Talk:Sikeston, Missouri
From Geohashing
I disagree -- I think this does contain a tiny bit of Arkansas. If you look at a high zoom level near the Tennessee border, you'll see a tiny strip of Arkansas inside this graticule.
- Don't always trust Google, the Mercator projection doesn't always match up to reality.
- "In late 1818, a Kentucky congressman proposed the territorial boundary of Missouri and Arkansas as the thirty-sixth latitude from the Mississippi west. The political maneuvering is not well recorded, but the act of Congress of March 2, 1819, creating Arkansas Territory defines the northern boundary as beginning on the Mississippi River at latitude thirty-six degrees north and running west to the St. Francis River, then up the river to latitude thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes north, and then west, thereby creating the Missouri boot heel. Therefore, the boot heel was established when Congress created Arkansas Territory, for it was two years later that Missouri was admitted to the union." [Source] -- Moose Hole 21:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
