That may sound familiar to long-time 12MC readers: we discussed this point previously in an entirely different context. It’s the point where Hudspeth, Jeff Davis and Presidio Counties in Texas all intersect with the Mexican border. Very few people are likely to visit the westernmost extreme of the Central Time Zone. The boundary comes fairly close to the same longitude as it passes through Florida but I think the spot in Tennessee is a tick further east after checking coordinates through trial-and-error.
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It appears to be the eastern extent of Fentress County, Tennessee north of Rugby along the banks of Clear Fork, a tributary of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. I think I found the easternmost extreme of the Central Time Zone. The border inexplicably cuts left just as it approaches Lake Superior’s shoreline and the point appears where Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties hit the lakeshore. The time zone follows the western border of Ontonagon County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The westernmost extreme gets a bit more interesting and considerably more obscure. The actual spot is an otherwise insignificant rock just off the coast but let’s not belabor it. It’s a tourist destination that many people visit and photograph. The easternmost extreme of the Eastern Time Zone is also the easternmost point of the continental United States West Quoddy Head, Maine. I will gladly update this page and provide full credit if anyone finds locations more extreme.Įastern Time Zone West Quoddy Head Light Station I consider these reasonably accurate but “preliminary” because I did not perform exhaustive searches. Now, let’s look a little closer at the eight points individually.
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These points looked rather striking when I placed them in a map. I went through a bit of an exercise to uncover the extreme eastern and western longitudes for each of the time zones in the Lower-48 United States, in Part 1.