, one of the Aleutian Islands, lies about ten miles beyond the 180th meridian, making it the easternmost US point in the eastern hemisphere. The westernmost point is the Aleutian island of Amatignak, which is only about 71 miles from Semisopochnoi in opposite hemispheres.
Did you mean the Easternmost point in the northern hemisphere?
@@brent829Well both are true in this case lol. Specifying the easternmost point in the US in the eastern hemisphere was probably just to remind people that it’s further east than, say, Guam.
I love this one.
It is the eastern most part of the United States, North America, the Eastern and the Western Hemispheres
@@brent829
He meant what he said.
I love how this guy just powers through his presentation , without a ton of distracting movie clips or sound effects. Interesting stuff, without wasting time. Thanks GeoKing!
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on this video, but that was pretty quirky
i am not upset about it either
hey lithium
Same
@@willsimmons9098 i think the guy is very much an individual moving to his own drummer. he makes these facts fun - one reason being he is so obviously enjoying himself. you go bro.
@@kayskidf1 he does a good job!
My favorite US geographic oddity is the fact that Virginia extends further west than West Virginia.
The westernmost point in Virginia has seven? state capitals closer than Richmond.
@Sponge Bob 😂😂😂😂😂
@@geoffroi-le-Hook it’s actually 8: Frankfort, Charleston, Raleigh, Nashville, Columbia, Atlanta, Columbus, and Indianapolis, and it is only 6 miles further from Montgomery than it is from Richmond
At one point West Virginia was part of Virginia.
@@donotneed2250 That is the true context! But that fact is the *_reason_* this becomes a geographical oddity.
Your section on cities and counties reminded me that New York City has five counties inside of its city limits. The five counties correspond to the five ""boroughs" of NYC, but the boroughs and the counties have different names, with one exception. Here are the five boroughs followed by their county name: Manhattan/New York County; The Bronx/Bronx County; Brooklyn/Kings County; Staten Island/Richmond County; and Queens/Queens County.
2 exceptions , Bronx and Queens
@@jesuschristiskingandsavior461 No
_The Bronx_ is the name of the borough and _Bronx_ is the name of the county
As a structural engineer I’m pleased you’re telling people about seismic risks outside the West Coast. Great video,as always, thanks
I really like your low-hype presentation. It is very refreshing compared to rankings etc.
I feel exactly the same way!
One of the best things is that there is no music. Thank you for that.
He's being himself not trying to create an image. That's why I listen. Plus he makes sure to hit all the points
My favorite fun fact is that Portland, OR is further north than Toronto. Which also means that Seattle and Vancouver are also further north. All three PNW cities are known for rain and moderate weather, while toronto is known for snow while being further south.
I'm from Portland and never heard this. Interesting
Yup. The entire state of Washington is north of the entire state of New York. Portland is about equal latitude to Montréal; 45°30'.
check out Madawaska ME real north
Have you looked at Europe?
I live 53 degrees north with similar weather as the north west USA.
I live about 530 miles further north than Portland OR.
And even places like Denmark, Scotland and Sweden are quite a bit further north.
It’s because they are beside the ocean
It’s amazing flying out of Vegas and you can literally see where one person’s backyard ends and 100s of miles of vast empty desert begins
Another interesting fact is how the earthquake mentioned in Missouri rerouted the Mississippi River causing fulton county Kentucky to become landlocked by Tennessee and Missouri. Also it’s always been mind blowing to me that the entire mainland United Kingdom is north of the entire contiguous United States
Ofc it’s north…. Do you mean like directly north?
@@jesuschristiskingandsavior461 because the weather in the UK is milder than a lot of the north USA, people expect the uk's latitude to be even with new england or so, not realizing that its latitude is far enough north to not overlap with the contiguous usa. I certainly was surprised, considering london hardly gets snow meanwhile in minnesota where I grew up it reaches -20F windchills on a yearly basis. that's air currents and ocean proximity for ya, though!
Every resident of the UK lives further north than almost all of the population of Canada.
There is an area of SE Oregon that is in the Mountain Time Zone and the western part of the Florida panhandle is in the Central Time Zone, thus parts of Oregon and Florida are only one hour apart!
And during the DST switch, those two areas have the same time for an hour.
Wow. That is amazing
Wow 😱
Going from Pensacola to Atlanta and forgetting that can get you in a big heap.
Here in Arizona we have no daylight savings time. During the summer we are 3 hours behind the east coast and during the winter we are 2 hours behind. It can get a little confusing.
“And now, the quirks and features of U.S. Geography.” - Doug Demuro
THIIIIIIIIS is a geography channel!
And now its time for the dougscore
@@GeographyKing I’m so happy you got that! You’re the best!! Fun video to watch and I’m not that big into geography but that definitely had my attention
@@GeographyKing haha you just earned a subscriber for that 👊😂😂
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Lexington and Louisville, KY both are cities that annexed the entire county for what is called County-Urban I believe. The first city I heard of doing this was Jacksonville, Florida and is one of the reasons it had such a large land area for a city.
I find all of these interesting. I'm glad I stumbled upon these. Thanks, Kyle, for putting something like this together.
Fun fact: North Carolina is the only state with EXACTLY 100 counties.
@Jrod Jrod there are a lot of smaller counties in terms of population out by the coast and mountains, but you have counties like Durham, Mecklenburg, Guilford, and Wake that have several hundred thousand residents.
@Jrod Jrod it's also not excessive when you consider the fact that 96 out of the 100 counties have at least 10,000 people.
Here, Georgia has 159 counties. Even weirder, Kentucky has 120 yet only 4.5 million people. Then Texas has over 250 yet some counties have less than 1000 people in them
Iowa has 99
Iowa has 99 counties, and it's only because we have one county that's twice as big as the rest lol
FINALLY someone calls out West St. Paul and its crimes.
I feel like there's more I need to learn about West St. Paul...
I've heard it's moving soon.
If I were to guess. West St Paul got its name because it's on the West bank of the Mississippi
@@TheKeksadler It's also sorta on the east bank. The mississippi forms basically the east, west, and northern boarder of West St. Paul.
Though, you're right, technically it is on the west bank of the river.
@@herranton West Saint Paul is named that because it it next to the area in St. Paul called "The West Side" which is the section of St. Paul that is West of the Mississippi River. The rest of the city of St Paul is east of the Mississippi River.
this was super interesting! and i can’t say how refreshing it is to see/hear a really person sharing the information
This was great.!!! Thanks for putting this out. I wish it was longer. Definitely subscribed
I was always surprised how far west Florida extends. Pensacola, Florida is further west than Washington Island, Wisconsin.
Dang I had no Idea!
Thank you for using Washington island as reference
My head hurts because of this fact. Thanks
I live just to the south of West Palm Beach. When I would drive to my dad’s place in Ardmore Oklahoma I’d stop at a friend’s place in Pensacola. It’s a 10 hour drive. Then 10 hours to Ardmore. Also, I live closer to two foreign country capitals than my own state capital.
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My favorite weird quirk is "The fastest way from Detroit to Buffalo is through London."
That's London, Ontario, of course.
Back when my alma matre, Wayne State U (Detroit) had an ice hockey team, they had a tournament in Niagara, NY. They wanted to bus through Canada, but because they had a player from Russia, who couldn't go into Canada, they had to bus "the long way" through the US.
@@stevejacks8389 Yep, the 401. Quickest way to Niagra from Detroit.
In England you can drive from Boston (my home town) to New York in about 30 minutes. New York is a tiny village, Boston is a port town.
Dude your account is the best. You get straight to the point at waste no time, and your insanely entertaining.
El Paso, TX is closer to San Diego, CA (724 miles) than it is to Houston, TX (773 mi)!
Beaumont, Texas is also closer to Jacksonville, Florida (786 miles) than it is El Paso, Texas (827 miles).
@@MrSRArter Wow I had never heard that one. That's crazier than the San Diego one - Beaumont is closer to the east coast than the western part of its state.
I’ve had to drive from Houston to San Diego. Had to stop in Texas overnight.
Texas is bigger than most countries lol it takes 18 hours to drive from the red river to rio grande
@@KingfisherTalkingPictures "The sun have riz, the sun have set, and here we is, in Texas yet."
The three most important capitals in Egyptian history, Memphis, Alexandria, and Cairo, all on the Nile River, have American namesake cities on the Mississippi River: Memphis, Tennessee; Alexandria, Louisiana; and Cairo, Illinois.
Alexandria is not on the Mississippi river
@@billybrossette2651 True, but it is close. I think there is another Alexandria, maybe in Missouri, that is right on the river. I’ll look it up when I have some spare time..
@@allanrichardson1468 Yes, there is: It is right on the river. The Alexandria in Minnesota is not.
Yeah sure, but Cairo Egypt is pronounced Cairo, whereas Cairo Illinois is pronounced KAY-ro because southern illinois doesn't pronounce a lot of things right. Cf. Vienna Illinois being pronounce VAI-enna.
@Christopher Smith And of course the plantation owners thought they were Pharaohs! ;~}
I really appreciate your content, and this video especially due to the little tidbits of strange yet interesting information about this great US of A. You lift my spirit!
This was a fun video. I'm checking to see if you've done others like it. Great job 👍
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When daylight savings time ends in the Central timezone and 2am CDT becomes 1am CST, for 1 hour it is the same time in western Florida and eastern Oregon.
Nice.
That’s a good one.
I wonder if that would get under the skin of Oregonians... 🤔
Also, parts of AZ and IN (?) either observe no DST or a 1/2 hour difference.
@@natewilson111 Nah, it's kinda cool.
South Detroit only exists in Journey's song "Don't Stop Believing".
Correct
South Detroit = Windsor
@@barrylieberman5611 I feel like journey was giving off a more Dearborn kind of vibe
South Detroit is Delray
@@sheepdavis SW Detroit, but yes.
Dix Winger Insane Clown Posse.
I love stuff like this! Thank you so much for sharing your research!
This is my first time enjoying your videos. Travel and geography are favorite topics of mine. I’m sure you have this already, but one of my favorite trivia questions is, “From what state can you go south into all 6 adjoining states?” The answer is Arkansas! Now that’s a quirk!
Hi Carl, it probably blows people’s minds, but you are exactly correct, and you can go south from Arkansas into Missouri. In the “Boot Heel”, of course.
Wow, bless the CZcams algorithm for bringing me this video today. I loved how straight to the point and no nonsense you are. This was both entertaining and informative.
@@jasondial9274 taking my comment as anything other than a joke is insane.
My favorite quirk is that the most eastern state of the U.S. is...Alaska...the Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian...where east begins...this makes Alaska the most northern, western, and eastern state...With Hawaii as the most southern...
Or that Maine is the closest state to Africa.
East and West don't 'begin" anywhere. East is defined as being towards the rising sun and west is towards the setting sun. The Eastern most point, i.e. the furthest you can go in the direction of the rising sun is in Maine.
@@edwardmeade
What about Greenwich Mean Time? Doesn't that "define" East and West?
@@larrybe2900 No
@@larrybe2900 Think about it. GMT and the International Date Line are less than 200 years old. East and West as concepts go back millennia. Just to hammer home the relational rather than positional nature of east and west, the easternmost point in the U.S. is "West" Quoddy Point nr. Lubeck ME. Why "West"? Because it was named by sailors and because it's on the western side of Quoddy Narrows. East Quoddy Point is in New Brunswick.
Great video, love the way you present the content, straight to the point
And I love your channel! The facts, the subject matter…very interesting and engaging. Thank you!
I love #2. I live in the Detroit suburbs and when I was in the US Marines, I would tell people that I lived just north of Canada. Everyone assumed that meant that I was from Alaska.
Heard on a quiz, "What COUNTRY is directly south of Detroit?", I started looking at So America, til I looked CLOSER.
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I remember talking to an exchange student from Detroit while at university (in England). When I said how cool I thought it was that Detroit was north of Canada he swore blind that I was wrong. Imagine growing up your whole life and never looking at a map of the city you live in.
@@simonadams5073 Oh man, that's embarrassing. I hate it when others represent us poorly overseas. Unfortunately, it happens too often!
@@Savage3OO6 Hehe. I know what you mean. He was a pretty cool guy. If we’d kept in touch I imagine he’d laugh about it now.😊
There's a small portion of Alaska that crosses the international date line, making it further east than maine, so its the furthest north, east, and west state in the US
Ok...my mind is truly and irrevocably scrambled. LOL
The International Date Line is and imaginary line so that makes Alaska an imaginary Eastern state.
@@HugeWolf1 all the lines are imaginary.
@@deborahdanhauer8525 All lines are not imaginary.
@@louf7178 The Earth herself doesn't have those little lines that make up countrys, states, longitude, latitude or international date lines etc... That was what I was talking about. What are you talking about?
Thanks for the information! That was some neat stuff!
Thanks for sharing this fascinating information. I have travelled most of the continental US and find it quite interesting.
One of my favorite quirks comes straight from your neck of the woods. If you are driving eastbound on interstate 24 in Tennessee, towards Chattanooga; you will reach the state of Georgia before you reach Chattanooga. Being a trucker, I notice so many little oddities. Great video, loved it!
Yes! I went to college in north GA and it was so close to the boarder that we had this situation a lot when we would travel with friends or for a school trip. GA ope, TN, back in GA, oop TN again
There are 6 state capitals west of LA: Juneau, Honolulu, Olympia, Salem, Sacramento, and Carson City.
19 state capitals are west of LA. Only six are west of L.A.
@@SlidellRobotics lol, pedantics.
@@SlidellRobotics I'm from L.A. and I don't mean Lower Alabama. This is what I use to tell people all the time years ago.
@@johnknapp952 LA is the state abbreviation for Louisiana
This is how you do one of these things. Briskly edited and packed with fun information. So many videos meander endlessly and repetitively before getting to the point teased in the title.
I gotta tell ya sir. I just love these factoids ! Happy to subscribe !
The interior of the Nashville Airport (BNA) has its own zip code but as soon as you step outside of the terminal, you're in a different zip code
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Nothing unique about that. For example, banks and universities can have their own ZIP code.
Some buildings in NYC, such as Empire State Bldg, are in their own zip code.
Edwardsville, Kansas has the same zip code as western Kansas City, Kansas.
Also Shawnee Mission is not a real town. It's a postal destination for multiple cities on the Kansas side of the KC metro
This man correctly pronounced all the metro Atlanta counties - bravo, sir!
Atlanta should be like St. Louis, not really a part of real Georgia anymore, like another country.
But can he pronounce Taliaferro?
@@gregpeterman1102 huh? Dude Atlanta is the HEART of Georgia.
@@jakethesnake1366 This one is always my test for non-Georgians. Because there’s no logical reason why Taliaferro should be pronounced the way it is
Sounds like a racist connotation
Good job !! I enjoyed your video!
When he mentioned Reno being west of LA, I figured he'd give similar comparisons on the east coast.
Because Florida is on the east coast, everyone assumes it's pretty far east, so you'd stay near the east coast if you just travel due north. And if you follow the highways that go along the coast, they're right. I-95 will take you straight up the coast from Miami to Maine. But that's because it travels north-northeast from southern Florida, not straight north.
If you look at a map, most of the Florida peninsula is actually the same longitude as Ohio. Miami on the east coast of Florida is actually just slightly further west than Pittsburgh, in western PA.
Part of the Florida Panhandle is actually on Central time.
"Ain't this place just a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!"
"But I'm a Dapper Dan man."
I don’t want FOP .....
It didn’t look like a one horse town, but try to find a decent hair jelly.
Oh, brother 🤦♥️
Another weird quirk: The city of El Paso, Texas is actually closer to the city of Los Angeles, California than it is to Houston, Texas.
I believe that. When I moved from Southern California to South Florida, I took I-10, which crosses Texas at its widest point. Took the better part of two days to get across it.
The Beaumont/Orange, TX area is closer to the Atlantic Ocean than it is to El Paso. Coming into Texas from Louisiana on I-10 there's a highway sign that says, "El Paso 857 miles." From the southern tip of Texas to the northern border of the Panhandle is almost as far as from the Panhandle to Canada.
Interesting. Maybe as the crow flies? But hard to tell. According to google maps, driving distance is 745 miles to Houston but 801 miles to Los Angeles.
@transitfan954 You need to get a faster car.
Beaumont, TX not Houston
El Paso is closer to LA than it is to Beaumont, TX.
Beaumont, TX is closer to Jacksonville, FL than it is El Paso
Thank you for some of the most interesting content on CZcams. Where I live, in San Juan County, WA, we only have a single incorporated city in the entire county, Friday Harbor.
Loved your video!
This video put a smile on my face, I can tell how much you enjoy geography and sharing it with people :)
Thank you! And yes I love geography!
There's an added bonus - Many folk in other parts of the World reckon the USA a pretty interesting place, but even if we get to visit the chances of seeing even a fraction of this stuff is minimal.
Hell, I'm a Brit. Texans claim the could fit our entire landmass in their one state eight times over ...... And I doubt I've seen more than half of Britain yet.
Great stuff - Cheers.
Here's another one: the southern most tip of Ontario is at the same latitude as the nothern most tip of California 🙃
Toronto is further south than Paris, that is what always impresses me.
Only parts of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are further north than the northernmost point of the United States
27 states are partially or entirely north of Pelee Island in Lake Erie, the southern most point in Canada. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
Well! That’s interesting!
Do you mean the southern most tip of mainland Ontario or are you including Peelee Island north of Ohio in Lake Erie?
4 minutes in and these are some quirky oddities. Thanks for sharing these.
Love your passion on this topic.
At 9:29 ...The earthquake in Missouri was so powerful, it made the Mississippi River flow in reverse for a short while...
And church bells in Boston ring.
But it flowed backwards because it opened up a barrier to former flood plains that formed the finger lakes.
It re-routed a portion and left what is now called Reelfoot lake. Reelfoot was a river flowing into the Miss. before the earthquake and is now a huge bayou , shallow water awesome wildlife area
Yes, this was from uplift of large tracts of land from a series of earthquakes generated in the New Madrid Seismic Zone!
@@markc3986 Great bass hole too !
Alaska is the most northerly, easterly and westerly state in the US. (The Aleutian Islands cross 180 degrees longitude)
Yes. While they do cross the 180th, the International Date Line actually makes a jog to include that last island to the western time zone.
Drat... I wanted to comment that 😝
Well that hurts my head.
But you are ignoring the international date line.
@@BillSmith-rx9rm which has nothing to do with longitude. Or east/west.
I'm addicted to your site!!
Love this channel
Having lived in Alaska, I kept hoping to hear of some of the 49th state's peculiarities. Hyder Alaska is basically a suburb of Stewart, BC, with most of its services provided from Canada. Juneau has a whole set of glaciers within its boundaries.
Everyone in Whittier lives in one building
Juneau is one of four cities in Alaska all of which are geographically bigger than Rhode Island. The biggest 3 have a combined population of about 43,000. Those numbers blow me away.
@@Johnnyrouger Well OK
But they don't have a Chicken named after them either.
You get a Chicken named after you, you've arrived.
(Maybe that needs a '?' at the end after 'arrived').
Juneau was surprising small, I could see how Roslyn WA could be a substitute.
Juneau is also unique in that it's the only US state capital that there are no roads into. You must float or fly to get there.
I grew up in a city in Virginia. For the longest time I just assumed cities were completely separate from the counties they reside in and they had their own municipal laws, their own school system, their own public works department, etc. It wasn't until I found an online article about "independent cities" that specifically stated Virginia was an outlier that I realized my definition of a city was only valid in my home state.
I'm in a similar boat with NY.
I've never heard of an "unincorporated" area before since, as he said, all towns and cities are in a county.
And, why do some states call themselves "commonwealths"?
Same here. I live in Florida now and it's very confusing.
I grew up in Massachusetts and had an almost polar opposite experience. In MA, every single square foot of the state belongs to a town or city; there is no such thing as "unincorporated territory." You are in a town or a city until you leave that town or city's border, then you're in another town or city. There is no empty space in between that belongs to just the county. This makes counties in MA pretty useless. We have 13 of them, but only 5 have any form of county government. When I got to college and chatted to someone who mentioned that back home their taxes were cheaper outside the town in the county, I was extremely confused.
I’ve lived in Virginia my entire life and never realized there was anything weird about that.
Similar to the way towns and cities in NY are very different than Georgia, where things are largely county based
I really enjoyed this video!
“Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!” 😂
I love how happy he looks talking about geography
Here’s one:
Texas is so large that the distance between Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso. And El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than it is to Texarkana
Wow, I had to double check that! Great post.
I live in Waco central Texas. We are a long way from everybody.
@@aj402 loved Waco, still have family out there
Here’s another crazy Texas fact: Dallhart, TX is closer to 6 other state capitals than it is to Austin, TX: Oklahoma City, OK, Topeka, KS, Santa Fe, NM, Lincoln, NE, Denver, CO, and Cheyenne, WY.
@@theleftuprightatsoldierfield That's a good one! Being a native Texan (Austin-born & bred) AND a geography nut, I thought I knew all of the geography-related Texas trivia, but I have never heard this one. Interesting!
Very interesting, thank you! I had an assignment in geography class in junior high many years ago to figure out how many states in the US would fit in Texas. I wish I could remember the results as that was more than 45 years ago. The other interesting quirk here in Kansas was in the 80’s when you were heading North on US 69, West on K-96 and East on on US 160. Tell me, how is it possible to go three direction at the same time? I used to have a picture of the highway signs all lined down the same pole. Another fun one we found was in Pittsburg, Kansas where on one side of the street you were at Northwest Street E AND West Southeast St N then on the opposite corner of the same intersection it was the reverse. A little confusing. I have traveled all across the United States and in my travels come across some mighty strange stuff that is really hard to believe. In St Joseph Missouri you have to drive into Kansas (Elwood) to get to Rosecrans Airport across the Missouri River from St Joseph and still in Missouri. The river flood caused that little phenomenon in 1951 when the Missouri River flooded and cut a new path which excluded the small area around Rosecrans. Omaha’s Eppily Airfield is the same way causing you to have to go into Iowa on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River to cross back into Nebraska. Strange but very true. 😊
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I lived near Knoxville, Tennessee for years. I now live in northern Nevada. The entire population of northern, central, and eastern Nevada (every man, woman, child, and baby) can fit into Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.
Go Vols
Hamilton County, NY is 2,000 square miles with only 4,000 people. That's only 2 people per square mile......in New York!!
That might say as much about Knoxville's absurdly large stadium as it does about the population of northern, central, and eastern Nevada. :-/
GBO!!
@@hyzercreek NYS gets overshadowed by NYC so much. There are parts of the Adirondacks that are remote and really off the grid. Inland and Northern Maine is another part of the east coast that is also sparsely populated
With the exception of Alaska, the entire United States is further south than the southernmost point of the island of Great Britain.
The French Riviera and all of mainland France are further north than Boston, Mass.
Europe is just higher latitude than North America in general. I live in southern California and an example of a foreign city at the same latitude as me would be Damascus
I grew up in the Kansas City area. Roads on the Kansas side follow a true N-S grid, while on the Missouri side, North is slightly off. It's easiest to spot if you look at State Line Road that divides the two states for much of the KC metro area. Missouri land was surveyed using the fifth principal meridian (1815), while Kansas was surveyed using the sixth meridian (1855).
Love this kind of information video. One addition to your report is that Indianapolis and Marion County are also one government, making a fifth to your list. "Unigov" was instigated by then mayor Richard Lugar in roughly 1968, unifying the city and county governments.
During one earthquake in Missouri, the Mississippi River actually moved BACKWARDS for almost two hours [ as the ground beneath, rose up‼️
This was very well documented.
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Well that's TERRIFYING. Neat.
@@hanananah
The New Madrid [ pronounced MAdrid] Fault in Southern Missouri Earthquake of February 1812 was felt as Far East as the Carolinas❗️
It was really a series of quakes lasting from December 1811- Feb. 1812, with thousands of aftershocks . Over 1800 aftershocks strong enough to be felt as far as Louisville KY.
All was quite well documented.
{* ... and people worry about California }.
The first time I felt an earthquake. I was 10 years old. I was in the bath tub. Kind of freaked me out. This was in St.Louis Missouri.
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That quake shattered windows in Boston, too.
Grew up in Jonesboro AR; often heard geologists talking about how if New Madrid goes again it'll be Richter 9 or 10... glad I'm not around there anymore
@@jeffking291 Ya, and they say we’re due for another major earthquake too 😬
Hey Geography King...did you know there is a creek in the US that flows to both the Atlantic AND Pacific Oceans? It is called Two Ocean Creek & it is located in the Teton Wilderness of the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Thanks to Two Ocean Creek you can travel from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean without touching dry land -- it is a continuous stream that cuts the North American continent in half! Two Ocean Creek splits on the continental divide, which then creates both Atlantic & Pacific Creeks.
The same is also true for Isa Lake, which is located inside Yellowstone National Park (a highway is right beside it so it is easy to get to). Isa Lake is directly on the continental divide & it has two outlets that flow in opposite directions -- & the strange thing is the outlet that flows to the west eventually makes it to the Gulf of Mexico while the outlet that flows to the east eventually flows to the Pacific Ocean!
Thanks, now I'll spend the rest of my day off, researching how all that is possible.......lol
And that's why some of Wyoming (around Centenial) and Colorado parklands were claimed by Texas - didn't drain to either the Pacific or Mo/Miss. system, but to GoM.
I don't think I can beat that fact.
That doesn't even sound possible! Thanks for pointing this out!
There is also Triple Divide Peak in Montana. Part of Glacier National Park, it is a feature of the Lewis range. Triple Divide Peak is the apex of North American hydrology. A bucket of water dropped at the tip of this mountain will end up in 3 oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Arctic.
This is interesting, thank you!
On your "places in the U.S. you need to go through Canada to get to" list, you could probably add Estcourt Station, Maine to that list with a little bit of an asterisk. The only way to get there from anywhere else in Maine is by some janky dirt logging roads that are technically not supposed to be open to the public. Meanwhile, there are paved main roads in Pohenagamook, Quebec that will take you across the border to Estcourt Station.
I have been on that stretch of I-81 / I-77 several times in the recent past. Thanks for a great video!
This dude just rattled off county names like nothing. I can’t even list the names of my closest friends and family members
Canada USA Mexico Belize panama Honduras El Salvador Colombia Guyana Ecuador Chile Brazil Peru UK Iceland Denmark Germany France Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Spain Andorra Monaco Portugal Poland Yugoslavia Slovenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Albania Kosovo Serbia north Macedonia Greece Lithuania Estonia Latvia Russia Finland Norway Sweden Kazakhstan Mongolia China North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan Vietnam Cambodia Laos Malaysia Brunei Indonesia East Timor Australia Papúa New Guinea New Zealand India Turkmenistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Pakistan Kazakhstan Burma Bangladesh Nepal Iran Iraq Syria turkey Lebanon Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia uae Qatar Kuwait Oman Yemen Egypt Tunisia Algeria lybia Moro o Western Sahara niger Mali Nigeria Sierra Lionela Côte d’Ivoire The Gambia Senegal Somalia Ethiopia Sudan South Sudan drc car rc Uganda Rwanda Tanzania Botswana Namibia chad eswatini lesotho South Africa.
Let me know if I missed any.
@@nayR5 They said county, not country. lmao
@@nayR5 What even is this comment? I mean you could also look up a list of UN recognized countries and paste it.
@@nayR5 yeah man I said county. But chill it was a joke not a challenge fuck man relax
@@carsonyoder6294 here’s a correction, get a fucking life bro
The New Madrid quake in 1811-12 was so powerful it made the mississippi river flow backwards & landlocked a part of KY which is pretty quirky
And coincidentally, very beautiful to visit. Great fishing!
This is interesting, cause I only thought the big earthquakes were near the Pacific faultlines, but than I just wikipedia this, and found this out: "New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years, of a repeat of a major earthquake like those that occurred in 1811-1812, which likely had magnitudes between 7.6 and 8.0. A 25 to 40% chance exists, in a 50-year time span, of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake." Well, you guys have had 4 different 50 years periods since than.. wow. Maybe the next Earthquake will be in Missouri, and catch us all off guard.
It also rang church bells in Boston MA
Great video. Really love all the information and your presentation! It may have already been brought up, but another oddity for discontinuous counties is the city of Glendale, Colorado. It is completely surrounded by the City and County of Denver, but it is actually part of Arapahoe County.
They are all pretty interesting. Thanks for the video! Went through North, SC last week, on the way to Hampton.
I 'm not quite sure how, but this guy turns dullsville into a most engaging interlude..
Point Pelee is located in southwestern Ontario, Canada. This national park lies on the 42nd Parallel, making it the same latitude as northern California.
Don't forget the islands even farther south near it, still in Canada.
Great vids!
"There are some places you have to drie through Canada to get to"
No kidding, last time I checked you had an entire state running on that principle.
Of course, but the oddity is the little piece of land across a body of water that you can't drive to without leaving the state, driving through Canada, and reentering the state. Seems like bad planning. It would've been easier logistically to give/sell that land to Canada than have such a weird arrangement.
@@toddniehaus We shall never give up the Northwest Angle! Never!
@@timmick6911 ok Minnesota
One would think that Wisconsin shares a border with Canada, but it doesn't.
GET. OUT.
Ohio and Pennsylvania, however, do.
Does Lake Superior count? That is our "border" with Canada.
@@zhazhagab0r No, while Ohio and Pennsylvania share a water border with Canada, the portion of Wisconsin that touches Lake Superior belongs to Minnesota
@@zhazhagab0r close enough though, let's roll with it! Lol
This is a great video!
Thanks for the very interesting video. I learned something new.
One that always surprised people when I was stationed in El Paso is that there is a chunk of New Mexico that actually extends to the south of Texas. There is a spur of that state that extends to the east under Texas, between the border of Mexico. If surprises many when they first go there, and realize that going south of El Paso can see you in New Mexico.
Looking at Google maps right now... not a single part of NM is directly south of Texas.
@@johnellis5828 then you need to look again for "Sunland Park". It is of course not south of all of El Paso, but that is a chunk of New Mexico sitting under El Paso. And also south of Texas, between it and Mexico.
You are welcome.
@@michaelmartin4552 I looked thoroughly at Google maps. It does indeed sit under the northwestern most part of El Paso. I got directions from El Paso and it went north so I thought these other commenters were correct. But then I looked more closely at the boundary lines. El Paso has a strange shape that makes it so a tiny part of New Mexico is sitting underneath. And if anyone else "calls BS" or doubts you, I challenge them to prove US wrong on any map. I promise that any legitimate, official map that can't prove it, also cannot disprove it, like less detailed maps or some topographical maps. 🙂🙂🙂
El Paso itself already feels like being in Mexico.
@@bubzilla6137 For most large maps, they simply make borders straight lines. But in most cases, reality is a bit different.
Technically, in 1850 it was established as running along the 100 meridian until it hit the Rio Grande river, then followed that to Mexico. The actual border is the course of the river 170 years ago, not as it is today so the border is often a mile or so to the west of the current river. But it was not a straight north-south line all the way to Mexico, but twisting and winding east and west. And as the river turns east before it meets Mexico, that land north of Mexico but west of Texas is New Mexico.
It is only a stretch of the border for around 20 miles, but that does indeed end up with part of New Mexico south of Texas. The North Eastern part sees the same thing, where it follows the Red River. Even though Oklahoma is north of Texas, some towns in Oklahoma are more south than towns in Texas. And driving along some borders can see one moving between states several times on a straight road, as the border twists and turns.
St. Louis city and county are indeed separate. There's been a big effort by several groups to get the city and county to combine. Basically back in the 1800s, the city was rich and the county poor, so the city became independent to not have their tax money go toward the county. Today, the city is poor and the county rich, but the people in the county now don't want their money to go toward city problems. Funny how that stuff works! Great video, very interesting!
Sounds like Karma to me.
Fun fact... the population of St. Louis City in 1877, when it separated from the county, was about 50,000 MORE than it is today.
My cat just fell asleep and rolled off the bed in Jones Chapel Ala freaking bama
That's why places like Houston, KC, Indianapolis, Jacksonville ect. annexed huge swaths of land to avoid that St.Louis problem in the future
It's really a racial thing though. Most white people in the county don't want their taxes to go to the black people in the city.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed this video. I have often been on the 77S/81N highway and had to look at a map the first time I noticed going south and north at the same time. I found it very interesting that as large as this country is (lower 48) that the highest and lowest parts are so close to each other.
It’s interesting that this 2 year old video is in my recommended. But judging from the comments in the last couple of days, it looks like I’m not the only one. Good for you! This was interesting and I subscribed.
Thank you. Yeah, I'm never quite sure how the CZcams algorithm works. It's one of the great mysteries of the world! This video got flooded with comments and I've been trying to keep up. For a small channel it caught me off guard. But it's a good problem to have.
8:35 -- We have something similar in the San Francisco Bay area; there's a stretch where interstates 80 and 580 are coincident with each other, and if you're driving east on 80, you're going west on 580, all while driving *north.*
I41 North in Milwaukee is the same as I43 South (and vice versa) and the direction of travel is East-West
It gets even better going the other direction. In Emeryville you can momentarily be driving on 80 West, 580 East, and 880 South at the same time just before entering the MacAurther Maze.
Years back, I took a then-girlfriend to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield and we drove on that stretch of interstate.
I was scrolling through to see if anyone else has pointed this out before adding my comment. And here it is!
@@johnmiller8884 mmm do you have a source for 880 legally beginning north of the MacArthur Maze? There's a section with lanes marked for all three of those, but that doesn't mean that section is _part of_ all three. Those signs indicate where the lanes lead, not where they are.
Great info 👍🏻
I'm pretty sure this video has been popping up in my feed for over a year now.
So... guess I'll watch!
I find it odd that Ohio is considered Midwest and Louisiana is Southeast when Ohio is east of Louisiana and it’s in the Eastern time zone while Louisiana is Central.
I once argued with a guy who was from Ohio after he claimed he was from the Midwest. Me being from Missouri, I just laughed when he said that. I said Ohio isn’t Midwest, that the west end of the east coast.
@@hadtocheathimtobeathim6549 I totally agree! Missouri is definitely more Midwestern than Ohio. As a Mississippi State alum, I was baffled when Missouri and Texas A&M joined the SEC. Neither of those schools are in the Southeast. I know that sports conferences are never 100% geographically accurate, but come on! LOL
@@matthewallen1153 I agree that just felt weird. The travel is longer now for all the schools playing Missouri and Texas teams for sure. But you're right. Geography is about meaningless worth college divisions anymore
The region that is considered Midwest got its name in the early 19th century before the US was expanded.
@@hadtocheathimtobeathim6549 ohio, indiana, and illinois could be argued to be the ohio river valley or great lakes region and not the "midwest." The reason they are commonly called the midwest though is because during the westward expansion of the US and the time(mid 1800s) of a different "midwestern" culture developing separating itself from the South and New England , they were the midwest. It really isn't a geographical term and more of a cultural one.
Every trucker is like, "seems pretty normal to me"
The I-77/81 concurrency?
@@dianeadkins-diorio1783 O.o ⬇⬆
Got that right! Started in 1991 and medically retired in 2018.
Cool vid. Thank you!
Awesome! I’m in the process of moving to Missouri, you taught me some great new trivia about my future home today, thanks!
Here’s one... there’s only one State Capital that doesn’t share a letter with it’s State. Answer: Pierre; South Dakota
SilentSinusSyndrome that’s actually pretty incredible.
You could be making that up; who's going to check it?
The state capital here in Vermont, Montpelier, is 1) the smallest state capital in the US, and 2) the only state capital without a McDonalds. ;-)
@@NichaelCramer "2) the only state capital without a McDonalds". Badge of honor right there.
Pierre is the only capital I know in the contiguous 48 states that's well away from an interstate highway.