Welcome to your ultimate destination for the strange, the overlooked, and the absolutely true stories of American geography and state history.
Most geography websites will give you the population of a state capital, the name of the official state bird, and maybe the year it joined the Union.
We think you deserve better than that.
We built this site because the real world is incredibly interesting, and the standard textbooks usually leave out the best parts.
We are here to dig past the generic trivia and uncover the bizarre, hidden patterns that make every state unique.
Meet Clay Borders
Founder & Chief Document Excavator
“Every state has secrets worth digging up, and most of those secrets are stranger than anything you could make up.”
Clay Borders has spent an embarrassing amount of time reading state legislation, obscure county records, and the kind of geographic trivia that makes people at parties slowly back away.
Nobody is quite sure where Clay is from, which feels entirely appropriate for a guy who spends his life staring at boundary lines.
Deeply passionate about the weird, the overlooked, and the technically-still-legal, Clay believes that history and geography shouldn’t be dry.
Armed with dusty archives, legal briefs, and a relentless curiosity, Clay handles the research so you can walk away with the most fascinating facts on the internet.