Can you name the pairs of states where at least half the boundary consists of a river, lake, or other body of water? by darkgreen_orange

Can you name the pairs of states where at least half the boundary consists of a river, lake, or other body of water?

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Mostly (>95%) Separated By Water
Colorado River
Red River of the North, Bois de Sioux River
Big Sioux River
Missouri River
Missouri River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Mississippi River
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Ohio River
Ohio River
Ohio River
Ohio River
Big Sandy River / Tug Fork
Delaware River
Connecticut River
Block Island Sound

Partially (>50%) Separated by Water
Columbia River
Snake River
Colorado River
Red River
Toledo Bend Resevoir, Sabine River, Sabine Lake
Mississippi River, Pearl River
Savannah River
Chattahoochee River
Lake Superior, Montreal, Brule, and Menominee Rivers, Lake Michigan
Mississippi River, St. Croix River, Lake Superior
Potomac River
Potomac River
Delaware Bay, Delaware River
Hudson River, Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay
Long Island Sound
Lake Champlain

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US States Separated by Water Quiz

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Created Oct 18, 2011 in Geography
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	BombaySapphire:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 19:36 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz! Spell-check, please on Menominee.

	darkgreen_orange:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for catching that! It has been fixed.

	BoomRShine:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 20:01 GMT		1 point
	What about Louisiana and Texas? Most of their border is water - Toledo Bend Resevoir, Sabine River, and Sabine Lake.

	BoomRShine:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 20:33 GMT		1 point
	Also, many (if not most) of the instances of "Completely Separated By Water" are technically not true. This is because the borders were drawn during the former courses of the river. Today, many of the borders that once lay in the middle of a river are now on dry land. Check out the city of Carter Lake, Iowa, for example. It is on the western side of the Missouri River, surrounded by Omaha, Nebraska. Thus, the following are not "Completely Separated By Water": Nebraska and Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, Arkansas and Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. There might be some more instances...

	BoomRShine:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 20:34 GMT		1 point
	California and Arizona are not completely separated by water. Part of the border northeast of Yuma, Arizona is straight lines.

	BoomRShine:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 20:35 GMT		1 point
	Vermont and New Hampshire are not completely separated by water. The border northeast of Stewartstown, New Hampshire is a straight line.

	darkgreen_orange:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		1 point
	Well, this is what happens when you skimp on research. :-p For BoomRShine's satisfaction, the first column has been changed to "Mostly (>95%) Separated by Water". Of course, the 95 number is completely arbitrary, and I'm too lazy to go look and see if it's true in each case. Thank you for all of the corrections. The Texas/Louisiana one was a simple oversight. Changing watercourses of rivers are one thing, but I definitely wouldn't have caught the Vermont/New Hampshire or California/Arizona ones.

	MisterF:	Oct 19th, 2011 at 00:27 GMT		3 points
	I find it hard to believe that through the combination of the Mississippi River, the St. Croix River, and Lake Superior, the Minnesota-Wisconsin border is less than 50% water...

	darkgreen_orange:	Oct 19th, 2011 at 13:13 GMT		1 point
	Another oversight. It has been added, thanks.