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Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include Kettleman City, California, Henderson, Nevada, Hoover Dam, South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nashville, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, High Point, North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and others.
The sixth standard parallel south of Mount Diablo at 35°48′ north, 13.8344 miles south of the 36th parallel, forms a continuous boundary between the California counties of Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo on the north and the counties of San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino on the south. It is sometimes taken as the boundary between Northern California and Southern California, although definitions using the Tehachapi Mountains are also common.
The parallel 36° north approximately forms the southernmost boundary of the Missouri Bootheel with the State of Arkansas.
The 36th parallel passes through Duke University in several places. Its Campus Drive that connects the campuses crosses the parallel several times. The Duke Gardens has a "36th Parallel Club" although the garden itself is just north of the parallel.
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