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37 unusual facts about U.S. state


Adalin Wichman

Adalin Wichman (1922 – March 10, 2013) was an American sculptor and artist from the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Arden, West Virginia

Arden is the name of two unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Arlington, West Virginia

Arlington is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Arnold, West Virginia

Arnold is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Baxter, West Virginia

Baxter is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Camden City Hall

Camden City Hall is the house of government for the City of Camden and Camden County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Canfield, West Virginia

Canfield is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Colorado State Treasurer

The Treasurer of the State of Colorado is one of the five elected officials of the U.S. state of Colorado.

Connecticut State Navy

The Connecticut State Navy was the colonial (and later, state) navy of Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War.

D-

Placed before a U.S. state, usually in parentheses, indicates the person it applies to is a Democratic Party politician of that state.

Deviant sexual intercourse

Deviant sexual intercourse is, in some U.S. states, a legal term for "any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another person".

Flatiron Construction

Flatiron Construction Corporation is a heavy civil infrastructure contractor headquartered in Firestone, in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Harper, West Virginia

Harper is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Hebron, West Virginia

Hebron is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Howardsville, Virginia

Howardsville is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Inter-Entity Boundary Line

There are no border controls, and crossing the IEBL is akin to crossing a U.S. state or Schengen state boundary.

Jimtown, West Virginia

Jimtown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Johnsontown, West Virginia

Johnsontown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Laws on crossbows

Like many other laws on weapons and hunting in the United States, laws on crossbows vary a great deal by state.

Louis Dyer

Louis Dyer (1851–1908) was an American educator and author born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.

M'bwebwe

The M'bwebwe painters and poets originally met while attending Kent State University in the U.S. state of Ohio in the mid-1970s.

Maryland High School Assessments

The Maryland High School Assessments (HSA) are standardized tests that measure school and individual student progress toward the High School Core Learning Goals of the U.S. state of Maryland, which were established after passing of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Medium-speed vehicle

The U.S. states of Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, and Washington all now have laws that allow for such vehicles.

Miss Basketball

Miss Basketball is an award given to the best high school girls basketball player in a specific U.S. state.

New Hope, West Virginia

New Hope is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner

In the U.S. state of North Dakota, the Agriculture Commissioner, formerly known as the Commissioner, is an elected official who heads the North Dakota Department of Agriculture.

Pigeon Hill, Virginia

Pigeon Hill is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.

President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate

Henry S. Johnston, of Perry, was sworn into office as the first president pro tempore on November 16, 1907, the same day Oklahoma was admitted U.S. state.

Rockland, West Virginia

Rockland is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Secretary of State of Arkansas

The Secretary of State of Arkansas is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

Secretary of State of Colorado

The office is one of five elected constitutional offices in the state.

Secretary of State of Vermont

The Secretary of State of Vermont is one of five cabinet-level constitutional officers in the U.S. state of Vermont which are elected every two years.

Show-Me State Games

The Show-Me STATE GAMES (SMSG) is an Olympic-style competition for amateur athletes in the U.S. state of Missouri, held in the city of Columbia.

Transportation in Shreveport

Shreveport is the third largest city and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as being the 109th largest city in the United States.

Traverse Bay

Traverse Bay may refer to two bays off Lake Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan

Walnut Valley Unified School District

The Walnut Valley Unified School District is located in the eastern portion of Los Angeles County and is a part of the Greater Los Angeles Area of the U.S. state of California.

Western Basin of Lake Erie

Even with average depths of less than 25 feet, this part of the lake contains world famous walleye fishing grounds with numerous charter fishing boats operating out of the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio and the Canadian province of Ontario.


Annie Miner Peterson

Annie Miner Peterson (1860-1939) was a Coos Indian from the U.S. state of Oregon who was a cultural and linguistic consultant to Melville Jacobs, an anthropologist at the University of Washington.

Anthony Chabot

He was involved in several other businesses during this time, including a paper mill in Stockton, the Judson Manufacturing Company in Oakland, the Pioneer Pulp Mill Company near Alta (Placer County), the Puget Sound Iron Company, and a large tract of land in Washington state for the cultivation of cranberries.

Boeing Condor

During its evaluations, the Condor logged over 300 hours of mission flying over Moses Lake, Washington.

Box End

Carter landed on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia and settled around what is now known as the city of Americus.

California State Route 73

State Route 73 (SR 73) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, running from the junction with Interstate 405 in Irvine through the San Joaquin Hills to its junction with Interstate 5 in San Juan Capistrano, its northern and southern terminii, respectively.

Carol Carr

Carol Scott Carr (born 1939) is an American woman from the state of Georgia who became the center of a widely publicized debate over euthanasia when she killed her adult sons because they were suffering from Huntington's disease.

Council of Governors

The Council of Governors is composed of 10 members, selected by the President for a term of 2 years from among the governors of the several states and territories of the United States and the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Dallas Protocol

Dallas Protocol is a public-private partnership between the City of Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, established in March 2003.

David Skrbina

He stood for the office of Lieutenant Governor for the U.S. state of Michigan as the Green Party candidate in 2006, as the running mate of Douglas Campbell.

Fort Niobrara Wilderness

The Fort Niobrara Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Nebraska, near Valentine.

Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, at one time, owned and operated a ferry and store on Shaw Island part of the San Juan Islands in the state of Washington.

Frogtown, Virginia

Frogtown is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.

H. Lawrence Gibbs

According to Richard Carlton Haney in his book Canceled Due to Racism, the impetus for Gibbs's bill was probably the preceding Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans in January 1956, when the University of Pittsburgh brought a black fullback, Bobby Grier, for the game with Georgia Tech of Atlanta, Georgia.

Hook Tavern

The Hook family and its descendants owned the tavern and its surrounding property from 1840 until 1987 when it was purchased by real estate developer Edward Noble of Atlanta, Georgia.

Hygrophorus bakerensis

The specific epithet bakerensis refers to Mount Baker, a volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, where the mushroom was first collected.

Israel Nash

The album was recorded during the summer of 2010 on a small farm located in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Jonathan Simons

At 41 years old, Simons was recruited by the Georgia governor Roy Barnes and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta to be the Founding Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.

Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties

The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties (MBA) is a trade association of homebuilders, remodelers and associated businesses in the state of Washington.

Mauri S. Pelto

Mauri Pelto has been studying the glaciers in the North Cascades located in the U.S. state of Washington since 1984.

Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon

Mount Hood Parkdale is the official United States Postal Service-designated name of the combined post offices of the communities of Mount Hood and Parkdale in the U.S. state of Oregon.

New Atlanta Falcons stadium

The New Falcons Stadium is the working title for a proposed retractable-roof, multi-purpose stadium in Atlanta, Georgia that will serve as the home of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL).

North Admiral, Seattle

North Admiral (or simply the Admiral District) is the oldest neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington.

Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai'i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.

Peggie Castle

Born Peggy Blair in Appalachia in Wise County in far southwestern Virginia, Castle was discovered by a talent scout while eating in a restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Prayer for Judgement Continued

The Prayer For Judgement law in North Carolina and South Carolina, unlike other U.S. states, allows traffic violators and some misdemeanor offenders to plead guilty for an offence and then ask for a "Prayer For Judgement" from the judge.

Protogygia comstocki

It is found in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico as well as the Hanford Central and Wahluke dunes in Washington.

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.

Rice production in the United States

Between 1866 and 1880, the annual production of the three States averaged just under 41 million pounds, of which South Carolina produced more than 50 percent.

Richard Urquhart Goode

In 1889, he was appointed a geographer with the Survey and was placed in charge of surveys of the Pacific Coast States - California, Oregon, and Washington.

Round Hill, Virginia

Round Hill is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.

RuSHA Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Lee B. Wyatt (presiding judge), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Daniel T. O'Connell of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma.

Seal of Ohio

The Great Seal of the State of Ohio features the U.S. state's coat of arms surrounded by the words, "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF OHIO" in news gothic capitals (ORC §5.10).

Sizing Up the Senate

Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation, by Frances E. Lee and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, is a book that analyzes the behavior of United States Senators based on the size of the states they represent.

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.

Steve Thurston

During his studies at Messiah College, He participated in a program through Asbury University and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) where he received training, and later worked in paid broadcasting positions at the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1996 with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Broadcasting Company.

Stumptown, Virginia

Stumptown refers to several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

The Business of Fancydancing

The film explores the tension between two Spokane men who grew up together on the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington state: Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) and Aristotle (Gene Tagaban).

The Compromising of Integrity, Morality and Principles in Exchange for Money Tour

The "Compromising of Integrity, Morality, & Principles in Exchange for Money" was a multi-band tour which began October 9, 2008 in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr

Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr (9 July 1577 – 7 June 1618) was the Englishman after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States.

Wakashan languages

Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

William L. Downing

William L. Downing is a judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle) and a former deputy prosecutor.

Zack Silva

Zack Silva (born May 9, 1980 in Orcas Island, Washington) is an American actor known for his role as Alex Thomas on Desire.