Brit here, I always found how the state lines and even roads are organised in the US intriguing. Here it is a random set of roads and city boundaries but American ones seem to have been designed from scratch.
>> Congress defined the borders of Colorado as a geospherical rectangle, stretching from 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude.
I was confused by these longitudes (which a quick check puts the state somewhere over the Atlantic), but these are using the Washington Meridian. The correct longitude boundaries in usual coordinates are 102°03'W and 109°03'W.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 13.9 ms ] threadI was confused by these longitudes (which a quick check puts the state somewhere over the Atlantic), but these are using the Washington Meridian. The correct longitude boundaries in usual coordinates are 102°03'W and 109°03'W.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_meridians