A sign north of where the road crosses the Gardner River marks the 45th parallel of latitude. The 45th parallel is an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North ...

The report is dated on page 3: Washington, D.C., August 22, 1854. "Route near the thirty-second parallel. Extract from Report of Lieutenant Colonel Emory, of a military reconnaissance made in 1846 and ...

ART. I. From the point of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line ...

Place and date of publication from p. 5 of report. REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS FOR A RAILWAY ROUTE NEAR THE THIRTYFIFTH PARALLEL OF LATITUDE : FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN BY LIEUT AW ...

24/7 Tempo has taken a look at how each state got its shape. We reviewed materials such as Mark Stein’s book “How the States Got Their Shapes” to find out how each state’s contours fit into the grand ...