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In 1774, commissioners from Pennsylvania and Virginia met to negotiate their boundary, which at the time involved Pennsylvania's southern border west of Maryland and its entire western border. Both sides agreed that Pennsylvania's grant made its western border a tracing of the course of the Delaware River, displaced five degrees (approximately ...
Of the original Thirteen Colonies, Pennsylvania is the only state that does not border the Atlantic Ocean. The boundaries of the state are the Mason–Dixon line (39°43' N) to the south, Twelve-Mile Circle on the Pennsylvania- Delaware border, the Delaware River to the east, 80°31' W to the west, and the 42° N to the north, except for a ...
Pennsylvania is bordered on the north and northeast by New York; on the east by New Jersey; on the south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia; on the west by Ohio; and on the northwest by Lake Erie. It has a small border on Lake Erie with Canada. The Delaware, Susquehanna, Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers are the state's major rivers.
Westsylvania was a proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. First proposed early in the American Revolution , Westsylvania would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.
The Twelve-Mile Circle is an approximately circular arc that forms most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania. It is a combination of different circular arcs that have been feathered together. [1] [2] It is nominally a circle with a variable radius of approximately 12 miles (19 km) centered in the town of New Castle, Delaware. [3]
West Virginia 37°32′17″N 81°58′5″W / 37.53806°N 81.96806°W / 37.53806; -81 Marked with a USCG marker on top of a two-foot high iron pipe at the river's high point.
West Virginia border on the shore of the Ohio River in Burlington 41°14′59″N 80°31′07″W / 41.24972°N 80.51861°W / 41.24972; -80 Pennsylvania border north of West Hill
The northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state. It is the state's northernmost extension, bounded by Ohio and the Ohio River on the north and west and the state of Pennsylvania on the east.