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Outside a specific state plane zone accuracy rapidly declines, thus the system is not useful for regional or national mapping. Most state plane zones are based on either a transverse Mercator projection or a Lambert conformal conic projection. The choice between the two map projections is based on the shape of the state and its zones. States ...
Member of the Northern Illinois Wine Trail [1] and located within the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA. [15] Fox Creek Vineyards and Winery Olney, Illinois: 1999 Member of the Wabash Valley Wine Trail. [6] Fox Valley Winery Oswego, Illinois: 2001 Member of the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. [1] Furrow Vineyard El Paso, Illinois: 2001 Closed in ...
An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated appellation for American wine in the United States distinguishable by geographic, geologic, and climatic features, with boundaries defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) of the United States Department of the Treasury. [1]
The Shawnee Hills AVA is an American Viticultural Area located between the Mississippi River and the Ohio River in southern Illinois.The wine appellation includes over 2,140 square miles (5,500 km 2) of land in portions of Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties.
Illinois wine refers to any wine that is made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2006, Shawnee Hills, in southern Illinois, was named the state's first American Viticultural Area . As of 2008, there were 79 wineries in Illinois, utilizing approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2 ) of vines.
A vineyard in the Leelanau Peninsula AVA, in Michigan.Michigan is home to five AVAs, all adjacent to Lake Michigan.. AVAs vary widely in size, [4] ranging from the Upper Mississippi River Valley AVA, at more than 19 million acres (29,900 square miles (77,000 km 2)) across four states (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), [5] to the Cole Ranch AVA in Mendocino County, California, at only ...
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ADIZ boundaries for the United States and Canada as of 2018. ADIZ boundaries for Alaska. The Air Defense Identification Zone of North America is an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) that covers the airspace surrounding the United States and Canada – in which the ready identification, location, and control of civil aircraft over land or water is required in the interest of national ...