List of tripoints of U.S. states
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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. A tripoint occurring in a populated area may also be informally described as a tri-state area.
Land
- Connecticut–Massachusetts–New York tripoint marker
- Connecticut–Rhode Island–Massachusetts tripoint marker
- Indiana–Michigan–Ohio tripoint marker
- Colorado–Kansas–Oklahoma tripoint marker (8 Mile Corner)
- Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma tripoint marker
State 1 | State 2 | State 3 | Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Florida | Georgia | 31°0′2″N 85°0′8″W | Marker on Chattahoochee riverbank is actually a few feet above and west of true tripoint at high-water line.[2] |
Alabama | Georgia | Tennessee | 34°59′5″N 85°36′19″W | Tri-State Corner. Marker on dry land at surface level and unmarked on lake in cavern directly below. Stolen in 2009 and returned two years later.[3][4][5] |
Arizona | Nevada | Utah | 37°0′1″N 114°3′2″W | Marked with a red sandstone monument.[6] |
Arkansas | Louisiana | Mississippi | 33°0′15″N 91°9′58″W | Probably unmarked on silt island in river sometimes connected to west bank by mud flat accreted by riprap. |
Arkansas | Louisiana | Texas | 33°1′9″N 94°2′35″W | See Ark-La-Tex. Marker in process of being surrounded and absorbed by tree. |
Arkansas | Missouri | Oklahoma | 36°29′58″N 94°37′5″W | Marked with a stone monument.[7] |
Arkansas | Oklahoma | Texas | 33°38′16″N 94°29′9″W | Unmarked on seasonal silt island or in river bed, but Oklahoma–Texas state line as revised in 2000 is defective in not extending from vegetation line on south bank to pre-established tripoint. |
California | Nevada | Oregon | 41°59′40″N 119°59′57″W | Marked with a cairn.[8] |
Colorado | Kansas | Nebraska | 40°0′11″N 102°3′6″W | Marked with a brass disc.[9] |
Colorado | Kansas | Oklahoma | 36°59′35″N 102°2′32″W | 8 Mile Corner. Marker is concealed in crypt beneath removable manhole cover. |
Colorado | Nebraska | Wyoming | 41°0′5″N 104°3′12″W | Marked with a stone surrounded by a three-stone colored base.[10] |
Colorado | New Mexico | Oklahoma | 37°0′0″N 103°0′8″W | Preston Monument |
Colorado | Utah | Wyoming | 41°0′2″N 109°3′0″W | Marked.[11] |
Connecticut | Massachusetts | New York | 42°2′59″N 73°29′14″W | See Brace Mountain or Mount Frissell. Marked with a stone inscribed with MASS-1898-NY and a scratched-on CONN.[12] |
Connecticut | Massachusetts | Rhode Island | 42°0′29″N 71°47′57″W | See Thompson, Connecticut. Marked with a stone inscribed with MASS-CONN-RI.[13] |
Delaware | Maryland | Pennsylvania | 39°43′20″N 75°47′19″W | Marked by the Tri-State Monument, inscribed with M-M-P-P. See Delaware Wedge.[14] |
Georgia | North Carolina | Tennessee | 34°59′18″N 84°19′19″W | Marked.[15] |
Idaho | Montana | Wyoming | 44°28′27″N 111°2′56″W | Located within Yellowstone National Park. Marked, although difficult to access.[16] |
Idaho | Nevada | Oregon | 42°0′1″N 117°1′34″W | Marked with a three-sided stone inscribed with N-I-O on the respective faces.[17] |
Idaho | Nevada | Utah | 41°59′37″N 114°2′30″W | Marked with a granite monument inscribed with the respective states' names.[18] |
Idaho | Utah | Wyoming | 42°0′6″N 111°2′48″W | Marked with a stone.[19] |
Indiana | Michigan | Ohio | 41°41′46″N 84°48′22″W | Brass marker with the shapes of the three states is located in a monument box beneath the surface of a rural road. Was set in 1999[20] and is referenced by a granite marker 20 feet to the east on the Michigan-Ohio line.[21] |
Iowa | Minnesota | South Dakota | 43°30′1″N 96°27′12″W | True point is marked with a disc in the center of a T-shaped road intersection.[22] A witness monument nearby in the South Dakota corner acknowledges the tri-point being set in 1859. |
Kansas | Missouri | Oklahoma | 36°59′56″N 94°37′5″W | Marked with a plaque on a seldom used dead-end road.[23] |
Kentucky | Tennessee | Virginia | 36°36′3″N 83°40′32″W | Tri-State Peak[24] Located within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Marked. |
Kentucky | Virginia | West Virginia | 37°32′17″N 81°58′5″W | Marked with a USCG marker on top of a two-foot high iron pipe at the river's high point.[25] |
Maryland | Pennsylvania | West Virginia | 39°43′16″N 79°28′36″W | Marked with a pyramid-like stone.[26] |
Massachusetts | New Hampshire | Vermont | 42°43′37″N 72°27′30″W | Marker is technically on dry land, but buried within river bed due to a dam's construction downstream.[27] |
Massachusetts | New York | Vermont | 42°44′45″N 73°15′54″W | Marked with a stone.[28] |
Minnesota | North Dakota | South Dakota | 45°56′7″N 96°33′49″W | Near the Bois de Sioux River[29] |
Montana | North Dakota | South Dakota | 45°56′43″N 104°2′44″W | Marked with a red granite stone.[30] |
Montana | South Dakota | Wyoming | 44°59′51″N 104°3′28″W | Marked with a stone within a fence.[31] |
Nebraska | South Dakota | Wyoming | 43°0′2″N 104°3′11″W | Marked with a stone within a fence.[32] |
New Jersey | New York | Pennsylvania | 41°21′27″N 74°41′42″W | Marked by the Tri-States Monument in Port Jervis, New York, at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink rivers.[33][34] |
New Mexico | Oklahoma | Texas | 36°30′1″N 103°0′9″W | Texhomex Marker |
North Carolina | Tennessee | Virginia | 36°35′17″N 81°40′39″W | North Carolina–Tennessee–Virginia Corners - Marked.[35] |
Water
See also
- Four Corners Monument – a quadripoint
References
External links
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