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AZ-NV-UT Tri-State Monument in Mesquite, Nevada

Many political boundaries in the western US, as around the world, were drawn along lines of latitude or longitude. This was convenient for politicians looking at maps, but it's much easier to draw a line on the map than to establish that line on the ground—particularly with 19th-century technology.

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