Border Lines For Project In Maryland
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Maryland – U.S. state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia.
The Calvert family, which controlled Maryland, and the Penn family, which controlled Pennsylvania, decided in 1750 to engage two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to establish a boundary. They surveyed what became known as the Mason–Dixon Line, which became the boundary between the two colonies.
Maryland does not sit on any tectonic plate boundary as California, Washington and Alaska do. The closest tectonic plate boundary is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean about halfway to England. Our earthquakes are located on old fault zones created hundreds of millions of years ago when our continent was forming.
Maryland is bounded on its north by Pennsylvania, on its north and east by Delaware, on its east by the Atlantic Ocean, and on its south and west, across the Potomac River, by West Virginia and Virginia.
The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project proposes to construct a high-voltage electricity transmission line across approximately 70 miles of land, cutting through Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick Counties.
Maryland State has a total land area of 12,407 square miles which is occupied by approximately six million Marylanders. The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in America, dominates the eastern side of Maryland. Maryland borders four states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Maryland was home to the first railroad, the first dental school and the first umbrella factory. And Maryland inventors gave us the gas light, the linotype machine and the refrigerator.
Maryland has been called "America in Miniature" because so much is packed into its 10,460 square miles of land and water. You can find just about any kind of natural feature here, except a desert. That's because water is almost everywhere in Maryland.
Maryland – U.S. state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.