Post a fun fact about your state

[memoriesbymichelle]

OK so I am currently living in Arizona. I am originally from California and have also lived in Florida, and Wyoming.

Fun facts about Arizona

1. Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits, more mountains than any one of the other mountain states (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming)

2. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit inside Arizona

3. Arizona became the 48th state and the last of the contiguous states one hundred years ago, on February 14, 1912.

4. Arizona's disparate climate can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the lowest temperature across the nation in the same day. (in the summer here we call it desparate climate lol)

5. There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50.


OK so there are a few from my state. I will post more, but I want to hear from some other states.

 

[blackribbon]

When people tell you where they live or are going in Michigan, they hold up their hand and point at it to give directions. The state of Michigan is shaped like a mitten (with the east side of the state being the thumb), so it works.

 

[blackribbon]

 

[blackribbon]

Texas has the right to secede in its constitution along with in its agreement to join the United States.

 

[Doctor Strangelove]

Well, Florida has the world's oldest shuffleboard court from what I have heard. The first Christmas service in the New World was held here. Not all of Florida is beaches or like Orlando or Miami.

Spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania. Religious tolerance was more of an important value there than in other colonies that had an official church. People heard cannon fire from the battle of Gettysburg 200 miles away.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet in elevation.

 

[Doctor Strangelove]

Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet in elevation.

The Flagstaff area is neat with the San Francisco Peaks (elevation 12,000 ft if I remember) and the extinct volcano - and Meteor Crater is just down the road!

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Arizona has the largest contiguous stand of ponderosa pines in the world stretching from near Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains region.

 

[renewed21]

Our state nickname is misleading

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Our state nickname is misleading

misleading? That IS a weird nickname, never heard that one before

 

[renewed21]

misleading? That IS a weird nickname, never heard that one before

my state has mountains

 

[CounselorForChrist]

Living in Ohio I don't really feel theres anything special except for the fact there where I live has NO real problems....ever. No earthquakes, no hurricanes, no tornados, no flooding... no natural disasters of any sort. Even during winter the blizzards come in off the lake and either dump lots of snow west of Cleveland or on the north east edge of Ohio.

So thats about the only special thing about the state for me. Although I don't the fact there are three nuclear pants in a triangle around us. The one to our east is less then 20 miles away so we would die instantly. The one to the west would cause fallout and kill us. The one to the south would likely do the same.

 

[blackribbon]

The Wright brothers and John Glenn were from Ohio...so both air flight...and the birth of the first man to orbit the earth ... started in Ohio.

 

[Life2Christ]

Interesting facts about my state: (NY)

1.) Most of it is rural (85%)
2.)There is a high school in Brooklyn, NY which opened in 1785 and the building is still there and it is still a high school!
3.) My state was founded by the Dutch
4.) The long island which sticks out from NY state consists of 4 counties. We do not live on the continental United States. LOL.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Interesting facts about my state: (NY)

1.) Most of it is rural (85%)
2.)There is a high school in Brooklyn, NY which opened in 1785 and the building is still there and it is still a high school!
3.) My state was founded by the Dutch
4.) The long island which sticks out from NY state consists of 4 counties. We do not live on the continental United States. LOL.

Wow I didn't know 85% of NY was rural. Who would have guessed by the way they cram millions of people in the other 15% ?
Also interesting about the High School!

 

[renewed21]

If you like sammiches then you probably ate one of our biggest commodities.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

If you like sammiches then you probably ate one of our biggest commodities.

Are you gonna tell us which state is yours or are we supposed to guess?

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Yuma Arizona is the country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation covering 113,909 square miles

Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands.

 

[renewed21]

chances are you've flown over my state.

 

[MennoII]

Yuma Arizona is the country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation covering 113,909 square miles

Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands.

Yea, I was an army brat so when I was 6-8 years old, I lived down in Arizona, in the early 70's, I loved that state.

My home state is known as the North Star State; capital is St. Paul; and has a piece of land that can only be reach by going through Manitoba, Canada, unless it is winter and the lake is frozen, or you go by boat. Minnesota, also has Walnut Creek, where the Little House on the Prairie Series on TV would have token place. Oh yea, we have some real lousy winters up this way, although so far this unofficial winter has been mild.