Lake Tahoe & The State Line

Did you know Lake Tahoe is 3/4 in California & 1/4 in Nevada?
Who would put the state line in the middle of a lake?
In this week’s Tahoe Tuesday video Harmony uses the maps to answer these age old questions. Join her while she takes you on a 104 year journey into the crazy state line of Tahoe.
In this video:
Lake Tahoe
Nevada
California
State Surveys
Maps
Historic maps
Mexican American War
Utah territory
Nevada territory
John C Freemont
Von Schmidt
Verdi
State line
120 degree meridian

[@foxyscomeingnow5307]

Thank You for posting, I really appreciated this knowledge

[@mapadventures]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gerrya4897]

I found this video surprisingly informing and entertaining.

[@mapadventures]

Thank you

[@randyfarnsworth7825]

Lived in Tahoe for 30 years. I never knew any of this! You did a great job. Interesting research! Thank you! Subscribed 👍

[@mapadventures]

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it 💙

[@mountainmover9141]

Love your work

[@mapadventures]

@@mountainmover9141 thank you 😊

[@KathyHeywood]

Brilliant as always Harm, I love your videos. Keep them coming.

[@mapadventures]

Thank you 🤗, I’m going to post a new video about Tahoe every Tuesday for #tahoetuesday

[@OccidentalonPurpose]

Discovered? I'd imagine the people in area for approximately 5,000 to 14,000 years prior to Fremont had noticed a giant lake in the middle of their territory.

[@mapadventures]

Agreed I hate using that word I usually say first explorer to discover. Or first person to map. You can’t discover something the people been living at for over 10,000 years.

[@1lyndaenglish1]

Thank you for saying this for me, Occidentalon. It makes me sad to see people to see people completely ignore and disregard our indigenous people in this way - as if they never existed or counted in any way. It's recently become apparent that approximately half of the people in this country believe that, if you are not English-speaking and white-skinned, you are a non-person.

[@mountainmover9141]

Yeah but they weren't... well...

[@mountainmover9141]

​@1lyndaenglish1 not true, listen closely. I am a citizen of this great land. Very German and Irish. As white and proud as you are. History is history. We come together as one to move forward. Had a very cherished friend in North Dakota, Rally 100% Sioux. He was a man of good character. We conquered this land. We have mostly lived well together. Please stop the racial separation of us all. If your an American Citizen. MLK said in 68' a man's character is how they'll be judged. Get over it please and contribute.

[@gustavocarrillo5103]

The Washoe Indians, discovered Lake Tahoe not John Fremont

[@RR-fg2rl]

I went to Lake Tahoe this past October and as I was driving I saw the casinos upfront but I saw no sign that says welcome to Nevada all he had was casinos I thought that was weird

[@dlagno]

AFAIK they used Mt. Diablo meridian as a reference meridian on survey maps in 19th century and even later. Which raises a question why did they use Greenwich 120th meridian to split Nevada and California instead of some meridian relative to Mt. Diablo?

[@mapadventures]

Great question. After Mexico ceded Alta California to the US there was a fast migration to the new land, which caused a quick need to create states and boundaries. Since the Mt. Diablo meridian is based on the land survey system, they didn’t use it because it was still un surveyed land. To make it easy they just took Freemonts map and chose a meridian that didn’t seem to split geographical features and drew a straight line.

[@torreyintahoe]

It's funny how one house in Verdi is in CA and their neighbor is in NV. One is much more expensive to live in than the other.

[@mapadventures]

So true.

[@jefffisher7632]

We have to share with our younger siblings

[@mapadventures]

♥

[@gregmacklin9758]

Informative and yet anoying at the same time

[@theshizzz]

What's annoying?

[@gregmacklin9758]

@theshizzz the way she dragged the whole presentation out. It's not cute,it's just annoying

[@champ1061]

Allexey von Schmidt sounds like the name of someone's mortal enemy in an old timey movie. "It's you von Schmidt. We meet again."

[@mapadventures]

Hahaha. It totally does !!♥️

[@eno4780]

When the Constitution of a Thousand Drinks ( the California Constitution) was drafted there was considerable disagreement on where to establish the eastern border. Some there wanted it to run the "crest of the Sierras" other had differing views. James Jones, the youngest member of that assembly, proposed that the line run south on the 120 Longitude line to 39 degrees Latitude. The reason he picked 39 degrees was it was the same Latitude as Washington D.C.. This was proposed and accepted in Monterey CA on Oct.11, 1849 then they promptly went across the street for another round. You can get all the story from the article " The Colorful History of the California/Nevada State Boundary:, John P. Wilusz,LS,PE, January and February 2002 editions of " Professional Surveyor" magazine.