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The Four Corners area is named after the quadripoint at the intersection of approximately 37° north latitude with 109° 03′ west longitude, where the boundaries of the four states meet, and is marked by the Four Corners Monument. It is the only location in the United States where four states meet.
The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to the area being named the Four Corners region. [ 2 ]
Tri-State Corner. Marker on dry land at surface level and unmarked on lake in cavern directly below. Stolen in 2009 and returned two years later. [3] [4] [5] Arizona: Nevada: Utah: Marked with a red sandstone monument. [6] Arkansas: Louisiana: Mississippi
The Four Corners Monument is the only point in the United States where four states meet: Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet at right angles. The United States first acquired the area now called Four Corners from Mexico after the Mexican–American War in 1848.
The North American monsoon plays an important role in the climate of the Four Corners states, ... amount by historical standards for a town that typically gets less than 4 inches in an entire year
Four Corners Monument recognizes the only quadripoint in the United States. [7] Members of the Navajo Nation (Utah, Arizona , and New Mexico ), and the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation (Colorado) live in the Four Corners region on land surrounding the monument.
U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. It was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666 ( US 666 ). With the US 666 designation, the road was nicknamed the "Devil's Highway" because of the significance of the number 666 to many Christian denominations as the Number ...
The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.