Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — The Most Northern Point of the United States. [ARTICLE]

The Most Northern Point of the United States.

William A. Mowry writes in the New England Journal of Education: If the question were a9ked, “Which is the most northern part of the United States, excepting Alaska?” perhaps many would say, “The line of i'J deg., fiom the Lake of the Woods to the Strait of He Fuca.” But that answer would be tncorrect. There is a point where the United States reaches 49 deg. 28 min. 54 sec. north latitude.

It ia in longitude 95 deg. 14 min. 33 see. west from Greenwich. In other words, at the Lake of the Woods* in Minnesota, our territory includes a small area reaching beyond 49 deg. more than twenty-five miles. This little excrescence, jutting out into British America, is recently put down in some of our maps, but I have pot seen it on many of them. It is indicated, though roughly, upon Case’s large map of the United States and upon a large map published by the Government and issued by the Land Office. I observe it also in “Warren’s School Geographies.”