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The geographic center of the United States is a point approximately 20 mi (32 km) north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota at 44°58′2.07622″N 103°46′17.60283″W. It has been regarded as such by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) since the additions of Alaska and Hawaii to the United ...
A total of 477 mountain summits in the United States meet both criteria for the definition of "major summit" used here: at least 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) of topographic elevation and at least 500 metres (1,640 ft) of topographic prominence.
It contains the highest point in the contiguous 48 states, Mount Whitney (14,505 ft or 4,421 m). It is located at the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, just 84.6 mi or 136.2 km west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at the Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park at 279 ft or 85 m below sea level. [16]
This is a list of all tripoints in which the boundaries of three (and only three) U.S. states converge at a single geographic point. Of the 60 such points, 36 are on dry land and 24 are in water. [1] Of the points in water, 3 are in the Great Lakes and thus have no land nearby.
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal union of 50 states, the federal capital district of Washington, D.C., and 326 Indian reservations. [j] The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the ...
Extreme points of the U.S. on the North American continent: Point Barrow, Cape Sable, West Quoddy Head, Cape Prince of Wales. Extreme points in all U.S. territory: Point Barrow, Rose Atoll, Wake Island, Peaked Island (red dots); Point Udall, Guam, and Point Udall, USVI are shown as green dots.
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point: Louisiana: 2014 1435; iii (cultural) The vast earthen complex at Poverty Point was constructed between 1700 and 1100 BCE, during the Late Archaic Period. It was created by a foraging society of fishermen-hunter-gatherers, instead of a settled agricultural society. The complex consists of semi-elliptical ...
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