Map Puzzler #2

While we are on the topic of strange map facts, here's an unexpected tidbit. Let's say you get in a plane in St Louis, Missouri an...

Car Talk makes a big goof!

View St. George FL in a larger map Here's proof that "Lost States" readers are a bit more detail-oriented (read "smarter...

Geographic Puzzler

Kudos to NPR's Car Talk guys for this interesting puzzler: "There is only one city in the United States whereby traveling along the...

5-state point winner

View Larger Map Hats off to Vic Fieger who will go down in history as the first person to identify the 5-State Point; the place in America ...

Simpsons Map Mystery

On last night's episode of the Simpsons, Sideshow Bob took Bart to "5 Corners" the only place in America where 5 states meet--...

Jefferson, copper, and Hitler

The curious thing about most of the statehood proposals I researched is that very few seemed to produce actual maps. That is, proponents wou...

Statehood for Moosylvania

One of the C-SPAN callers asked about Moosylvania... a state proposed by the creator of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon.  This was purely a...

C-SPAN gives me 40 minutes...

...to talk about "Lost States." Sure, I'm funny-looking, but the interview went well--got to talk about lots of interesting st...