The Why Axis

The Why Axis

Map: Every waterfall in the lower 48

By all means, chase them

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Christopher Ingraham
Aug 30, 2021
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Washington state has thousands. North Dakota has just one. And Delaware? It doesn’t have any.

We’re talking about America’s roughly 10,000 waterfalls today, thanks to a nifty US Geological Survey database that was recently highlighted in a Reddit post by Malcolm Tunnell. Tunnell tallied up the number of waterfalls by state but I thought it might be cool …

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