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  • That Confounding Trivia Question

    UPDATE: THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. THEY ANNOUNCED THE CORRECT ANSWER AS STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT. SEE COMMENTS BELOW FOR ISSUES MANY PEOPLE HAVE WITH THIS ANSWER. People searching for the answer to a specific trivia question are hammering the Twelve Mile circle website. I’ve seen dozens of search engine queries and I’ve received several email messages from…

  • A Town’s Odd Streets and Enclaves

    Geo-oddities exist everywhere. You just have to look for them. I came across an interesting situation in Bothell, Washington, fascinating in its own right but leading to a confluence of events even more unusual. So the situation begins with the city’s placement directly atop a boundary line separating King County from Snohomish County. That’s hardly…

  • Adjacent Counties, Same Name, Different States

    We’ve had a lively interactive discussion within the comments section of the recent article, “For Aficionados of Counties.” This doesn’t surprise me. Many of our regular readers are indeed aficionados of counties. In fact I seem to have cornered a great deal of the market on geo-oddities at this tertiary level of US government, not…

  • Vote For a Geo-Oddity Bear

    THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED. WE LOST. CHASKA WON Regular reader “Craig” commented on my recent post, Geo-Oddities Go Hollywood. He was wondering if I was aware that the National Zoo in Washington, DC was considering naming one of its Andean bears after a geo-oddity. I hadn’t known about it so I followed the link that…

  • Geo-Oddities Go Hollywood

    The readers of the Twelve Mile Circle are the greatest. They’re always looking out for me. Loyal visitor “Bill” sent a message letting me know that Hollywood is planning to focus on a popular geo-oddity in an upcoming feature film. Seriously. It would be create quite a splash since it’s the latest project of Kathryn…

  • Shack at the End of the Road

    I strolled vicariously through Street View images leading to the northernmost coverage area of Canada, all the way to the town of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. I pushed further north and further north at the tap of a trackpad until I could move no further on my laptop. Then I arrived right here at…

  • Virtual Photography

    Just a quick note today to pass along a website recommendation: I spotted an entry called Virtual Photography with Google Street View on the Google Sightseeing website earlier today. It was a guest article by Matt Bucher who maintains a blog called Apres Garde. He takes a unique perspective on Street View, using its underlying…

  • For Aficionados of Counties

    I know there are several regular readers of Twelve Mile Circle who are fascinated with the county level of government in the United States. Some of you are county counters, others of you are county highpointers, and still others might be county radio hunters. All of you are aficionados of this phenomenon of one sort…

  • My First Helicopter Ride

    I’d never been in a helicopter until yesterday. It was one of those minor life accomplishments that had been gnawing at me for the longest time. I’d had plenty of opportunities to take care of this before. Somehow the timing wasn’t right or it was too expensive or I was tired or I wanted to…

  • Cheesy Orlando

    I’ve arrived at the fourth Orlando described on my previous article and settled in for the week. It was viciously hot in Florida yesterday afternoon when I first arrived, 93° f. / 34° c., but I did manage to get outside and walk about some local sights such as they were. I’m based in the…

Latest Comments

  1. That was its original range before people spread it all around. Now it’s in lots of different places, including Oklahoma.

  2. I think that range needs to be expanded greatly. I’m in the Oklahoma City area and those are fairly prevalent…

  3. The law in the 1800s when most of the countries was being broke down into smaller one stated that you…

  5. Hi Mr. Howder — Just going from memory, I recall that your “rule” for counting a nation/state/county is “if I’m…