Saturday, July 2, 2011

BUT WHAT OF THE SOUTHWICK JOG? The Awl explores some of America's strangest map borders. For more, see the Wiki page on border irregularities of the United States.

5 comments:

  1. Joseph J. Finn10:07 AM

    My favorite has always been Elm Point, Minnesota, a very odd piece of land extending from Manitoba into Lake Superior that is technically US property, and isn't even part of the odd Northwest Angle just to the east of it.

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  2. The Pathetic Earthling12:14 PM

    I'm a very big fan of the book "The Shape of the States" -- one of my all-time favorite bathroom reader books.

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  3. The Pathetic Earthling12:18 PM

    Also, my Uncle lives in Point Roberts, Washington, a little vestigal appendix of America hanging off of British Columbia.

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  4. Emily8:10 PM

    I always thought it was strange that Marble Hill is part of New York County/Manhattan when it is north of the Harlem River on the mainland.

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  5. Emily W8:55 AM

    One of my favorites it the little sliver of land that belongs to Delaware, but is on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. Apparently, it's causing quite a dispute these days, since NJ wants to build some kind of power plant near there.

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