Sunday, May 10, 2026

Geographic Center of the US*

*not including Alaska, Hawaii and US territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam. 

We reached the middle.  Just north of the town of Lebanon, Kansas is a triangular patch of land that marks the geometric centroid of the 48 contiguous United States. 

  

 

 


One way to find a centroid is to cut the shape out of a uniform flat material like plywood, then hang it from two different position and draw a vertical line from each.  The intersection of the two lines is the centroid. (Wikipedia)

 

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