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1 | ![]() | Portland, Oregon ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 45.52 / -122.6819 | Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers (...) |
2 | ![]() | Lewiston, Maine ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 44.0896 / -70.1722 | Lewiston (; officially the City of Lewiston, Maine) is the second largest city in Maine and the most central city in Androscoggin County. The city borders the coastal sideways of the Gulf of Maine and is south of Augusta, the state's capital, and north of Portland, the cultural hub of Maine (...) |
3 | ![]() | Oregon ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1255 Lat/Lng : 43.9358 / -120.575 | Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary along Washington state, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary along Idaho (...) |
4 | ![]() | Portsmouth, New Hampshire ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 43.0757 / -70.7607 | Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is the sole city in the county, but only the fourth-largest municipality,The Rockingham County towns (not cities) of Derry (33,109), Salem (28,776), and Londonderry (24,129) had greater populations according to the (...) |
5 | ![]() | Anchorage, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 61.2183 / -149.8992 | Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage; Dena'ina:) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 298,192 residents in 2016, it is Alaska's most populous city and contains more than 40 percent of the state's total population; among the 50 (...) |
6 | ![]() | Louisville, Kentucky ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 38.2253 / -85.7417 | Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city (...) |
7 | ![]() | Livermore, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 37.6819 / -121.7681 | Livermore (formerly Livermores, Livermore Ranch, and Nottingham) is a city in Alameda County, California, in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 89,648, Livermore is the most populous city in the Tri-Valley (...) |
8 | ![]() | Duluth, Minnesota ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 46.7869 / -92.0982 | Duluth is a major port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Saint Louis County. Duluth has a population of 86,293 and is the 4th largest city in Minnesota. It is the second-largest city on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (...) |
9 | Westbrook, Maine ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 43.7079 / -70.3526 | Westbrook is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland. The population was 17,494 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. (...) | |
10 | New England ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 44.12 / -70.18 | New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast (...) | |
11 | Shinagawa ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 35.6092 / 139.7301 | is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The wards refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The ward is home to ten embassies. , the ward has an estimated population of 380,293, and a population density of 16,510 persons per km². The total area is 22.84 km² (...) | |
12 | Scouting in Maine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 43.9493 / -70.4694 | Scouting in Maine dates back to the creation of the Katahdin Area Council in 1920 and has continued prominently to the present day. (...) | |
13 | Bates College ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 44.1056 / -70.2042 | Bates College, officially known as the President and Trustees of Bates College or simply as Bates , is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. It is equidistant from the state capital, Augusta, to the north, and the cultural hub Portland to the south (...) | |
14 | Cape Air ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 41.6695 / -70.292 | Hyannis Air Service, Inc., operating as Cape Air, is an airline headquartered at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. It operates scheduled passenger services in the Northeast, the Caribbean, Midwest, and Eastern Montana (...) | |
15 | Lewiston, Idaho ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 317 Lat/Lng : 46.4003 / -117.0011 | Lewiston is a city in and the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States, in the state's north central region. It is the second-largest city in the northern Idaho region, behind Coeur d'Alene, and ninth-largest in the state (...) | |
16 | Walmart ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 398 Lat/Lng : 36.3656 / -94.2175 | Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, (...) | |
17 | American Legion ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 222 Lat/Lng : 39.777 / -86.1562 | The American Legion is a U.S. war veterans organization headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is made up of state, U.S. territory, and overseas departments, and these are in turn made up of local posts. The legislative body of The American Legion is a national convention, held annually (...) | |
18 | United States District Court for the District of Maine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 43.6587 / -70.2552 | The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine (in case citations, D. Me.) is the U.S. district court for the state of Maine. The District of Maine was one of the original thirteen district courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, even though Maine was not a separate state from (...) | |
19 | Barton, Vermont ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : 44.7636 / -72.1867 | Barton is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,780 at the 2000 census. The town includes two incorporated villages, Barton and Orleans. Approximately 30% of the town's population lived in the village of Orleans, 27% in the village of Barton, and 43% outside of the (...) | |
20 | Downtown Halifax ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 44.6484 / -63.5733 | Downtown Halifax is the city centre of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Located on the eastern-central portion of the Halifax Peninsula, on Halifax Harbour, it serves as the business, entertainment, and tourism hub of the region. (...) | |
21 | 1964 New York World's Fair ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 40.744 / -73.8444 | The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. , Archdiocese of New York. Retrieved November 5, 2007 (...) | |
22 | United States Forest Service ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 38.8872 / -77.0325 | The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass . Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business (...) | |
23 | State Policy Network ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 38.8937 / -77.0716 | The State Policy Network (SPN) is an American nonprofit organization that functions primarily as an umbrella organization for a consortium of conservative and libertarian think tanks that focus on state-level policy (...) | |
24 | Victoria Bridge (Montreal) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 45.4917 / -73.5291 | The Victoria Bridge , previously known as Victoria Jubilee Bridge, is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert. Opened in 1859, originally as a tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson, the bridge was the first to span the St (...) | |
25 | Second Bank of the United States ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 39.9486 / -75.1487 | The Second Bank of the United States, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank, (July 30, 2013) in the United States during its 20-year charter from February 1816Dangerfield, 1966, pp. 76–77 to January 1836.Hammond, 1947, p (...) | |
26 | Death with Dignity National Center ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 45.5199 / -122.678 | Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC) is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan nonprofit organization, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, that has led the legal defense of and education about Death with Dignity laws throughout the United States for 20 years (...) | |
27 | Charles L. Carpenter ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -9.1861 / 159.895 | Rear Admiral Charles L. Carpenter (July 31, 1902 – February 21, 1992) was a Naval officer, holder of the Navy Cross, Purple Heart and whose career encompassed combat action in Nicaragua. He was involved in all three Theaters of Operations in World War II and naval combat in the Pacific (...) | |
28 | History of Halifax (former city) ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 44.67 / -63.61 | Halifax, Nova Scotia was originally inhabited by the Mi'kmaq. The first European settlers to arrive in the future Halifax region were French, in the early 1600s, establishing the colony of Acadia. The British settled Halifax in 1749, which sparked Father Le Loutre's War.Grenier (2008), pp. 143–149 (...) | |
29 | Oakhurst Dairy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 43.6639 / -70.2739 | Oakhurst Dairy is a company in the dairy industry that sells mostly milk products, as well as juices. It was founded in 1918, and is headquartered in Portland, Maine. (...) | |