Weird Geography Facts

[JM4CY]

Ames to Dallas … 726 miles
Chicago to New York City … 790 miles
El Paso to Orange, Texas … 856 miles

This pretty ******* wild to think about.

 

[MeanDean]

Living in Minnesota, I've been to Mexico 10 times. I've been to Canada zero times.

I lived in Muscatine County from age 3 to age 25 and had never been to Dubuque. Or Clinton. Finally with my first job out of college with the Corps of Engineers I visited all the river towns.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Living in Minnesota, I've been to Mexico 10 times. I've been to Canada zero times.

You need to allocate more time to the Canadian branch of your international drug cartel.

 

[Cyowa 14]

Detroit Michigan is the only major city in America where if you look south you will see Canada.

 

[Cyowa 14]

@brentblum always says this one.... Lubbock Texas is closer to Denver than Houston

 

[Cyforce]

State Center in not the center of the state.

I was told Iowa center actually is which is a few miles north of Maxwell

 

[Cyforce]

Detroit Michigan is the only major city in America where if you look south you will see Canada.

I read that 70% of the population of Canada is south of Detroit

 

[AltoonaFish]

I was told Iowa center actually is which is a few miles north of Maxwell

There is a little unincorporated town called Iowa center, but it’s not the center either but is close than State Center.

 

[ISUTex]

An old girlfriend from Milwaukee used to refer to the ATM as the Time machine because that is the name of the network of ATM's they used in Wisconsin. I do think it was spelled Tyme, though.

Reminds me of Idiocracy. "Yeah, we got a time machine".

 

[thakeepa14]

The islands of American Samoa and Western Samoa are 120 miles apart, but have a time difference of 24 hours and are completely different calendar days. Kiribati Islands (straight south of Hawaii) is the first country to celebrate new years, but American Samoa is west of Kiribati and celebrates new years a full 24 hours later

 

[1100011CS]

To drive to the Northwest Angle of Minnesota, you need to pass through Canada and have the proper immigration paperwork.

Or cross the ice

 

[ISUTex]

If all the land in Iowa south of HWY 92 was annexed by Missouri. The average IQ in Iowa and Missouri would increase.

They do the same joke in Minnesota, except it's the lower row of Minnesota counties. I wonder if Missouri people do the joke with Arkansas.

 

[EnkAMania]

If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state.

 

[Drew0311]

If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state.

Alaska is way bigger when you get there than you can possibly imagine. I drove half way across the state and it took me a couple days stopping and staying in a few towns.

 

[SaraV]

That's because of the traffic from Joliet to downtown.

 

[SaraV]

Ames to Dallas … 726 miles
Chicago to New York City … 790 miles
El Paso to Orange, Texas … 856 miles

This pretty ******* wild to think about.

Many years ago, my husband had part of a road trip that went from Shreveport to El Paso. He tells how he almost weeped seeing the interstate sign that said "El Paso, 8xx miles".

 

[EarthIsMan]

A part of Kentucky is surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee. This “exclave” is also known as the “Kentucky Bend”.

Kentucky Bend - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[State2015]

I will never understand why these areas are in the central time zone.


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I know that little piece of NW Indiana is central since it's in Chicagoland. Would be weird to have some suburbs 1hr ahead. Can't speak to the others tho it doesn't seem to make much sense

 

[CascadeClone]

A part of Kentucky is surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee. This “exclave” is also known as the “Kentucky Bend”. View attachment 141198

Kentucky Bend - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Looks like a colon polyp.

Probably smells like it too.

 

[WooBadger18]

I know that little piece of NW Indiana is central since it's in Chicagoland. Would be weird to have some suburbs 1hr ahead. Can't speak to the others tho it doesn't seem to make much sense

Part of the Wisconsin - Michigan line is Lake Michigan. The east side (Michigan) is eastern time and the west side (Wisconsin) is central time.

There are some parts of the UP that are central time, but I’d assume it’s for the same reason as NW Indiana