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32 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.

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.

Beverly Hills, West Virginia

Beverly Hills is the name of two communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Blair, West Virginia

Blair 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.

David Nordyke

David H. Nordyke (February 4, 1952 – December 29, 2003) was an American educator who co-wrote the Charter School Bill for the U.S. state of Ohio.

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".

Federal Reserve Bank

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

Flatiron Construction

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

Frogtown, Virginia

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

Glenwood, Oregon

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

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.

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.

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (secretary of state) is the principal public information officer of the state government of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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.

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.

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.

Round Hill, Virginia

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

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.

Stumptown, Virginia

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

Toyota Voltz

It was assembled by NUMMI in Fremont, in the U.S. state of California and marketed by Toyota in its home market of Japan, but curtailed after a disappointing sales volume of just over 10,000 units.

Valley Fair Shopping Center

The Valley Fair Shopping Center, Valley Fair Mall, or Valley Fair Center was a shopping mall in Appleton, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that opened on March 10, 1955.

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.

Wyndham Meredith Manning

Wyndham Meredith Manning (1890–1967) was a South Carolina politician and the scion of a political dynasty in that U.S. state.


37th parallel north

Landmarks on the 37th parallel include Santa Cruz, California; Gilroy, California; Madera, California; Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley; Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point); Cairo, Illinois; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Newport News, Virginia.

Alonzo Cook

Throughout their marriage, Cook and his wife relocated on several occasions, living in Iowa, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and California.

Baseball Ontario

On June 4, 1838, a year before Abner Doubleday was recognized with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York, two teams from Oxford and Zorra townships met in Beachville, Ontario in what is now known as the first documented game in North American history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Green Mountain Falls is a Statutory Town in El Paso and Teller counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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.

Hebron, West Virginia

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

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.

J. Paul Getty

They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town.

Jabez Vodrey

Jabez Vodrey died in 1861 and his son John was killed in the Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia while fighting for the Union Army's 46th Pennsylvania Infantry on May 25, 1864.

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.

Millsboro, Delaware

Thus, it is one of only three cities in the United States to record both its state's extreme temperatures, the others being Chester, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Missouri.

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.

North Star Camp

The campers at North Star are boys aged 8–15 who come from all over the country (including Chicago, Texas, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, St. Louis, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, California, Florida, Kansas City, Omaha, and many more).

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.

Paropeas achatinaceum

Although it has not been reported from anywhere else in the Neotropics, it was recently (December 2002) intercepted during preclearance of a shipment of Eryngium from Puerto Rico to Georgia, USA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.