Tweet
Link - KU.edu Kansas 7th flattest state
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation because the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation because the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
The researchers first gridded the nation into 90-meter cells and categorized each cell as not flat, flat, flatter or flattest. Each state then was measured in terms of percentage flat, flatter and flattest as well as absolute area in each category.
And — guess what? Kansas didn’t even crack the top five U.S. states for flatness.
By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation becuase the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society. Dobson hopes the research will help dispel the myth that Kansas is so formidably flat.
“In 2012, I led the AGS’ Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey,” he said. “One of our questions was, ‘What is the flattest state?’ and we received more than 4,000 responses nationwide. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.”
- See more at: http://news.ku.edu/2014/02/06/resear....fVcVCtvs.dpuf
Comment