British Guy Reacts to Oddities of U.S. Geography

what is up guys welcome back to the channel today's reaction video is going to be more oddities of the us geography now i think it was january when we did the 16 oddities of the us by jog ficking awesome channel by the way the link will be in the description um and i've left it a lot of time because again i don't want him to get stale i don't want to keep repeating the same thing for you guys and for me like it's awesome to touch on subjects after a while especially when you like when you talk about auditors of the us i really enjoyed that video but i've left it some time and we're going to be checking out the other ones i'm keen for this one the last one really enjoyed it you guys seem to enjoy it as well so let's get straight into it geography king's link will be in the description like i did just say guys check him out at the end of the video i will remind you don't worry about that i actually emailed him the other day just to make sure his reactions were okay i know i've been doing it for a while but i didn't actually notice any of his contact details but i realized he had a business email emailed him just saying howdy how's it going mate i hope you're fine and he was a legend about it so shout out to you if for some reason you're watching i highly doubt it because you made his videos uh but if you are absolute legend now let's find out some more interesting oddities of a us geography hit that subscribe button if you're around here hit that like button as well your absolute legends and let's see what we got howdy it's kyle with no installment of oddities of u.s geography where i'll be examining some interesting quirks and features of the geography of the us and a little bit of canada as well so with the landmasses of the us there's bound to be some pretty interesting things some of these are well known and you may have heard of some of this stuff and some other ones i wasn't aware of until i read about them in the comments section in my other video in this series and some other ones still this might be the first time you're hearing about them but let's get started with some of this weird stuff about the us you know this is going to be weird isn't it there is going to be some mental stuff in here the fact that he's done his original video and then there's people on the internet they'll be sergio they'll be looking up for the weirdest stuff in the comments letting him know oh you've got to make another one this which it has this is going to be good you can tell already first i want to talk about crater lake oregon and just how incredibly deep it is it has a maximum depth of 1949 feet which makes the deepest lake in the us and the ninth deepest lake in the world it has an average depth of 1148 feet which makes it to the third deepest lake in the world in terms of average depth and that's all very impressive but what makes it even more beautiful it's not really that big of a lake it's not even one of the top 100 lakes in the us in terms of area and there are literally thousands of lakes worldwide larger than crater lake wow but because the surface area isn't huge while being one of the deepest lakes it has the highest depth to area ratio of any lake in the world well there you go i never knew that i didn't even know this lake existed what it looks absolutely stunning um but i guess it's a crater and if you if you look at craters without watering they are very steep they're coming like that i guess a traditional lake is eroded over time got deep and stuff like that so it makes sense how it is very steep and you know it's smaller very deep and also this happens to be a beautiful national park mississippi rivers meandering has caused some pretty interesting situations in terms of state boundaries water is very powerful but it's also pretty lazy it wants the path of least resistance so if a river can get to where it's going by using an easier path it will change course and a meander might leave a piece of the old river behind as an oxbow lake okay how that affects state borders is that many of the borders were determined to be the river itself however when the meander changed course portions of a state that was supposed to be east of the river are now west of the river there are far too many of these to mention in the video but most of them are around the memphis tennessee area online arkansas northwest or mississippi or northeastern louisiana i mean you can you can easily just tell looking at it how off some of them bound your lines off because the lake used to go there although the mississippi river used to go right now it's created lakes at times as well but just looking at that wow man the largest of these oxbows is just south of vicksburg mississippi and perhaps the strangest one is fulton county kentucky which is the southwestern corner of the state this small part of the state is completely cut off from the rest of kentucky and the only way to get there by road is from tennessee interesting oxbow is carter lake iowa it's right in the middle of the omaha nebraska metropolitan area and it sits directly adjacent to the omaha airport okay if you look at this aerial photograph the portion is to the right of the airport which is just west of the airport is the town of carter lake wow the major difference between this one and the mississippi river oxbows is that those take a long time to create those were years and years of meandering and erosion the one around carter lake occurred from one big flood and take a look at this welcome sign this is a really cool sign if your town is an oxford you might as well have a welcome sign like this yeah i do like that you know it makes sense i think in iowa it's the only state in the country where the entirety of its eastern border and the entirety of its western border is a river waters form a lot of the united states but most also have another type of border maybe a line of longitude or a mountain crest or something like that but for iowa to its borders are in completely rivers and another small one and i've just seen uh des moines i know it's pronounced des moines now but uh only the ogs who've been around the channel a long time will remember when i first saw that word i was like what's that place called did monies demonies i had no clue and luckily everyone in the comments was like no like groin but with an m so big moin des moines i think i've said it right but oh that's a day i'll never i'll never forget i get absolutely roasted all the time for that it's the only state in the country where state abbreviation is two vowels another spot that is cut off from the rest of its state is the lost peninsula in michigan this is a small piece of land that is only accessible by road from ohio okay michigan and ohio fought to see who would get this area around toledo eventually it was decided by the courts to use a line of latitude and this little piece of the peninsula was north of that line of latitude that the supreme court drew and now it's part of michigan and michigan losing this battle is probably why they're still so bitter about ohio in terms of what state a city lies in there's nothing stranger than texarkana texas and arkansas this is effectively one city in which portions of it are in each of the two states i mean yeah that is weird that the city is split over two states but what a name texas or like it's one of them the city name spells yeah it's split between texas and arkansas like easily and this is not the same kansas city missouri and kansas those are two completely different cities completely different jurisdictions yep although each half of texarkana has looked at that in city council they do share a lot of city services and the courthouse and the post office are right along the state line and that's not for the two of them and something else interesting about that is if you live in texarkana arkansas you don't pay state income taxes as if you lived on the texas side so it's the only city in the country that is located within two states oh another i mean it's one of them i love the name because it's located in both what do we name it oh we'll just name it between both states and uh again pretty pretty weird you just surely you just do the boundary line outside the city and one of them would pick but fair play i rate it i love the fact they're on the state line as well interesting one about arkansas is that it borders six states and you can drive due south from arkansas into all six of the states or the borders so you can see how the booth of missouri can adjust to the southwest yep and how the northwestern portion of the state has a slanted border with oklahoma so you can drive south from there too oh wow for this next one i want to give credit to alvin who commented in my other video about oddities you can drive from scottsbluff nebraska to savannah georgia which is over 1700 miles and only have to pass through missouri and tennessee to get there so if you live oh that's mental again it just shows how large the u.s actually is 1700 miles and you're only going through two states oh wow it just again emphasizes to me how big it actually is in scotts bluff you can say we don't live that far from the atlantic ocean we're only three states away another interesting quirk about tennessee and georgia is something that i see all the time to drive from chattanooga to nashville along i-24 you have to go through a small part of georgia to do it okay it's the only place in the u.s where you drive from one portion of a state to another along the interstate but you have to go through another state to do it wow and something else interesting about that is that when you cross over into georgia it keeps the tennessee mile markers usually when you get to a state line the mile markers will start over for that new state but because it's such a small portion of georgia you drive through it keeps the tennessee mile markers makes sense you know like it's confusing the best of times which state you it is a city half of the hall for some of that try and keep it as simple as possible yes you may be in georgia but you're on the same road it's only a little bit of stretch of land in the whole grand scheme of things it does make sense another one about georgia is savannah along the coast is actually south of tijuana mexico so if you draw a line of latitude from tijuana all the way east across the u.s you'll end up right around hilton head island south carolina oh wow just up the road from tijuana is san diego and san diego has an average high temperature in june of 71 degrees which doesn't change the same average high temperature in june for fairbanks alaska fairbanks does get pretty warm during the summer time and temperatures in the 80s can be pretty common that's mental like you're talking alaska all you think of it is cold weather at least all i think of i shouldn't speak for you guys because you're a lot more wet educated i know more a lot more than me but i'd have gone yeah it's a very cold place i doubt he gets above 15 degrees at times but you're talking 32 degrees potentially damn that's nasty man that is it persuades me to go a little bit more because i don't like the cold i prefer a warm place and if i see there's a potential for warmth i'm like yeah persuades me to go even more it's just so far away from the moderating effects of the ocean and the sun is shining just all the time in june and july so yeah it's just as warm as san diego in june and july but in january it's just a little bit different yeah it's just a bit cold climate quirk is that seattle regardless of how far north it is averages only five inches of snow per year nashville or winston-salem north carolina which averaged six inches of snow per year you might be thinking well because it rained so much but it does rain a lot but the amount of rain in seattle really isn't that much it only rains about 38 inches a year there oh wow again in chattanooga it averages 53 inches of rain per year yeah it's a big difference cloudy days in seattle during the winter but it's mostly kind of drizzly and light rain and very rarely snow there you go i'm more you know it's more snow before we get in the uk though i know about four five time zones is that portions of eastern oregon are in the mountain time zone and portions of the florida panhandle are in the central time zone um which means there's only a one hour time difference between that portion of oregon and that portion of florida and then that's even more confusing when you've got different states part of different time zones like half it's one time zone half it's the other now that is way too confusing for me farthest distance in the contiguous us you can be to be only a one hour time difference apart an odd relationship between cities and counties is new york city new york is the only city in the country where the city government supersedes county governments oh wow new york city is its own county manhattan is new york county bronx is bronx county queens is queens county brooklyn is kings county and staten island is richmond county okay i think it would have been cool that brooklyn would have kept the name kings so it would have been kings and queens but either way new york is the only city like this for this next oddity i want to thank commenters mr flibble and marty who posted this in my other video about oddities if you start in stamford or greenwich connecticut and head due north do south do east or due west the first state line you're going to get to in all directions is new york i had to look at the wait what north south and west not for this one but it's because these two towns are located in that little nub which is the southwestern corner of the state this next one yeah of maryland which i think is the weirdest shaped state in the country the northern border for maryland is a line of latitude and the southern border of the panhandle of maryland is the potomac river okay nothing strange about that except for the fact that at one point they're only one mile apart from each other so there's a tiny little portion of maryland where it's only one mile wide separating it from pennsylvania and west virginia oh dumb and somehow it's not big oh right in there so i'm not sure how maryland worked that one out but it goes right there and here are a couple of quirks that the flat earth crowd aren't going to like oh there's some people maybe there wasn't any flight efforts in my comments let me know if you are flyover i am a complete round earth i i think that is the case you know i'm not going to get into a target it's probably going to trigger some people it's all banned at the end of the day but let's see why the earth isn't rounded it is flat one is that the closest state to the african continent is not florida it's maine you can get from maine to morocco more quickly than you can get from florida to senegal oh wow look there maine and morocco you're not so far apart after all another one for the flat earth crowd is at san francisco and indianapolis are both the same distance to delhi india they're both about 7 600 miles to delhi but of course to fly there you would go in a different direction yep or another way of looking at it is that if you're in denver it's the same distance to delhi whether you travel east or west okay interesting geographical quirks about canada i want to thank commenter richard for this one the southernmost point in canada is point pili which is about an hour south of detroit or windsor island okay there are more americans that live north of this point than in all of canada combined i mean it's not surprising the population of canada compared to america but that is a mental stat like you're talking the most southern part of canada the fear are you talking most things north of it in your head normally would be our canadians but no to be fair you look at that point it is a lot of america so when you actually look at the map and see the point it makes sense more americans live better than um the canadians but they're that like if you know if you haven't got a visual help that stat is kind of like what that makes no sense there are less than 40 million people that live in canada but there are more than 40 million americans that live north of the southernmost point of canada yep another oddity about canada is just the sheer size and lack of population of nunavut it's approximately 725 000 square miles or 1.9 million square kilometers that's about the same size as mexico it's larger than alaska and nearly three times the size of texas oh wow for this enormous area there are only 36 000 people that live there again i was mind-blown when we when i first learned on this channel that canada was bigger than the u.s but obviously a lot of their land was inhabitable so the population was tiny compared and i just kind of always went off population and i never thought about it but the fact that that whole area is three times the size of texas only got that many people that is mental that's hardly anyone it literally just all must be inhabitable and you can't live in it wow you do the math and the population density is 0.0 people per square kilometer or square mile wow now technically it's .02 people per square kilometer or .05 people per square mile but if you're using just one decimal place it's zero point zero people per square kilometer or a mile mental universe makes central australia look like toronto and the last one that i wanted to mention isn't really an oddity it's just kind of silly there's a town from south carolina called north it was named after a guy named john north so the town's name is north south carolina what are you good i'm going to south carolina oh which port north which mean yeah i'm going to north south carolina well which one are you going to south carolina or north carolina i'm going south carolina okay but it's north south carolina what and 100 miles away is a town called due west so one way of putting it is you can say north south carolina is a hundred miles southeast of due west so there you have it some more quantities of us geography i'll probably post a video like this every now and then so in the comment section let me know some other ones that i may have missed or might not know about let me know if you guys know any which dog vicking hasn't seen and i haven't seen in the comments guys if you enjoyed this video smash that like button smash that subscribe button you're absolute legends i'll see you all in my next one and i hope you have a fantastic day peace

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