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List of tripoints of U.S. states

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ122871834 ↗
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This is a list of all tripoints in which the boundaries of three (and only three) U.S. states converge at a single geographic point. Of the 60 such points, 36 are on dry land and 24 are in water. Of the points in water, 3 are in the Great Lakes and thus have no land nearby. A tripoint occurring in a populated area may also be informally described as a tri-state area.

Land

Water

See also

Four Corners Monument – a quadripoint

References

External links

"The Corner Corner: United States Multi-points". www.bjbsoftware.com.

Clark, Patterson; Lu, Denise (September 17, 2015). "Cornering America's tri-points". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2016.

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