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33 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.

Arlington, West Virginia

Arlington is the name of several 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.

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.

D-

Placed before a U.S. state, usually in parentheses, indicates the person it applies to is a Democratic Party politician of that state.

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".

Finch College

Finch College was a baccalaureate women's college located in Manhattan, New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

Frogtown, Virginia

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

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.

Howardsville, Virginia

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

Inter-Entity Boundary Line

There are no border controls, and crossing the IEBL is akin to crossing a U.S. state or Schengen state boundary.

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.

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.

Miss Basketball

Miss Basketball is an award given to the best high school girls basketball player in a specific U.S. state.

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.

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.

Rockland, West Virginia

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

Saratoga, Virginia

Saratoga is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Virginia, United States.

Secretary of State of Vermont

The Secretary of State of Vermont is one of five cabinet-level constitutional officers in the U.S. state of Vermont which are elected every two years.

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.

Traverse Bay

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

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.

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.


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.

Beverly Hills, West Virginia

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

Boeing Condor

During its evaluations, the Condor logged over 300 hours of mission flying over Moses Lake, Washington.

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.

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.

Colorado State Treasurer

The Treasurer of the State of Colorado is one of the five elected officials of the U.S. state of Colorado.

Dallas Protocol

Dallas Protocol is a public-private partnership between the City of Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, established in March 2003.

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.

Edwin Harrison McHenry

In the 1880s on the Northern Pacific, McHenry was the principal assistant engineer on Stampede Pass during the construction of Stampede Tunnel, linking western Washington and especially the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the East by rail.

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.

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.

Israel Nash

The album was recorded during the summer of 2010 on a small farm located in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Ivan L. R. Lemelle

During 2009, Lemelle was assigned the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case alleged against Renée Gill Pratt and Mose Jefferson, brother of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson, who simultaneously stood indicted on sixteen counts in federal court in Virginia.

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.

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.

Lot Hathaway House

The Lot Hathaway House is a historic residence near East Claridon in the Connecticut Western Reserve region of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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.

Mauri S. Pelto

Mauri Pelto has been studying the glaciers in the North Cascades located in the U.S. state of Washington since 1984.

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.

Pentidotea wosnesenskii

Pentidotea wonsnesenskii is a marine isopod which lives on seaweed on rocky shores along the British Columbia and Washington coastlines, as far south as San Francisco.

Protogygia comstocki

It is found in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico as well as the Hanford Central and Wahluke dunes in Washington.

Richard Jantz

Jantz has also played a role in the scientific examination and legal challenge associated with the discovery of Kennewick Man found in Washington on the Columbia River in 1996 and radiocarbon dated to ca.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.