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Missouri v. Iowa, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 660 (1849), is a 9-to-0 ruling which held that the Sullivan Line of 1816 was the accepted boundary between the states of Iowa and Missouri. The ruling resolved a long-standing border dispute between the two states, which had nearly erupted in military clashes during the so-called "Honey War" of 1839.
Under the Boundary Treaty of 1970 and earlier treaties, the United States and Mexico have maintained the actual course of the river as the international boundary, but both must approve proposed changes. From 1989 to 2009, there were 128 locations where the river changed course, causing land that had been on one side of the river to then occupy ...
This dispute was resolved in 1999 when the islands were awarded to Yemen through international arbitration, and the Eritreans complied with the verdict. Shatt al-Arab Iran Iraq: 1936 1988 Settled by the 1975 Algiers Agreement. Reneged on by Iraq in 1980, but re-agreed to in 1988. Makati–Taguig boundary dispute: Taguig Makati Pateros: 1983 2023
The conflicting grants led to a long-running border dispute between Maryland and Virginia. [6] The two states settled navigational and riparian water rights in a compact in 1785, but the boundary dispute continued. [7] [8] [9] Maryland entered into a separate dispute with Virginia regarding the placement of its true southern boundary in the west.
The Alaska boundary dispute with Canada was resolved, generally in favor of the United States claim. [279] Northwestern North America: December 10, 1903 Land along southern Guantánamo Bay was leased in perpetuity from Cuba for use as a naval base; [338] the treaty took effect February 23, 1903, and the formal handover occurred on this date. [339]
Each country used a mildly differing method to define an equidistant water boundary. The two separate water areas in dispute amount to about 51.5 km 2 (19.9 sq mi). [3] Yukon–Alaska dispute, Beaufort Sea (Alaska and Yukon) Canada supports an extension into the sea of the land boundary between Yukon and Alaska. The U.S. does not but instead ...
Florida claimed that the state line was a straight line (called McNeil's line, for the man who surveyed it for the U.S. government in 1825) from the confluence of Georgia's Chattahoochee and Flint rivers (forming the Apalachicola River, at a point now under Lake Seminole), then very slightly south of due east to the source of the St. Mary's River, which was the point specified in Pinckney's ...
International territorial disputes of the United States (3 C, 22 P) S. Separatism in the United States (12 C, 55 P) T. Texas border disputes (19 P)