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OUR 50 STATES
By Jules

ALASKA

STATEHOOD: January 3,1959
PURCHASED FROM RUSSIA BY U.S.:1867
CAPITAL: Juneau
LARGEST CITY: Anchorage
CONSTITUTION: 49th State
STATES POPULATION:609,311
AREA:656,424 sq. mi.
MOTTO:North To The Future
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE: Seafood, nursery stock, vegetables, dairy products, livestock.
INDUSTRY: Petroleum and natural gas, gold and other mining, food processing, lumber and wood products,
tourism.
FLAG:The blue field is for the sky and the forget-me-not, the state flower. The North Star is for the future of
the state of Alaska -- the most northerly of the Union. The dipper represents a Great Bear-symbolizing strength.
COASTLINE:6640 mi.
SHORELINE 33,904mi.
GEOLOGY:Land area 570,833 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:60 miles northwest of Mount McKinley
HIGHEST POINT:Mt. McKinley; 20,320 feet
LARGEST GLACIER: Bering Glacier complex, 2,250 square miles, which includes the Bagley Icefield.
LOWEST POINT: Pacific Coast Sea level
INLAND WATER: 17,501 sq.mi.
NICKNAMES:Last Frontier - Great Land - Land of the Midnight Sun
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME: Based on Eskimo word "Alakshak"meaning "great lands" or "peninsula"
TOPOGRAPHY: Pacific and Arctic mountain systems, central plateau and Arctic Slope.
FLOWER: Forget Me Not (myosotis alpestris)
BIRD: Willow Ptarmigan
TREE: Sitka spruce sitchensis

ALABAMA

STATEHOOD:December 14, 1819
CAPITAL:Montgomery
LARGEST CITY:Birmingham
CONSTITUTION:22nd State
STATES POPULATION:4,319,154
AREA:52,423 sq.mi.
BORDER STATES:Florida - Georgia - Mississippi - Tennessee
MOTTO:Audemus jura nostra defendere "We Dare Defend Our Rights"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Poultry and eggs, cattle, nursery stock, peanuts, cotton, vegetables, milk, soybeans.
INDUSTRY:Paper, lumber and wood products, mining, rubber and plastic products, transportation equipment,
apparel.
FLAG:Crimson Saint Andrew's cross on a white field, patterned after the Confederate Battle Flag, and adopted
in 1895. The bars forming the cross must not be less than six inches broad and must extend diagonally across
the flag from side to side.
COASTLINE:53 mi.
SHORELINE:607mi.
GEOLOGY:Land Area: 50,766 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Chilton, 12miles southwest of Clanton.
HIGHEST POINT:Cheaha Mountain; 2407 feet.
LOWEST POINT:Gulf of Mexico; Sea level
INLAND WATER:938 sq.mi.
NICKNAMES:Heart of Dixie - Cotton State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Means "tribal town" in Creek Indian language.
TOPOGRAPHY:Coastal Plains, hills, broken terrain
FLOWER:Camellia
BIRD:Yellowhammer
TREE:Southern Pine (pinus palustris)

ARIZONA

STATEHOOD: February 14, 1912
CAPITAL: Phoenix
LARGEST CITY:Phoenix
CONSTITUTION:48th State
STATES POPULATION:4,554,966
AREA:114,006 sq. mi.
BORDER STATES:California - Colorado - Nevada - New Mexico - Utah
MOTTO:Ditat Deus "God enriches"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Cattle, cotton, dairy products, lettuce, nursery stock, hay.
INDUSTRY:Copper and other mining, electric equipment, transportation equipment, machinery, printing and
publishing, food processing, electronics, tourism.
FLAG:The 13 rays of red and gold on the top half of the flag represent both the 13 original colonies of the Union,
and the rays of the Western setting sun. Red and gold were also the colors carried by Coronado's Spanish
expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540. The bottom half of the flag has the same Liberty blue
as the United States flag. Since Arizona was the largest producer of copper in the nation a copper star was
placed in the flag's center.
GEOLOGY:113,510 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Yavapai, 55 miles eastsouth east of Prescott
HIGHEST POINT: Humphreys Peak; 12,633 feet
LOWEST POINT: Colorado River; 70 feet
INLAND WATER:364 sq.mi.
NICKNAME:Grand Canyon State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Spanish interpretation of "arizuma," an Aztec Indian word meaning "silver-bearing."
Also based on Pima Indian word "arizonac" for "little spring place."
FLOWER: Saguaro cactus blossom carnegiea gigantea
BIRD: Cactus Wren
TREE: Palo verde cercidium

ARKANSAS

STATEHOOD:June 15, 1836
CAPITAL:Little Rock
LARGEST CITY:Little Rock
CONSTITUTION:25th State
STATES POPULATION:2,522,819
AREA:53,182 sq. mi.
BORDER STATES:Louisiana - Mississippi - Missouri - Oklahoma - Tennessee - Texas
MOTTO:Regnat populus "The people rule"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE: Poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, milk.
INDUSTRY:Food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine,
vanadium.
FLAG:A diamond on a red field represents the only place in North America where diamonds have been discovered
and mined. The twenty-five white stars around the diamond mean that Arkansas was the twenty-fifth state to join
the Union. The top of four stars in the center represents that Arkansas was a member of the Confederate States
during the Civil War. The other three stars represent Spain, France and the United States, countries that had
earlier ruled the land that includes Arkansas.
GEOLOGY: 52,082 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Pulaski, 12 miles northwest of Little Rock
HIGHEST POINT:Magazine Mtn; 2753 feet
LOWEST POINT: Ouachita River; 55 feet
INLAND WATER:1109 sq.mi.
NICKNAMES:The Natural State - Land of Opportunity - Wonder State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:French interpretation of a Sioux word "acansa," meaning "downstream place."
PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE:William Jefferson Clinton, 1993 - Present
FLOWER:Apple blossom
BIRD: Mockingbird
TREE: Pine pinus

CALIFORNIA

STATEHOOD:September 9, 1850
CAPITAL:Sacramento
LARGEST CITY:Los Angeles
CONSTITUTION:31st State
STATES POPULATION:32,268,301
AREA:163,707 sq.mi.
BORDER STATES:Arizona - Nevada - Oregon
MOTTO:Eureka "I have found it"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Vegetables, fruits and nuts, dairy products, cattle, nursery stock, grapes.
INDUSTRY:Electronic components and equipment, aerospace, film production, food processing, petroleum
computers and computer software, tourism.
FLAG:Historic Bear Flag raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, by a group of American settlers in revolt against
Mexican rule. The flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the
lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, "California Republic"
was placed beneath the star and bear. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.
COASTLINE:840 mi.
SHORELINE:3,427mi.
GEOLOGY:156,297 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:38 miles east of Madera
HIGHEST POINT:14,494 feet Mt. Whitney
LOWEST POINT:Death Valley; 282 feet below sea level
INLAND WATER:2674 sq.mi.
NICKNAME:Golden State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Named by Spanish after Califia, a mythical paradise in a Spanish romance written by
Montalvo in 1510
PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE:Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
TOPOGRAPHY:Long mountainous coastline, central valley, Sierra Nevada on the east, southern desert basins,
rugged mountains in the north.
FLOWER:Golden Poppy eschscholtzia californica
BIRD:California Valley Quail
TREE:California redwood sequoia sempervirens

COLORADO

STATEHOOD:August 1, 1876
CAPITAL:Denver
LARGEST CITY:Denver
CONSTITUTION:38th State
STATES POPULATION:3,892,644
AREA:104,100 sq.mi.
BORDER STATES:Arizona - Kansas - Nebraska - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Utah - Wyoming
MOTTO:Nil sine Numine "Nothing without Providence"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Cattle, wheat, dairy products, corn, hay.
INDUSTRY:Scientific instruments, food processing, transportation equipment, machinery, chemical products,
gold and other mining, tourism.
FLAG:The flag consists of three alternate stripes of equal width and at right angles to the staff, the two outer stripes
total length to be blue of the same color as in the blue field of the national flag
and the middle stripe to be white,
the proportion of the flag being a width of two-thirds of its length. At a distance from the staff end of the flag of one
fifth of the total length of the flag there is a circular red C, of the same color as the red in the national flag of the
United States. The diameter of the letter is two-thirds of the width of the flag. The inner line of the opening of the
letter C is three-fourths of the width of its body or bar, and the outer line of the opening is double the length of the
inner line thereof. Completely filling the open space inside the letter C is a golden disk, attached to the flag
is a cord of gold and silver, intertwined, with tassels, one of gold and one of silver.
GEOLOGY:Land Area; 103,598 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Park, 30 miles northwest of Pike's Peak
HIGHEST POINT:Mt. Elbert; 14,433 feet
LOWEST POINT:Arkansas River; 3350 feet
INLAND WATER:496 sq.mi.
NICKNAME: Centennial State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Taken from the Spanish for the "color red" and was applied to the Colorado River.
TOPOGRAPHY:Eastern dry high plains; hilly to mountainous central plateau; western Rocky Mountains of high
ranges alternating with broad valleys and deep narrow canyons.
FLOWER:White and Lavender Columbine aquilegia caerules
BIRD:Lark Bunting
TREE:Colorado Blue Spruce picea pungens

CONNECTICUT

STATEHOOD:January 9, 1788
CAPITAL:Hartford
LARGEST CITY:Bridgeport
CONSTITUTION:5th State
STATES POPULATION:3,269,858
AREA:5,544 sq. mi.
BORDER STATES:Massachusetts - New York - Rhode Island
MOTTO:Qui transtulit sustinet "He who transplanted still sustains"
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Nursery stock, eggs, dairy products, cattle.
INDUSTRY:Transportation equipment, machinery, electric equipment, fabricated metal chemical products,
scientific instruments.
FLAG:On a field of azure blue is an ornamental white shield with three grapevines, each bearing three
bunches of purple grapes. The states motto "He who Transplanted Sustains Us" is displayed on a white ribbon.
The vines stand for the first settlements of English people who began to move from Massachusetts in the 1630's.
These settlements were thought of as grapevines that had been transplanted.
SHORELINE: 618mi.
GEOLOGY:4,872 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Hartford, at East Berlin
HIGHEST POINT:Mt. Frissell (So. slope); 2380 feet
LOWEST POINT:Long Island Sound sea level
INLAND WATER:147 sq.mi.
NICKNAME:Constitution State - Provision State - Nutmeg State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Based on Mohican and Algonquin Indian words for a "place beside a long river".
TOPOGRAPHY:Western upland, the Berkshires, in the Northwest; narrrow central lowlands; hilly eastern upland.
FLOWER:Mountain laurel kalmia latifolia
BIRD:Robin
TREE:White Oak quercus alba

DELAWARE

STATEHOOD: December 7, 1787
CAPITAL CITY: Dover
AREA: 2,489 sq. mi.
BIRD: Blue Hen Chicken
BORDER STATES: Maryland - New Jersey - Pennsylvania
COASTLINE: 28 mi.
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE: Poultry, nursery stock, soybeans, dairy products, corn.
INDUSTRY: Chemical products, food processing, paper products, rubber and plastic products, scientific instruments,
printing and publishing.
FLAG:Adopted on July 24, 1913, the state flag has a background of colonial blue surrounding a diamond of
buff color in which the coat of arms of the state of
Delaware is placed. Below the diamond are the words "December 7, 1787,"
indicating the day on which Delaware was the first state to ratify the federal Constitution. Because of this action,
Delaware became the first state in the Union, and is, therefore, accorded the first position in such national events as
presidential inaugurations. According to members of the original commission established to
design the flag, the shades of buff and colonial blue represent those of the uniform of General George Washington
as shown on a specific plate from an official U.S. Army publication.
FLOWER:Peach Blossom
GEOLOGY:Land Area; 1,933 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Kent, 11 miles south of Dover
HIGHEST POINT:Ebright Azimuth; 442 feet
INLAND WATER:79 sq.mi.
LOWEST POINT:Atlantic coast; Sea level
MOTTO:Liberty and Independence
NICKNAMES:First State - Diamond State
ORIGIN OF STATE'S NAME:Named after an early Virginia governor, Lord De La Warr
POPULATION:731,581
SHORELINE:381mi.
TREE:American Holly ilex opaca

FLORIDA

STATEHOOD:March 3, 1845
CAPITAL:Tallahassee
LARGEST CITY:Jacksonville
CONSTITUTION:27th State
STATES POPULATION:14,653,945
AREA:65,758 sq. mi.
BORDER STATES:Alabama - Georgia
MOTTO:In God We Trust
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Citrus, vegetables, nursery stock, cattle, sugarcane, dairy products.
INDUSTRY:Tourism, electric equipment, food processing, printing and publishing, transportation
equipment, machinery.
FLAG:On a white field emblazoned with a Confederacy red X and the state seal, Florida's flag represents the
land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers and lakes. The seal features a brilliant sun, a cabbage palmetto tree,
a steamboat sailing and a Native American Seminole woman scattering flowers.
SHORELINE:8,426mi.
COASTLINE:1350 mi.
GEOLOGY:Land Area; 54,157 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Hernando, 12 miles northnorthwest of Brooksville
HIGHEST POINT:Britton Hill; 345 feet
LOWEST POINT:Atlantic & Gulf coasts; Sea level
INLAND WATER:4683 sq.mi.
NICKNAMES:Sunshine State - Peninsula State
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Named on Easter 1513 by Ponce de Leon for Pascua Florida, "Flowery"
TOPOGRAPHY:Land is mostly flat with rolling high in northwest.
FLOWER:Orange blossom citrus sinensis
BIRD:Mockingbird
TREE:Sabal Palmetto sabal palmetto

GEORGIA

STATEHOOD:January 2, 1788
CAPITAL:Atlanta
LARGEST CITY:Atlanta
CONSTITUTION:4th State
STATES POPULATION:7,486,242
AREA:59,441 sq. mi.
BORDER STATES:Alabama - Florida - North Carolina - South Carolina - Tennessee
MOTTO:Wisdom, justice, and moderation
ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURE:Poultry and eggs, peanuts, cattle, hogs, dairy products, vegetables.
INDUSTRY:Textiles and apparel, transportation equipment, food processing, paper products, chemical products,
electric equipment, tourism.
FLAG:Having two fields, one of deep blue and the other dark red, the Georgia flag showcases the Battle Flag
of the Confederacy and the state seal. On the state seal is the year 1776, the date of the Declaration of
Independence. The three pillars stand for the three branches of government Legislative, Executive and the Courts.
The arch above the pillars stands for the constitution.
A ribbon expresses the ideals of the constitution "wisdom", "justice" and "moderation".
SHORELINE:2,344 mi.
COASTLINE:100 mi.
GEOLOGY:Land Area; 58,060 sq. mi.
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER:Twiggs, 18 miles southeast of Macon
HIGHEST POINT:4784 feet, Brasstown Bald
LOWEST POINT:Alantic coast; Sea level
INLAND WATER:1,011 sq.mi.
NICKNAMES:Peach State - Goober state
ORIGIN OF STATES NAME:Named for King George II of England
PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE:James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
TOPOGRAPHY:Most southerly of the Blue Ridge Mountains cover northeast and north central;
central piedmont extends to the fall line of rivers; coastal plain levels to coastal flatlands.
FLOWER:Cherokee Rose rosa laevigata
BIRD:Brown Thrasher
TREE:Live oak quercus virginiana

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