Lowest Point in Each State of the USA + Geoid and Vertical Relief 

For the Florida low point, I sure wasn't expecting it to be my former hometown. No wonder I always thought living there was the low point in my life.

Here in Maryland we pronounce it like “pa-to-mic”, not “pato-mac”. The river’s hugely important for the geography of Maryland, Virginia, DC and West Virginia. It’s also a huuuuge river, suuuper wide in parts.

I had absolutely no idea that Alaska had land below sea level. Thanks for teaching me something!

Funny how for every state except California and Alaska, their lowest point is either on a border or a coast

WEST VIRGINIA has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River. It's also the only state located entirely within a mountain range.

I’ve always loved geography. I am lucky enough to have a little son who surprisingly shares the same interest and we enjoy watching your videos together. Thank you.

For Kentucky, technically it should be a bit further west at the southwest corner of the Kentucky Bend. Even if it's exclaved, it still counts!

Would be interesting to do this same video but instead of the tops of lakes/rivers you take the elevations of the bottoms. I was thinking about that with Death Valley. If that area actually got decent amounts of rain that would be a lake. I am betting there are a lot of lake bottoms that are below sea level.

Nice video but have you never heard of the Potomac River? Not pronounced “pot-oh-mack” but “puh-toe-meck” It’s one of the most famous rivers in the U. S. As it originates in West Virginia and runs through Washington, by the landmarks of our nations capitol. It is often referenced. 😮

With so many low points, I'm feeling slightly high here in CT.

The lowest point in Colorado is where the Arkansas river flows into Kansas. The elevation at that place is 3150.

Thank you for this video, very interesting

New Mexico's very high lowest point means no citrus growing for us, unlike neighboring Arizona.

I liked the video, and especially the geoid tiebreaker, but think there was room to talk more about some of the river low points and even Lake Erie, since those offer some insights about broader land slope, and in some cases are counterintuitive (e.g., Missouri having a downslope just a few miles from the Mississippi that feeds a tributary southward to meet up later in Arkansas).

This guy is straight to the point i love it

Wow, Alaska made into the top 3 in both your Highest and Lowest uploads!

Thank you for helping me become formidable on trivia night.

Interesting that the low points are on state boundaries.

I don’t know why I’m surprised you pronounced Belle Fourche correctly but good job

Out of all of these, it took until Alaska for there to be a low point not on a state border or on a gigantic body of water

I thought you had at least a few thousand subs! Keep up the work.

Thanks for the great videos!

your Alabama star was located on the city of Mobile, likely on the Mobile Bay or Mobile river. Grand Bay is about 40 miles south of that.

Just happened upon your video. I liked it ! Quick and to the 'point' (no pun intended). BTW - I am an 'office' land surveyor by trade. Thanks for your posting.

That pronunciation of “Potomac” crushes my soul.

California and Alaska both have the highest and lowest points of the US? Pretty amazing.

134°F in Death Valley. I've been in 129°F in the shade, and that was unbearable because of elevated humidity. We watched our lawn go from green to brown and apparently dead in less than an hour that afternoon. The soil subsurface temperature was over 180°F at 1 inch below the surface. It was impossible to wear black shoes in the sunlight without scalding your feet. We were drinking cold lightly salted water by the pint all day, and taking cold showers every couple of hours. But at 04:00 the next morning, the temperature was 34°F. There is no way that I would want to experience outdoor temperatures of 134° in a desert with limited amounts of drinking water.

Great idea for video. But would've been nice if you listed the elevations.

@geogviz you made an error with utah one beaver dam wash is actually 2180 ft not 2000ft

Thanks for not playing music in the background

Colorado be like: *Can we get much higher?*

4:19 shouldn’t California be the second highest slope, since Death Valley is relatively close to Mount Whitney? (87.5 miles in a straight line, according to google maps, vs about 110 for rainier to the ocean)

Your point for Kentucky was incorrect. There is an exclave of Kentucky to the west that has a point on the Mississippi further downstream. That said, probably very little difference but it is slightly downstream.

great video!

lowest to the highest in the lower 48 is in cal. ....death valley --282 ft. to mount. Whitney + 14505 ft. .......140 miles apart...one hell of a hike!

Probably should've expected nearly every one of these to be on the state border

Dang. You should do this for Canada and Mexico!

Big Stone Lake is very close to the drainage divide between the Gulf of Mexico (via the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers) and Hudson Bay (via the Red River of the North). The divide actually passes through a valley called Traverse Gap (one of few valleys on Earth to have a drainage divide) and in some floods water has actually flowed from one basin to the other. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_Gap

Can you do one for most flat. Is Florida flatter than Kansas?

I’ve heard anecdotally that Iraq has had higher temperatures than the 134 degree record in Death Valley. Not sure if it’s true but this came from people who were serving in the military over there.

Ouachita is pronounced wash-a-taw. It is a Native American word written in French.

What's fun about CA isvthevhohg and low points are near neighbors. If you stand on the top of Whitney withbtheveind at you back,, you're within spitting distance of Death Valley.

Idaho is the one that got me.

I thought there would be some mention of Hurricane Katrina

You counted a location in an Alaska lake as a low point. Doesn't that put the low point for Michigan like 449 feet below sea level in Lake Superior? It being 1050' below the surface and the surface being 601' (as shown by Minnesota). The LOWEST point in Superior is in Canada. Therefore the lowest point in the United States is actually in Michigan and not California. I am missing something here?

I live near the Atlantic coast of South Florida. My living room is 22 ft. above sea level. I expected to be on the list.😂

PotOMatic. It's like an Instapot.

For West Virginia, you said pot-mac river, it's poe-toe-mac.

Why are the Great Lakes missing? Have they dried up?

I live within that star of back bay Biloxi 😂. Shit floods like mad here.

Their policing?

You stand in Death Valley at Badwater Basin and you can see the 11,043 foot Telescope Peak on a clear day. But not as impressive as looking at Mt. Rainier from near sea level.

The Colorado low point is pronounced the a-RIK-a-ree River.

Might want to call up somebody in Colorado and ask them how to pronounce "Arikaree."

How did this guy just pronounce the Potomac River??? 😆 🤣

Maine is ranked #22 for highest and lowest

How is Arizona not the Grand Canyon

All of them at the edge until Vermont joins the chat

Guess which state I’m in (hint: it’s Illinois)

The bottom of Salton Sea is within a few feet of Badwater, interestingly enough.

Incorrect: the real low point for NH is Franklin Pierce

How is your high point any more than 200!?

FWIW No part of the Ohio River is actually in Ohio.

Anyone else call the Potomac, the Pa Tome Ick. Not Po Toe Mac like he did?

Iowa could just dig 2 feet lower and be lower than Nevada lol!

Why aren’t caves included in this?

Still love Alaska

Check your pronunciation of Potomac at 2:16.

LETS GO NUMBA 2

continue point for 4/12/2023 1:49

Patomatic. Anyways I liked the video

You did not just say Potomac like that.

you pronounce Potomac wrong

You said Potomac as Pat- a-mak really? lol.

Umm…it’s pronounced “pa-to-mac”…..not pat-o-mac

"Massachusis" really? Lol

It's pronounced Poe - Tome - ack , not Potmack

Interesting video, but some of your pronunciations are very painful. The Kootenai River in Montana, for example, is pronounced "Koot-en-eye".

POT-a-MAC is egregious. Look up pronunciations.

It’s pronounced Pa-Toe-Mac not Pata-Mac

Please don't use "ambient air temperature." That's wrong. "Ambient" means "free air." So..ambient air temperature is "free air air temperature." The correct way to say this is, of course "ambient temperature." /signed retired Meteorologist (35 years experience)

The biggest low point in the usa right now is the white house

California has both the lowest point & the highest point in the "Continental" United States. Death Valley & Mt. Whitney.

Some of these pronunciations are absolutely cringeworthy. 2:16 - you've never heard the word Pah-TOE-muc used in conjunction with our nation's capital?

Please learn to pronounce Potomac!

You need to seriously work on the proper pronunciation of place names to have ANY credibility. Really.....