Place your non-coastal city directly on the Pacific Coast Game

[Chimérique]

Place your non-coastal city directly on the Pacific Coast Game

where would your city be using degrees of latitude?

I was curious about where Las Vegas would sit on the coast. Well it would be far above Los Angeles and much further north than one would think. Definitely not in Southern California, but rather far up into the Central Coast of California.

Las Vegas at 36.17 degrees would be
near Lucia, California which is just below Big Sur basically between Monterey and San Luis Obispo, or

1/3 below San Francisco and 2/3 up from Los Angeles.

Next city Denver

[Chimérique]

Next city, Sacramento

Sacramento is only 58 miles from San Pablo/San Francisco Bay, but if it were directly on the coast where would it sit.

Sacramento at 38.58 degrees latitude,

would sit on the Northern California Coast, near Ft. Ross, in northern Sonoma County, thats 90 miles North of San Francisco, and 383 miles North of Los Angeles.

[Chimérique]

Ok, I'll do Denver, where are my geography nerds....

If on the Pacific coast, Denver at 39.74 degrees latitude,

would sit way up in Northern California just above Ft. Bragg, thats 175 miles north of San Francisco, and 538 miles north of Los Angeles.

Ft. Bragg is 85 miles north of Ft. Ross on the NorCal Coast.

Next city, Salt Lake City

[Chimérique]

Back to Vegas,

If on the Pacific Coast, Vegas would sit about 230 miles South of San Francisco, and 290 miles North of Los Angeles, on the Central Coast of California.

[Borntoolate85]

Salt Lake City's latitude at 40.77 degrees N is the same as Rosewood, CA, just south of Eureka.

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Back to Vegas,

If on the Pacific Coast, Vegas would sit about 230 miles South of San Francisco, and 290 miles North of Los Angeles, on the Central Coast of California.

That would be right in the middle of the Big Sur.

Next city: Marietta, GA

[CamThomas]

Originally Posted by Borntoolate85

Salt Lake City's latitude at 40.77 degrees N is the same as Rosewood, CA, just south of Eureka.



That would be right in the middle of the Big Sur.

Next city: Marietta, GA

Murietta, CA

Next city: Louisville

[paytonc]

Louisville, KY = lat 38.189 = McDonald, CA, along Tomales Bay in Marin County west of Petaluma
Marietta, GA = lat 33.948 = LAX Airport

Several of the original East Coast colonies had very vague claims not just to lands west of the Appalachians; Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts claimed that the Crown had given them control of all land west to the Pacific. (Virginia's incredibly shrinking boundaries are illustrated here.) So it would be amusing to see what parts of the West Coast would belong to those states had cession never happened.

Next city: Richmond, VA

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by paytonc

Louisville, KY = lat 38.189 = McDonald, CA, along Tomales Bay in Marin County west of Petaluma
Marietta, GA = lat 33.948 = LAX Airport

Several of the original East Coast colonies had very vague claims not just to lands west of the Appalachians; Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts claimed that the Crown had given them control of all land west to the Pacific. (Virginia's incredibly shrinking boundaries are illustrated here.) So it would be amusing to see what parts of the West Coast would belong to those states had cession never happened.

Next city: Richmond, VA

Interesting about the original colonies!

Richmond, VA at 37.54 degrees latitude would sit

near San Francisco, CA on the Pacific Coast

I find that surprising because Richmond is definitely in the South, Southern states USA, but San Francisco is considered the North, in the Northern California.

Next City: Reno, Nevada

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by Borntoolate85

Salt Lake City's latitude at 40.77 degrees N is the same as Rosewood, CA, just south of Eureka.



That would be right in the middle of the Big Sur.

Next city: Marietta, GA

Ya, Salt Lake City is pretty far north, and it really shows when you see that it would be on the far northern California coast near Eureka, CA.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

Seattle: 47°39' N

A line from Seattle extended due west would land not within any town, but within the Kalaloch resort area in Olympic National Park, slightly north of the Quinault reservation. Parts of South and West Seattle are due east of the Quinault reservation.