May 12, 2022 Wyoming Geography and Famous Natives Wyoming geography Wyoming, like most western American states, exhibits a wide range of striking landforms that are astounding in many ways. In Wyoming, those…
May 12, 2022 Wisconsin Geography and Famous Natives Wisconsin geography Rolling green hills continue the western third of Wisconsin. Called the Western Highlands, they end up in sandstone bluffs and bluffs that…
May 12, 2022 West Virginia Geography and Famous Natives Geography of West Virginia Most of West Virginia is heavily forested land, dominated by the Appalachian Mountain System, which covers nearly two-thirds of the…
May 12, 2022 Washington Geography and Famous Natives Washington geography Rugged cliffs and numerous bays front Washington Pacific coastline. In the far northwest, the Olympic Mountains dominate the landscape. Further south the…
May 12, 2022 Virginia Geography and Famous Natives Richmond Virginia A prosperous capital bordering the James River in central Virginia, Richmond has been the capital of Virginia since 1780. This city has…
May 12, 2022 Vermont Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Vermont Vermont is dominated (from south to north) by the wooded Green Mountains. This northern range of the Appalachain Mountains includes more…
May 12, 2022 Utah Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Utah Utah is divided into three distinct landform regions, including the Colorado Plateau of the south and southeast, the central Rocky Mountains,…
May 12, 2022 Texas Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Texas Along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, the land is flat, where bayous, bays, islands, and marshes dominate the landscape….
May 12, 2022 Tennessee Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Tennessee Various ranges of the Appalachian mountain system cover the eastern third of Tennessee, including the Baldy, Smoky Big, Holston, Stone, Unaka,…
May 12, 2022 South Dakota Geography and Famous Natives Geography of South Dakota The fertile Great Plains of North America cover almost 75% of South Dakota. These plains are generally flat in the…
May 12, 2022 South Carolina Geography and Famous Natives Geography of South Carolina South Carolina is divided into four distinct regions; Sea Islands, Atlantic Lowlands, Piedmont Plateau and Blue Ridge Mountains. Hundreds of…
May 12, 2022 Rhode Island Geography and Famous Natives Rhode Island Geography From the tooth-edge coastline and coastal lowlands, the land of Rhode Island rises gently into the rolling hills central and north….
May 12, 2022 Pennsylvania Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Pennsylvania Almost entirely covered in mountains, much of the state is a series of rolling hills, plateaus and ridges punctuated by valleys….
May 12, 2022 Oregon Geography and Famous Natives Oregon geography Oregon’s Pacific coastline of rugged cliffs (over 1,000 feet high) where the land then rises into the Coastal Range and the Klamath…
May 12, 2022 Oklahoma Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Oklahoma The Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada, through Oklahoma, and on into…
May 12, 2022 Ohio Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Ohio Scattered dunes are found across the shoreline of Lake Ohio Erie. East of Cleveland, a slightly raised clay bluff overlooks the…
May 12, 2022 North Carolina Geography and Famous Natives Geography of North Carolina North Carolina is divided into four distinct regions; The Outer Banks, the Atlantic Lowlands, the Piedmont Plateau, and the Appalachian…
May 12, 2022 New York Geography and Famous Natives New York geography New York is dominated by mountains, the entire portion of the Appalachian mountain system that extends into Vermont, New Hampshire and…
May 12, 2022 New Mexico Geography and Famous Natives Geography of New Mexico The Great Plains of North America, sloping east from the Rocky Mountains, cover New Mexico’s eastern border with Texas. This…
May 12, 2022 New Jersey Geography and Famous Natives Geography of New Jersey The island barrier fronts much of the Coastal Plain, a wide area of lowland, swamps and miles of white sand…
May 12, 2022 New Hampshire Geography and Famous Natives New Hampshire geography New Hampshire is dominated (from south to north) by the White Mountains, the northern range of the Appalachians. The main peaks of…
May 12, 2022 Nevada Geography and Famous Natives Nevada geography Nevada is the most mountainous state in the US, with over 150 (named) individual mountain ranges; the main ones include Battle, Mentor,…
May 12, 2022 Nebraska Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Nebraska The Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada, through Nebraska, and on into…
May 12, 2022 Montana Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Montana The western third of Montana is covered by over 50 individual ranges of the Rocky Mountains, with the most significant being…
May 12, 2022 Missouri Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Missouri Located on the eastern edges of the Great Plains of North America, much of Missouri is fertile prairie land, parsed by…
May 12, 2022 Mississippi Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Mississippi The heart of the Mississippi sits between two lowland plains; the Mississippi Plain (or Delta) to the west and the Gulf…
May 12, 2022 Minnesota Geography and Famous Natives Minnesota geography During the Ice Age, the land now called Minnesota was completely covered in glaciers. When those masses of ice receded (or melted),…
May 12, 2022 Michigan Geography and Famous Natives Michigan geography Divided into two separate land areas, and bordered by four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan has the longest coastline in the…
May 12, 2022 Massachusetts Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Massachusetts The coastline of Massachusetts and its offshore islands are remnants of the last Ice Age. It’s jagged and rockbound Atlantic coastline…
May 12, 2022 Maryland Geography and Famous Natives Geography of Maryland The eastern half of Maryland is dominated by the Chesapeake Bay, and the surrounding estuaries and coastal plain. Numerous bays, streams,…