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Dimensions and Area of The United
States Some Interesting Facts
and F.gares Complied by US. Geo.
logical Survey.

Dimensions and Area of The United
States Some Interesting Facts
and F.gHres Complied by US. Geo.
logical Survey.
The gross area of the United States
is 3,O26 7S9 square miles. The land
area amounts to 2,973,774 square
miles, and the water area-exclusive
of the area in the Great Lakes, the
Atlantic the Pacific, and the Gulf of
Mexico within the three mile limit
amounts to 53,015 square miles These
and other data determined or com
piled by the Unite States Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior
to show the limits of the continental
United States cotain some interest
ing facts.
The Southern most point of main
land is Cape Sable, Fla; which is in
latitude 25 degrees and on minutes
and longitude 81 degrees and 05 min.
The extreme southern point of Texas
is in latitude 25 degrees and so min.
and Longitude 81 degrees and24 min.
Cape Sable is therefore 49 miles far
ther south than the most southern
point in Texas
A small deached land area of north
ern Minnesota at longitude 95 degrees
and 09min. extends northward to
latitude 40 degrees and z3 min.
/ The easternmost point of the
United States is West Quoddy Head
near Eastport, Maine, in longitude
Al degrees ad 81 min. and latitude
Al degrees and 49 min; the western.
most point is Cape Alva, Wash; il
latitude 43 degrees and10 min. which
extends into the Pacific Osean tc
longitude 124 degrees and As min.
! From the southernmost point il
Texas due north to the forty-nintF
parallel, the boundary between thu
United States and Canada, the dis
tance is 1888 miles. From Wes
0uoddy Head due west to the Pacifi,
Ocean the distance is 2,807 miles
The shortest distance from the At
lantic to the Pacific across the Unit
ed States is between points nea
Charleston, S. C. and San Diego, Cal
: and is 2,152 miles.
The length of the Canadian bound
: ary line from the Atlantic to tn
Pacific is 1898. The length Of Mexi
ican boundary from the Gulf to tn
Pacific is LIZA miles. The length O
the. Atlantic coast line is $500 mile
and that of the Pacific coast line
2,730 miles. The Gulf of Mexic
borders the United States for 1854
miles.
Nearly all maps of the Unite
States show the parallels of latitud
as curved lines and are likely to lea
II the ordinary observer to believe th;
! certain eastern or western States al
r actually in the same ceatral State
!. that are usually in same lati -uee. Fl
this reason, one who is asked whic
d extends farther south, Florida {
+ Texas, is very likely to say "'Te.;as
but, as stated, the mainland of FL
N is nearly so miles farther south ths
h the southernmost point in Texas. F.
" the same reason. when we consid
the geographic positions of count RI
south of the United States we fiji
: that errors are likely to be made
= estimating position or extent in lor
itude. Few realize that the island
Cuba, for example, if transpos
direct north would extend from Ne
York City to Indiana, or the Habal
is farther west than Cleveland, Or
or that the Panama Canal is d
south of Pittsburg, Pa, or that Nor
Alaska, is farther west than Hawa