Colorado's border deviations

akos_barta:

Key: Yellow = Actual legal border, Blue = Where the border should be, Orange = The deviation

This post is a follow-up to the Wyoming border deviations map I did about a month ago.

Wrote an article about these border deviations here: https://fascinatingmaps.com/colorado-is-not-a-perfect-rectangle

They exist because of surveying errors in the 19th century. Turns out Colorado has 697 sides not four.

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