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Minnesota: South Dakota: True point is marked with a disc in the center of a T-shaped road intersection. [22] A witness monument nearby in the South Dakota corner acknowledges the tri-point being set in 1859. Kansas: Missouri: Oklahoma
Oakdale Township was organized in 1858. [8] The city of Oakdale is the result of a consolidation of Oakdale and Northdale Townships in the 1970s, and continued to annex land well into the 1990s. Arthur Stephen suggested the name "Oakdale" at the first town meeting on November 1, 1858. Stephen was born on March 30, 1830, in Scotland.
The West North Central states form one of the nine geographic subdivisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau.. Seven states compose the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota and it makes up the western half of the United States Census Bureau's larger region of the Midwest, the eastern half of which ...
Missouri border on the Missouri River within Kansas City 40°00′00″N 102°03′06″W / 40.00000°N 102.05167°W / 40.00000; -102 Colorado border near the CO-KS-NE tripoint
Map of the United States c. 1849 (modern state borders), with the parallel 36°30′ north—slave states in red, free states in blue This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white) with parallel 36°30′ north prominently indicated.
The Cloverdale archaeological site (23BN2) is an important site near St. Joseph, Missouri. It is located at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River. It was occupied by Kansas City Hopewell peoples (ca. 100 to 500 CE). Secondly, it was occupied about 1000-1250 CE, by Steed-Kisker peoples.
Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891, and is the source of the Mississippi River. [21] Today Minnesota has 72 state parks and recreation areas, 58 state forests covering about four million acres (16,000 km 2), and numerous state wildlife preserves, all managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Iowa – A U-shaped area including the Missouri River valley on the west and the Mississippi hill country on the east. [3] Kansas – Eight counties in the northeast corner. [3] Nebraska – Thirty eastern counties from the Missouri River to about the 98 latitude or about 100 miles (160 km) of the state. [3]