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31 unusual facts about U.S. State


American state

U.S. state, a federated constituent state of the United States of America

Arden, West Virginia

Arden is the name of two 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.

Avondale, West Virginia

Avondale is the name of several 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.

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.

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".

Dexter Mussey

Dexter Mussey (born January 12, 1811 - June 29, 1890) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Federal Reserve Bank

New York, Richmond, and San Francisco are the only banks that oversee non-U.S. state territories.

Five Moons

The Five Moons are five Native American ballerinas from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who achieved international prominence during the 20th century.

Flatiron Construction

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

Glenwood, Oregon

Glenwood, Oregon refers to the name of three different unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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.

Johnsontown, West Virginia

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

Louis Dyer

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

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.

Mount Olivet, West Virginia

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

Munster, Moselle

Some of the church's features were replicated in the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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.

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.

Rockland, West Virginia

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

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.

Vehicle registration plates of New Mexico

The U.S. state of New Mexico first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1912.

Vehicle registration plates of Rhode Island

The U.S. state of Rhode Island first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1904.

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.


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.

Bo Bartlett

Bo Bartlett currently lives and paints on an island off the coast of Maine in summer, and on an island in the Puget Sound in Washington through the winter.

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.

Bristol, Washington

Bristol is located on State Route 10 between Cle Elum and Thorp in Kittitas County, Washington, United States.

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.

Center Park

Center Park, located at 2121 26th Avenue South, is a subsidized high-rise building complex located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, designed to provide living accommodation to physically or mentally challenged individuals and their caretakers.

Christopher Mullane

In the mid 1970s he served as an exchange officer at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Clarence Jordan

The Cotton Patch series used American analogies for places in the New Testament; Rome became Washington, D.C., Judaea became Georgia (the Governor of Judaea became the Governor of Georgia), Jerusalem became Atlanta, and Bethlehem became Gainesville, Georgia.

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.

Duckwater, Nevada

Duckwater is an American village located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Nevada, in the desert at about the same latitude as Sacramento, California.

Erna Gunther

An American Indian specialist, her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State, with publications on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology.

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.

Franklinia

The sole species in this genus is a flowering tree, Franklinia alatamaha, commonly called the Franklin tree, and native to the Altamaha River valley in Georgia in the southeastern United States.

Fred S. Clinton

Young Fred was educated in the national schools of the Creek Nation then went off to study at St. Francis Institute in Osage, Kansas, Drury College (now Drury University) (Springfield, Missouri), Gem City Business College (Quincy, Illinois), and Young Harris College in Georgia.

Frogtown, Virginia

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

Georgia Line

The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress.

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.

Harper, West Virginia

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

Herty, Texas

The area is named after Dr. Charles Herty, a Georgia chemist that developed the first process to create paper from southern pine.

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.

Joseph M. Hendricks

Joseph Millard Hendricks PhD, was a Columbus Roberts Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University in Georgia, United States.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

Laugerud received part of his military training in the United States, attending classes at Fort Benning, Georgia, and at Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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.

National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators

Its formation was largely in response to high-profile, deadly crane accidents in California (a crane accident killed five in San Francisco's Financial District in November 1989 and another crane accident killed one and caused a fire at Edwards Air Force Base in September 1990) and in Washington state (a July 1994 crane accident at the Kingdome in Seattle killed two and injured one).

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.

Oconee War

The Oconee War was a military conflict in the 1780s and 1790s between European Americans and the Creek Indians known as the Oconee, who lived in an area between the Apalachee and North Oconee rivers in the state of Georgia.

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

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

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.

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).

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

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.

Stumptown, Virginia

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

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).

Thomas J. Moyer

Moyer presided over the DeRolph decision dealing with school funding, as well as the late 1990s' legal battle over tort reform.

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.

Track of the Cat

The outdoor scenes were filmed on Mount Rainier, Washington and Mitchum regarded shooting in the deep snow and cold as the worst filming conditions he had ever experienced.

Traverse Bay

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

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.

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.