Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — The Center of the United States. [ARTICLE]

The Center of the United States.

The exact situation of the geographical center of the United States is a surprise to anyone who has not given the subject careful attention. The most eastern point of the United States is Quoddy Head, Maine; the western, Attoo Island, Alaska; the most northern, Point Barrow, Alaska; the most southern is Key West, Fla. The center of the quadrangular figure formed by uniting these four points is looated as the orossing of 55 degrees north latitude and 110 degrees west longitude, about 420 miles north of the northern line of Montana. It is also true of the United States as of Great Britain, that the sun never sets on our territory, for when it Is 6 p. m. on Attoo Island, Alaska, it is 9:86 a. m. of the following day at Eastport, Maine.