Topic: How close is the nearest state line to your home? (Read 2357 times)

bwana39 · « **Reply #50 on:** November 18, 2020, 03:50:35 PM »

About 15 to Arkansas, About 45 to Louisiana, and a little under 40 to Oklahoma. 540 to New Mexico. These are by the roads.
Arkansas is probably about 5 miles from the house. Oklahoma around 30, and Louisiana around 40 in a straight path.

Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Kansas are all closer to my house than the CLOSEST place in New Mexico. Indiana, Georgia, Nebraska, and Florida are all less than 50 miles further.

davewiecking · « **Reply #51 on:** November 18, 2020, 08:19:01 PM »

About 2200’ to the Potomac River and about 4100’ to the VA border on the other side of the river. And, because I was measuring things, 5700’ to the employee entrance of the CIA parking lot...

Roadgeekteen · « **Reply #52 on:** November 19, 2020, 11:49:16 AM »

About 24 miles to the Northeastern corner of Rhode Island.

1 · « **Reply #53 on:** November 19, 2020, 11:56:11 AM »

I hope this doesn't give my location away.

One thing that's interesting about where I live is that the closest point to New Hampshire is on a corner, but just barely. Move a few hundred feet, and it becomes a perpendicular line instead of a corner.

CoreySamson · « **Reply #54 on:** November 19, 2020, 01:38:23 PM »

From my house it's approximately 102 miles to the Louisiana border at Sabine Pass.

thspfc · « **Reply #55 on:** November 19, 2020, 09:48:18 PM »

One interesting thing about the Great Lakes region is that to get to the Michigan border by car, it's only slightly closer for me to go straight to Michigan at Marinette, entering from Wisconsin, than it is for me to go through two additional states (IL and IN).

J3ebrules · « **Reply #56 on:** November 19, 2020, 11:45:08 PM »

I am apparently carrying on a three-generation tradition of living on a state border, currently 2.02 miles from my bedroom to the PA border in the middle of the Delaware River. Of course, I grew up in Hoboken, with our apartment (yes, I remember the address and am looking this up on Google Earth) 1.07 miles from the NY border in the middle of the Hudson.

However, I’m clearly outdone by both my mother and grandparents, who probably could have shot someone in New Jersey from their home in Chestnut Ridge, NY - 1,037 feet from the NJ border.

TheHighwayMan394 · « **Reply #57 on:** November 20, 2020, 12:14:17 AM »

54 miles to the MN 36/WIS 64 bridge at Stillwater.

sprjus4 · « **Reply #58 on:** November 20, 2020, 01:44:26 AM »

10-15 miles to the NC/VA state line.

KCRoadFan · « **Reply #59 on:** November 20, 2020, 09:39:10 PM »

Me? The Kansas state line is just a mile west of where I live. I could walk there from home - in fact, I often have done so.

cu2010 · « **Reply #60 on:** November 21, 2020, 08:19:27 PM »

8 miles to the nearest legal crossing; about three otherwise.

SkyPesos · « **Reply #61 on:** January 01, 2021, 10:36:09 PM »

about 20 miles to the KY border; the IN border is about 5-8 miles farther away in another direction.

ethanhopkin14 · « **Reply #62 on:** January 03, 2021, 06:29:39 PM »

Living in Central Texas, the closest state line to me is the Texas-Coahuila line. It’s easier to leave the country for me than visit another state.

Scott5114 · « **Reply #63 on:** January 04, 2021, 12:01:26 PM »

Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on January 03, 2021, 06:29:39 PM

Living in Central Texas, the closest state line to me is the Texas-Coahuila line. It’s easier to leave the country for me than visit another state.

Counting the amount of time you'd have to wait at the border and getting Mexican car insurance, it's probably still easier (and maybe even faster) to make it to Oklahoma, Louisiana, or New Mexico than Coahuila.

ethanhopkin14 · « **Reply #64 on:** January 04, 2021, 12:08:17 PM »

Quote from: Scott5114 on January 04, 2021, 12:01:26 PM

Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on January 03, 2021, 06:29:39 PM
Living in Central Texas, the closest state line to me is the Texas-Coahuila line. It’s easier to leave the country for me than visit another state.

Counting the amount of time you'd have to wait at the border and getting Mexican car insurance, it's probably still easier (and maybe even faster) to make it to Oklahoma, Louisiana, or New Mexico than Coahuila.

In jest. In a perfect world, distance wise it's faster.

amroad17 · « **Reply #65 on:** January 05, 2021, 04:11:40 AM »

4 miles to the KY/OH border on the Roebling Suspension Bridge.

Konza · « **Reply #66 on:** January 06, 2021, 03:52:26 AM »

Looks like about 11.5 miles due south, as the crow flies, to the International border between Arizona and Sonora.

epzik8 · « **Reply #67 on:** January 06, 2021, 08:42:36 AM »

MD/PA line is 17 miles to the northwest of me as the crow flies

GaryV · « **Reply #68 on:** January 06, 2021, 09:07:31 AM »

Quote from: epzik8 on January 06, 2021, 08:42:36 AM

MD/PA line is 17 miles to the northwest of me as the crow flies

Wouldn't a due north direction be closer?

7/8 · « **Reply #69 on:** January 08, 2021, 03:31:30 PM »

For me:
NY = 98km in Lake Ontario between Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto
PA = 116km in Lake Erie at the PA/NY/ON tripoint
OH = 125km in Lake Erie at the OH/PA/ON tripoint
MI = 139km in Lake Huron between Bayfield, ON and Forestville, MI
WV = 312km in the Ohio River at the OH/PA/WV tripoint.
QC = 347km in the Ottawa River at Mattawa, ON.

It's kind of cool that WV, which doesn't border ON, is closer than QC. Then again, MB (which does border ON) is 1288km from my house!

dvferyance · « **Reply #70 on:** January 08, 2021, 03:33:55 PM »

The Illinois state line is about 35 miles south. Closet highway that crosses it as the crow flies would be Hwy 83 which keeps it's number in both states.

paulthemapguy · « **Reply #71 on:** January 08, 2021, 04:47:52 PM »

Though I live in a county that borders Indiana, the Indiana state line is still 32-33 miles to the east.

cabiness42 · « **Reply #72 on:** January 08, 2021, 04:54:56 PM »

Quote from: paulthemapguy on January 08, 2021, 04:47:52 PM

Though I live in a county that borders Indiana, the Indiana state line is still 32-33 miles to the east.

That pretty much narrows it down to two counties.

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