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the US states have some iconic shapes but if you look closely you'll see many irregularities such as a Kentucky Bend which is a tiny piece of Kentucky home to 18 people cut off from the rest of Kentucky legislated Missouri their border is defined by the Mississippi River which leaps off below and back north above the 36 and a half parallel which is a boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee officially 36 and a half Carlo was supposed to be the entire Kentucky Tennessee border but the line drawn up the Tennessee River in 1780 between what was at the time parts of Virginia and North Carolina gradually jig north as the surveyors traveled across was still mostly an explored continent when the line reached the Tennessee River it was more than the tenths of degree off but the states were like and good enough in 1819 the border was extended to the Mississippi River this time on the correct line but the error east of the Tennessee River remained using rivers as natural borders has one fundamental flaw rivers change it is generally agreed upon that river borders will change with the gradual erosion of banks but when the course the river changes suddenly through either man-made or natural causes the old river boundary is used to prevent land and people from switching states it is fairly common for States to have some land on the wrong side of the Mississippi and other rivers in the Great Plains because it's earthquakes and floods notable examples include Carter Lake Iowa which is a city on abrasca side of the Missouri River next to Omaha's airport and the airport of the city of st. Joseph Missouri just North Kansas City which is cut off from the rest of the state by a 1952 flood these situations are easy to deal with inside the United States since people can move freely between states but the Rio Grande border between Texas and Mexico has similar River issues every once in a while the two countries will exchange land to clean up the border but they both still have some land on the wrong side of the river the Colorado River border has a different problem the river sort of doesn't exist anymore because of dance and diversions to irrigate all this farmland a stretch of border between Arizona and Mexico is on the drive riverbed where the river used to be here they built a tunnel under the driver verbed for an irrigation canal in Mexico just south of the border this Lake known as the Salton Sea was created by accident in 1905 when a flood broke through the irrigation canal and water kept flowing for two years while engineers tried to fix the breach agreements between governments to conserve water have allowed the river to carry flow all the way to the Gulf of California once again but it's intermittent and far less than once was in New York Liberty Island and Ellis Island are parts of the state of New York even though they are completely surrounded by the waters of state of New Jersey this is the result of an 1834 interstate compact when Ellis Island was expanded between 1892 in 1934 it was thought to all be part of New York but in 1998 the Supreme Court ruled that the land reclaimed after 1834 belongs to New Jersey since was reclaimed from their waters this left New York was a landlocked and clay surrounded by New Jersey Delaware has a couple pieces of land that look like they should be part of New Jersey this is because part of Delaware's borders are defined by 12-mile circle centered on a courthouse in New Castle in this circle the border with New Jersey is defined as the high-water mark of the banks of the Delaware River whereas outside the circle the border is defined as the center of the river like with Ellis Island these areas are reclaimed land only the tip of the artificial island in the south is part Delaware because the twelve- circle only intersects part of the reclaimed land the mid-atlantic is home to many more strange border situations such as the Eastern Shore of Virginia connected only by this bridge that becomes a tunnel in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay also the entire state of Maryland is pretty weird when Maryland was created in 1632 Europeans knew practically nothing about the interior of the continent Virginia was just a few settlements near the Chesapeake Bay and the Dutch in Sweden were looking to establish colonies of their own nearby so the British established a new colony on the Chesapeake Bay north of the Potomac River to strengthen their claim to the area the peninsula was cut approximately cross on the mouth of the Potomac and was later marked precisely though the border ended up going through this island in the bay and this one off the coast the Swedish colony was conquered by the Dutch and the Dutch by the British and some of that land eventually became Delaware it was defined as the land to the west of the Delaware River including the 12-mile circle and land to the south up to Fenwick Island this directly overlapped with Maryland's claim so they agreed to split the peninsula in half the people who drew this border between 1763 and 1757 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon evidently were good at geometry because the border goes west halfway across the peninsula then follows a tangent line to the 12-mile circle then there is a line that goes north from this point until it meets the mason-dixon line known for being the boundary between the slave space in the south and the free states in the north the line is 50 miles south of where the most suddenly part of Philadelphia was at the time 12 mile circle extend past the perpendicular section of the line with waterfalls and arcs from the tangent point until it reaches the line going north to the mason-dixon line though this created a small wedge bounded by the circle and two lines which according to the definition really belonged to no one but both Delaware and Pennsylvania and claimed it the area was administered by Delaware and Pennsylvania gave up their claim in 1921 Maryland strange shape in the West is a result of the upper section of the Potomac coming very close to the mason-dixon line at one point if they River read north by two miles then Maryland would have a Kentucky Bend situation Maryland's western border is near the source of Tomac but Pennsylvania continues to appoint five degrees of longitude west of the Delaware River at the time they would not have known this would be so close to West Virginia's Ohio River border meaning it was an awkward Panhandle when the time came to have the civil war in 1861 the border slave states of Missouri Kentucky Maryland and Delaware stuck with the Union which is lucky for the north since otherwise the capital Washington DC would be surrounded by rebel states the state representatives from the western part of Virginia wish to remain in the Union despite the rest wishing to secede the West Virginian said what the rest of Regina's Representatives did was revolting so they should lose their seats and be replaced they formed their own Union government of Virginia and called the old rebel one illegitimate and began the process of forming a new state which was something they wanted to do for a while anyway since the Union controlled Vince border region they split off with West Virginia despite being Pro secession Michigan has two peninsulas which have a bridge but are otherwise disconnected from one another they received the Upper Peninsula in order to end the war they were fighting with Ohio over Toledo only one person was injured in the fighting but tensions were high enough that they started shooting each other the border of Ohio was supposed to be the southern tip of Lake Michigan but the best map they had at the time showed the lake to be a lot shorter than it really was thus Ohio believed their state would have all the Lake Erie coasts however it was reported by fur trappers the Lake Michigan extended further south than previously thought in response to this Ohio said that in that conditional case Ohio's northern border will be on a diagonal line going from the tip of Lake Michigan to a point on Lake Erie nor of the port of Toledo however when the federal government was approving Ohio statehood they didn't like Ohio's algorithmically defined border so they only approved the border as being south of Lake Michigan that's when they created the Michigan territory they defined its southern border at the tip of Lake Michigan even though Ohio had been assuming Toledo which was north of this line was there in 1816 the line claimed by Ohio was servant this angered the Michigan territory who made their own survey which followed the federally defined line the land between was called the Toledo strip Ohio blocked Michigan's attempt at statehood while they claimed the strip and both sides these militias to defend their claim eventually michigan ceded the land to ohio in exchange to the Upper Peninsula and statehood interestingly Detroit is immediately to the north of Windsor Ontario meaning someone born and raised in South Detroit is Canadian Minnesota also has an exclave called the Northwest angle in order for the 119 Americans that live there to reach the rest of the state they must travel through Canada when the United States won independence part of its border was defined at the northwest corner of the Lake of the Woods and aligned from that point West Mississippi the Mississippi River failed to exist that far north so in most Maps the border was just drawn south from the lake but the situation would last until 1818 when they agreed to make a simple border on the 49th parallel from the Rockies to Lake the border would go directly north or south from the northwest corner to the 49th parallel so they sent an expedition to find the corner though the pilot Lodge nearby and calls it a day it turns out is about a third of a degree north of the parallel they also agreed to share the Oregon Territory on the other side of the Rockies and decide what to do with it later when that time came the Oregon Territory was in between Mexican California and Russian Alaska which would eventually be purchased by America in 1867 Alaska is cut off from the rest of America by Canada because the Americans had Falls through with 54 40 or fights then when they bought Alaska it would have been connected however the Americans decided to be reasonable and in 1846 continued the 49th parallel border to this Pacific coast they even let the British keep their fort on the south of Vancouver Island although this border ended up cutting off Point Roberts from the rest of Washington State America was willing to settle because they just annexed Texas and we're about to fight the Mexican American War sis claimed all of Mexico's territory immediately north of the Rio Grande but the state gave the land north of the 36 and a half parallel as well as most of what became New Mexico to the federal government in exchange for paying off the Texas government debt as part of the compromise of 1850 between slaves and free states which worked out perfectly since in 1854 in the lead-up to the Civil War Free Staters and slaveholders were fighting the bloody Kansas war over whether the Kansas Territory should allow slavery its southern border was the 37th parallel which left a small strip at a no-man's land in 1890 it became part of the territory of Oklahoma along with the Indian Territory which was the land where native tribes were forcibly resettled during the Trail of Tears but going back to just before the Civil War in 1859 on the west coast the appoint Roberts made it was unclear who controlled some islands in the channel tensions over the islands came to a frying point when an American farmer shot a pig followed by a worker of a British company on one of the islands the two sides agreed to let Germany decide the issue the islands were awarded to us and the pig war and there was no casualties well its uptake there are enough weird borders around the world make an entire series which you can watch on the left alternatively you can watch video on the right which gives a historical reasons some countries like Bolivia and Ethiopia are landlocked also please consider clicking be or close the route Music