In the debate for the title Geographical Center of North America, a new contender has risen, and the namesake may be more literal than originally intended. Center, N.D., an Oliver County town of ...

At nearly 114,000 square miles, the Grand Canyon state is bigger than most. Arizona is the sixth-largest state in the U.S., topped only by Alaska, Texas, California, Montana and New Mexico. It is home ...

Where is the geographic center of a state, country or a continent? It’s a question fraught with uncertainty. Do you include water in your calculation? What about islands? What happens when the ...

Have you ever wondered where the middle of Minnesota is located? Or where to find the center of South Carolina? Every state has a middle. And there’s more than one way to measure that. There are at ...

The readers of the Arkansas Times are a curious lot, and have a lot of questions. So here’s Ask the Times, where we will, to the best of our ability, try to bring light to the darkness. (Question?

Nobody knows exactly how to locate the geographic center of the continent. Nor is there any scientific value in knowing where the center is. So, I figured I should find a geographer and go looking for ...

The small Michigan city of St. Louis claims the geographic center of the state, but there's a Wexford County location that has a similar designation. St. Louis, located just off U.S. 27 in Gratiot ...

San Antonio sprawls across Bexar County like an amorphous blob. “It’s all over the place,” said Tim Pappas, a longtime land surveyor who heads up the local chapter of the Texas Society of Professional ...

Roughly 5 million people call Alabama home, spread across cities such as Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville and the capital, Montgomery. Known as the Heart of Dixie, the state offers a diverse range of ...