Water Tripoints
Twenty-seven tripoints are under water:
| State 1 | State 2 | State 3 | Water | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Mississippi | Tennessee | Tennessee River | |
| Arizona | California | Nevada | Colorado River | |
| Arkansas | Mississippi | Tennessee | Mississippi River | Memphis, Tennessee metro area. |
| Arkansas | Missouri | Tennessee | Mississippi River | |
| Connecticut | New York | Rhode Island | Long Island Sound | The part of New York that is in this tri-state area is Fishers Island. It is the New London, Connecticut metro area. |
| Delaware | New Jersey | Pennsylvania | Delaware River | Philadelphia metro area, at the east end of the Twelve-Mile Circle. |
| Georgia | North Carolina | South Carolina | Chatooga River | Located in river very near marker on dry land. |
| Idaho | Oregon | Washington | Snake River | |
| Illinois | Indiana | Kentucky | Wabash River and Ohio River | Evansville, Indiana metro area. See Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky Tri-State Area. |
| Illinois | Indiana | Michigan | Lake Michigan | Known as either the Indiana Dunes or the Michigan Dunes Area |
| Illinois | Iowa | Wisconsin | Mississippi River | Dubuque, Iowa metro area. |
| Illinois | Kentucky | Missouri | Mississippi River and Ohio River | Little Egypt region popularly labeled as a tri-state area with St. Louis, Missouri, Carbondale, Illinois metro area, and Paducah, Kentucky being its nuclei. |
| Illinois | Michigan | Wisconsin | Lake Michigan | |
| Indiana | Kentucky | Ohio | Ohio River | Cincinnati, Ohio metro area. The tripoint is near, but not precisely at, the confluence with the Great Miami River. |
| Iowa | Illinois | Missouri | Mississippi River and Des Moines River | Border with Lee County, Iowa |
| Iowa | Minnesota | Wisconsin | Mississippi River | La Crosse, Wisconsin metro area. |
| Iowa | Missouri | Nebraska | Missouri River | |
| Iowa | Nebraska | South Dakota | Big Sioux River and Missouri River | Sioux City, Iowa metro area. |
| Kansas | Missouri | Nebraska | Missouri River | |
| Kentucky | Missouri | Tennessee | Mississippi River | Three separate tripoints, due to meanders of the river (though probably only a single tri-state area surrounding them all). See also Kentucky Bend. |
| Kentucky | Ohio | West Virginia | Big Sandy River and Ohio River | Huntington (W.V.)-Ashland (Ky.)-Ironton (Oh.) Tri-State region. |
| Maryland | Virginia | West Virginia | Potomac River | Unmarked, at low water line, and almost always submerged. |
| Michigan | Minnesota | Wisconsin | Lake Superior | |
| Minnesota | North Dakota | South Dakota | Bois de Sioux River | Not directly marked and most probably within river. |
| Ohio | Pennsylvania | West Virginia | Ohio River | Technically the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey, although the actual monument is 1,112 feet north of the tripoint due to the tripoint's current location under water; Pittsburgh Tri-State. |
Read more about this topic: Tri-state Area
Famous quotes containing the word water:
“I’d take off all my clothes
& cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff
into the terrible water & walk forever
under it out toward the island.”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)