re: #88 Decatur Deb

We’re planning our next post-CV camper trip. A show about touring the middle of the country put us on to the history of the “center” of the Lower 48. In 1918 they determined that point by making an accurate map of the states on uniform cardboard and balancing it on a sharp point. It’s said to be accurate to 20 miles, and has never been officially updated.
en.wikipedia.org

From the article, the wonders of technology.

In an unusual technical glitch, a farmstead northeast of Potwin, Kansas, became the default site of 600 million IP addresses (due to their lack of fine granularity) when the Massachusetts-based digital mapping company MaxMind changed the putative geographic center of the contiguous United States from 39.8333333,−98.585522 to 38.0000,−97.0000.

That’s only a couple hundred miles or so from me.