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The Tennessee–Georgia water dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between the U.S. States of Tennessee and Georgia about whether or not the border between the two states should have been located farther north, allowing a small portion of the Tennessee River to be located in Georgia.
Based on an inaccurate measurement in 1818, the Georgia–Tennessee border does not match the 35th parallel, which was defined as the border by Congress in 1796. Georgia's claim would give it access to the Tennessee River and mitigate the impact of a severe drought. [112] See Tennessee–Georgia water dispute. California–Oregon border Oregon
Pages in category "Territorial disputes of Georgia (country)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992), arose as a private dispute in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, regarding title to land along the west bank of the Mississippi River near Lake Providence, Louisiana. The state of Louisiana intervened, filing a third-party complaint against Mississippi to ...
Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
Norwell acquired the land through tax foreclosures in 1989, and in 2004 residents voted at town meeting to use the land for affordable housing. In 2021, the town requested proposals for Chapter ...
Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States" The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. [1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now ...
The boundary dispute involved a brief armed conflict between the two called the Walton War, followed by an 1807 survey that Georgia refused to accept. Ellicott, hired by Georgia, undertook a new survey that confirmed the earlier line. He engraved a large rock in the Chattooga River with "N-G", standing for North Carolina - Georgia.