The 42nd parallel is not a commonplace line of latitude. It was the northern border of New Spain and thus, today, of California, Nevada, and Utah. It divides New York and Pennsylvania. At Point Pelee ...
The 49th parallel, best known as the line that forms most of the border between the United States and Canada, cuts across ...
A sign north of where the road crosses the Gardner River marks the 45th parallel of latitude. The 45th parallel is an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North ...
The report is dated on page 3: Washington, D.C., August 22, 1854. "Route near the thirty-second parallel. Extract from Report of Lieutenant Colonel Emory, of a military reconnaissance made in 1846 and ...