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Is Madrid Bend a unique situation in U.S. state geogrpahy, or are their other true exclaves on the winding Mississippi that are completely surrounded by other states?
There are indeed other situations like Madrid Bend along the Mississippi, such a Kaskaskia, Illionois, and several places in Mississippi and Arkansas.
How about a map71.106.97.72 19:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
there used to be a map here, but the image wasn't allowed and so got deleted (at least according to the history)
This is one of only three situtations that I know of in the United States where a part of a state is completely cut off from the rest of the state, i.e., no land connection and no water connection. The other two are Ellis Island and Liberty Island, which are both parts of New York state and New York County, New York. They are both completely surrounded by territory that is part of Jersey City, New Jersey. There are, of course, many instances of land cut off from the rest of the state along the Mississippi and other rivers. In all of these cases though, there is always at least a water connection between the two parts. Most of these places are small in area and unpopulated, so there is usually very little interest in them. Besides Kaskaskia, Illinois, the best known places like this are Carter Lake, Iowa, mostly surrounded by Omaha, Nebraska, and cut off from Iowa by the Missouri River, and Point Roberts, Washington, which is attached to Canada by land, but cut off from the rest of Washington by the Strait of Georgia. Backspace 21:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Another place in a similar situation would be Alburgh, Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain on the Canadian border. Backspace 21:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
