Wyoming geography Wyoming, like most western American states, exhibits a wide range of striking landforms that are astounding in many ways. In Wyoming, those would include Devil’s Tower, Fossil Butte, Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. In general terms, the Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada,…
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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 overlook the Mississippi and Santa Cruz rivers. The Scottish Highlands (anchored by the Hayward, Eagle River and Wasau) is a forested, rolling region that includes the state’s highest point, Timms Hill,…
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 state. The most significant range of the state (Allegheny), extends from the southern part of the state on to Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The highest peaks in West Virginia are located…
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 Coastal Sierra and the Willapa Hills appear to blend into Oregon. Directly to the east of those hills and mountains, Puget Sound stretches the Lowlands south from the Canadian border to…
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 been the stage of many historical events, and its role as the capital of the Confederate States of America has left a permanent mark on American history. Jefferson Davis lived in…
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 than 200 mountains over 2,000 feet in elevation. The highest is Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest point at 4,393 feet. Lake Champlain, covering Vermont’s northwestern border with New York City, is the…
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, and the basin and ridge region of the northwest, which includes the Great Salt Lake and numerous salt beds. As for the central Rocky Mountains, the snowy Uinta and Wasatch Mountains…
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. From there, the land gently rises (central and west) into the rolling hills of the Edwards Plateau, commonly referred to as the Texas Hill Country. In the far north, the Great…
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, and Unicoi mountains. Situated along its border with North Carolina, Clingmans Domes (at 6,643 ft.) is the state’s highest point. In fact, it is the third highest point in the Appalachian…
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 central states, however, in both North and South Dakota, much of it is hilly and somewhat rugged, especially in the west, where steep, flat-topped hills (hills) dominate the landscape. The Black…
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 offshore islands line its very jagged southeast Atlantic coastline. From there the wide and flat Atlantic lowlands extend inland a close 70 miles. Marshy along the coast, it is crossed by…
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. In the northwest New England Uplands, Jerimoth Hill, the state’s highest point, stands at only 812 feet above sea level. About 12 miles south of the mainland, isolated Block Island is…
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. Over 50% of the land is still covered by forest land and the only lowland is in the southeast. Part of the Appalachians through the center of Pennsylvania, with the Allegheny…
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 Mountains of the south; both are a series of relatively low, heavily forested peaks punctuated by numerous small lakes. Directly to the east of those mountains, the Willamette Lowlands stretch south…
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 the northern regions of Texas. For the most part, Oklahoma is a series of flat plains dissected by rolling hills, ridges and low mountains. The northwest corner ( known as the…
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 lake. The Bass Islands, a group of small, mostly limestone islands, are located off the northern coastline of the state. Kelleis Island, the largest US fresh water island in Lake Erie,…
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 ranges in the far-western reaches of the state. The Outer Banks are a long series of narrow and sandy (some wood-covered) barrier islands that meander into the Atlantic Ocean. Cape Hatteras,…
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 southern Canada. Much of southwestern New York is covered by the lower ranges of the Allegheny Plateau, while the Adirondack and Catskills cover the eastern third of the state. The massive…
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 elevated plateau area gradually blends in with the large ( and flat) treeless regions of western Oklahoma and Texas. The Colorado Plateau, a series of plains, gorges, mountains, and valleys, portions…
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 beaches running almost the entire length of the state. From there, the land rises into several scattered rolling hills, southwest and central. The Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands, are…
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 the White Mountain Range, a series of rugged mountains and narrow valleys, are found in the White Mountain National Forest. New Hampshire’s highest point, Mt. Washington at 6,288 feet is located…
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, Ruby, Santa Rosa, Schell Creek, Sierra Nevada, Snake and Toiyabe. Over 30 of Nevada’s mountain peaks exceed 11,000 feet, with the highest point (Boundary Peak) reaching 13,140 feet. The Great Basin…
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 Texas. The undulating plains (hills) of eastern Nebraska (rural) are criss-crossed by numerous small rivers and streams. In the central plains, the land is more rugged and rather hilly. In western…
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 the Great Belt, Bitterroots and Lewis. Glacier National Park, considered the most rugged place in the continental 48 states, is home to plentiful (unelevated) ice covered peaks. The Continental Divide (imaginary…
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 rivers and streams. To the west, south of the Missouri River, the Osage Plains extend to its border with Kansas; it is mixed tallgrass prairie land with scattered woodlands. In the…
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 Coastal Plain to the east. In general, central Mississippi is hilly as the land rises gently from the Gulf of Mexico coastline to the far northeast highlands, where the state’s highest…
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), they left behind a rocky and pockmarked landscape of rolling hills and plains, tens of thousands of freshwater lakes (in all sizes), numerous rivers and countless small streams. To the west,…
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 continental US – nearly 3,300 miles. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is hilly and rugged in the west, especially in the heavily forested Porcupine Mountains. Further east in the Huron Mountains the state’s…
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 is a mixture of bays, inlets, sandy beaches, oddly shaped islands – all ending in granite cliffs in the far north. Cape Cod National Coast is a constantly moving mass of…
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, salt marshes and small islands seem to be everywhere. The Delmarva Peninsula occupies parts of three US states: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The peninsula is about 180 miles long and nearly…