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A Map of the Strange Kentucky Border at the New Madrid Ben… | Flickr Marsh Land, Road Trip Across America, New Madrid, Cartography Map, Map Skills, Missouri River, Family Genealogy, Drive Through, Interesting History

The border of Kentucky at what is known as "The New Madrid Bend" owes it's strangeness to the serpentine path of the Mississippi River. The River was supposed to define the western edge of the state of Kentucky and the Southern edge of Missouri. The result is an exclave peninsula of land in Kentucky that is completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee. To drive here from the rest of Kentucky, you must leave the state, drive through Tennessee and come back into Kentucky. This spot along…

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The 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplateearthquake series beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.5–7.9 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. New Madrid, Classroom Science, History Timeline, Science Ideas, Historical Pictures, Earth Science, Geology, Word Of God, American History

New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12, series of three large earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid, Missouri, between December 1811 and February 1812. There were thousands of aftershocks, of which 1,874 were large enough to be felt in Louisville, Kentucky, about 190 miles (300 km) away. The number of lives lost from the earthquakes remains unknown; however, scholars note that the number was probably not great, because the region had only a sparse rural population. The earthquakes and their…

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