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Louisiana is the only state with a large population of Cajuns, descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700s because they would not pledge allegiance to the King of England.

Capital Baton Rouge

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 4,657,757

Hernando DeSoto, a Spanish explorer, discovered the Mississippi River in 1540. It is the largest river in the United States and is the country’s chief waterway. Its nickname is “Old Man River.”

Capital Jackson

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 2,961,279

Oklahoma has the largest Native American population of any state. Many of the 250,000 American Indians living in Oklahoma are descended from the original 67 tribes who inhabited Indian Territory. Oklahoma is tribal headquarters for 39 tribes.

Capital Oklahoma City

Image Source Landsat 8

Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston harbor marks the site of the first hostilities of the Civil War in April, 1861.

Capital Columbia

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 5,118,425

Number of Pixels 89,542,287

Mount St. Helens in southeast Washington erupted on May 18, 1980. The volcano and 110,000 acres of surrounding land are now part of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.

Capital Olympia

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 7,705,281

Wisconsin has more than 15,000 lakes. It also has 7,446 streams and rivers, which if placed end to end would stretch nearly 27,000 miles–more than enough to circle the globe at the equator.

Capital Madison

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 5,893,718

Wyoming is home to the country’s first official national park–Yellowstone, the country’s first national forest–Shoshone, and the country’s first national monument–Devil’s Tower.

Capital Cheyenne

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 576,851

Denver, the capital of Colorado, is known as the “Mile High City.” The thirteenth step of the capitol building is exactly one mile (5,280 feet) above sea level.

Capital Denver

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 5,773,714

Number of Pixels 299,555,595

Groton, Connecticut is home to the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered ship and the first to reach the North Pole, a feat accomplished in 1958. The Nautilus is on display at the Submarine Force Museum.

Capital Hartford

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 3,605,944

Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined. It is sometimes called the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but it actually has 12,000 lakes, three-fourths of which are four hectares (10 acres) or more in size.

Capital St. Paul

Image Source Landsat 8

Lakes and rivers make up only 0.002 percent of New Mexico’s total surface area–the lowest water-to-land ratio of all fifty states. Most of New Mexico’s lakes are human-made reservoirs.

Capital Santa Fe

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 2,117,522

The first commercial oil well in the United States was drilled by Edwin Drake near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. Pennsylvania produced nearly half of the world’s supply of oil until the Texas oil boom in 1901.

Capital Harrisburg

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 13,002,700

Tennessee has had several nicknames, but the most popular is the “Volunteer State.” The nickname originated during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.

Capital Nashville

Image Source Landsat 8

Graphic copy of a USGS-generated Brazos River inundation map. 

This is a geiger mode lidar image colored by elevation over Cook County, Illinois

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by RGB values from orthophotos

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by elevation

Earth MRI - Western Alaska Range

Dark Hollow Falls - Shenandoah National Park, VA

Figure 3: Zooming in and rotating scene in 3D from figure 2. Points coloer by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

Figure 2: Zooming in to red rectangle A from figure 1. Points colored by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).