The Kentucky Bend // An earthquake caused this unusual border between KY and TN!

[@travis303]

I'm the same way. I enjoyed looking at maps too. I took mental vacations with them, looking at all of the different place names and pretending I was there.

[@chiragmehta8212]

Me too

[@Quitealways]

Neat history. Beautiful area where the sunset is visible all round it for along period of time. John, your furry friends gave you a sweet greeting so you could chuckle.😊

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Haha! I seem to find a lot of them lately 😂😂

[@sueelliott3206]

The dogs were so cute. This video is very interesting because it's a place I had never heard of. Love the deer, as well. Thanks for sharing.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! It was more than I expected!

[@moosefactory133]

One thing I have never been able to find anywhere on the internet is a map overlay showing the original route of the Mississippi River before the Earthquake compared to the current route of the Mississippi after the Earthquake. BTW, great video, thanks.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That would be a very interesting map to find! Thank you - fascinating what happened here!

[@hungarysammy]

Cool place! Love the pups at the end!😁😁

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Haha lots of pups in recent videos. Like someone else said they might think I’m the mailman 😂😂

[@hungarysammy]

Hahaha.....this could be!!🤣 They loved you anyway!

[@pamelacrowe4971]

Hi. Just wanted to tell you I really enjoy your videos. I live in Missouri and have done some traveling around here. Mainly to small counties all over the central and southeast of Missouri. I love the history you tell us about these places. Keep on doing this. Thanks for all you do.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much! It’s been a fun hobby! I’ve loved finding new places in Missouri and hope to get back again soon for more. Thanks for the support!

[@tinman7130]

Most interesting. What a unique place. Thanks for taking us along

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! Cool and interesting place to wander around!

[@travis303]

I'd like to see you visit the Northwest Angle in Minnesota or Point Roberts in Washington. It's basically the international version of the Kentucky bend except they can only be reached, by land anyway, via Canada.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I’ve heard of these and would love to go!!

[@estelleadamski308]

Beautiful sunset. Interesting location. I would NOT want to live there or travel there at night. Looks creepy in a way. So, thx. I do love maps, you have to hold them in ur hands, not look at it on the computer. Whenever I hear of a new place I always get out my Atlas and look it up and circle it.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Yes it’s definitely way out there and could feel creepy if you’re by yourself not from there. I felt totally safe, by the way. Thanks for watching!

[@michellefreiermuth6327]

Beautiful scenery. Sunset was gorgeous. Interesting history.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

💯

[@positively_broad_st3780]

After watching this video now I've got an ear worm of the song 'New Madrid' by Uncle Tupelo. Thanks... (It's a good ear worm, so I ain't complaining...)

[@terriquotskuyva4594]

Wow! I never realized that Kentucky was split like that… Cool … thanks for sharing

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! Yeah it’s kind of unique!

[@j2tharomeone5]

Thanks for the upload. I love oddities like this too. I was on Google Maps, but there was no photos of the road after the dirt road, so it was cool to see how that looked.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Yeah I was checking it out online prior to the trip too - exploring it in person was very interesting!

[@curlyfries5095]

Another interesting video. I had never heard about ‘The Kentucky Bend’ before. Now I need to read more about it! Thanks again for bringing these views of unique parts of the USA to our attention, I truly enjoy them. Safe Travels!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I didn’t know much about it til I was looking at possible places to visit this year. Thanks!

[@pamelaherriford1940]

Absolutely beautiful country!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😊

[@SusanHL]

This video is beautiful! I think I heard about those earthquakes and the shifts in the MS River when I lived in Louisiana - it was either a tour of Nottoway Plantation, or one of the tours in Natchez, MS (or maybe both). Imagine going to bed one night with a river next to your home, and then waking up the next day wondering where it went.

[@brandiewhisenhunt289]

I've never heard of this.. very cool John!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Yeah it’s definitely a unique situation. I found more than I expected!

[@bigjimslade6250]

I think that there is a ferry between Missouri & the Bend or another part of Kentucky nearby. There’s a sign on US 60 between Charleston & Sikeston for the ferry to Kentucky

[@brendacejda7069]

Interesting! Yesterday I watched "The Lost History of the New Medrid Earthquakes," by the Clinton Scool of Public Service, and the speaker spoke of the accounts by Daniel Boone of hunting and killing bears that had fallen into the cracks made by earthquakes! Can you imagine??? I found your video a great compliment to yesterday's video. Also reminds me of the story of the river shifting outside of Weston, MO, which changed the location of part of the town. Such rich stories! Thank you!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

What a coincidence!

[@johnfrank3642]

We have some bins in the Potomac River between Berkeley Springs West Virginia and Paul Paul West Virginia if you Google it it’s pretty much the same way

[@MarkLeach321]

Visited here in Nov ‘19 during a camping trip to Land Between the Lakes. Like you, I was fascinated by the geographic oddity on a map & wanted to see it for myself. Disappointed that unlike TN, my home state of KY did not have a welcome sign at the border line. Wanted to have that pic.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I thought there would be a sign too!

[@lifewithjosef]

The Bend looks like an oxbow. 28 year old Geology class comes in handy! And, I've always loved and read maps. In kindergarten, I made a road map from our house near Oakland CA, to Shasta County CA (my grandparents lived there) as my art project. Even then, a map geek!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That's awesome! Homemade map!

[@RojoOkie]

Cool little friends 🐕

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@ronald9279]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Looking for more.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! I enjoyed it too!

[@zarahofshiloh7537]

Beautiful landscape and just as the sun is setting.

[@bigjimslade6250]

John also the border between Kentucky & Missouri is different than Kentucky’s border with Illinois, Indiana, & Ohio as the line with those 3 states is the highwater mark on the northern side of the Ohio River in 1792 whereas the border with Missouri is the middle of the river. It’s primarily because of Kentucky having been a part of Virginia which had an established border with the Northwest Territory based on an agreement with the federal government while the border with Missouri was established by treaty with Spain before the Louisiana Purchase.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Interesting history! Thanks!

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

I've always loved maps and geography too. Also, I'm from Kentucky and have never seen this part of the state. It is like a different world than where I live in the state, central Kentucky. Thanks for sharing it and showing it off. Even if there's nothing there haha 😄

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! I’m from southern Ohio originally so I spent a lot of time in KY growing up and never heard of it either!

[@carlhunt6891]

Beautiful

[@msdella4253]

I really need to go to Penn’s store… ❤️ the history! Thanks for the info

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Wonderful place to visit!

[@phillipnelson6076]

I was born in Kentucky and spent the first 16 years there. When a sophomore in HS, I did a report on this area using information from the state USDA office.

[@russelldavis4938]

This is the rural version of Carter Lake, Iowa.

[@ronfullerton3162]

I was thinking that also. As a native Iowan, and now a Nebraskan, I found that interesting. An Iowa community cut out of east Omaha! Met a man from there, and he must be a native Iowan because he was as silly as myself. We drove for competing LTL's and stopped at some of the same places. At one stop, someone asked where he lives, and he responded,"From the largest Iowa town west of the Missouri River. I reminded him that it was the only Iowa town west of the Missouri , to which he responded, "That makes it the largest"! Sorry to all who do not understand rural Iowa humor. When you are from the "tall corn state", your humor has to be corny. Another wonderful video, Wiseguy!

[@daviddunn5264]

Nice videography and commentary 👌 kinda a neat little area. Stay safe

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! Yeah not a usual place for me to do a video, but I thought it was interesting!

[@tripresidue]

Grew up near there, 40 years ago high school friends would go for drives there, could get very spooky, especially with fog. #memoryberries

[@MappingL]

I'd love live in Kentucky bend ❤

[@chris2fur401]

I live on the complete other end of Kentucky. Close to West Virginia and Virginia. To say this is more flat than where I live would be an understatement lol. We are right in the Appalachian Mountains

[@travis303]

I have heard of this and I wondered if there was some kind of town inside that piece of Kentucky, but i guess not

[@garyholt8315]

and no horse farms lol

[@novemberecho3807]

How far across is it across the neck of the bend? I wonder if the river would ever straighten that curve or is too far across?

[@rossbryan6102]

NEXT BIG FLOOD MAY CREATE A NEW CHANNEL AND MAKE IT AN ISLAND AND OXBOW LAKE!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Not sure. Do you mean how wide is the river at that point?

[@novemberecho3807]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy the neck of land where it's narrow. It looks like it's not that far across and the river could just cut straight across and make an oxbow lake. That would take out the bend and make like an island?

[@novemberecho3807]

@@rossbryan6102 that's what I was wondering if there was a big enough flood.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

@@novemberecho3807 Gotcha - It was probably a decent distance, but I don't have the expertise to know about a flooding situation. That's interesting though!

[@USStateOfSiberiaGHWBush1992]

I looked at this too. Along with a county of Virginia that looks as if it should have been a part of Maryland. And Delaware's Twelve-Mile Circle border. Parts of Indiana are on Kentucky's side of the Ohio River. Ellis Island being in New York AND in New Jersey, the Northwest Angle in Minnesota that you can only drive to through Canada, same with Point Roberts in Washington, same with Province Point in Vermont except no road because it's so small, a road isn't necessary. Somewhere on the Niagara River, Canada is south of the U.S. border. Hawaii has a ninth island, which isn't too small to live on, but nobody is allowed to live there because it's restricted. The U.S. shares a border with Cuba. At the Dixon Entrance (strait) between Canada's Graham Island and Alaska, the U.S.-Canada border is way at the Alaskan shore, despite the strait being 50 miles wide. So with U.S. shipments to and from Alaskan coastal towns in the region east of the strait, Canada has had many border disputes against the U.S. for U.S. ships 'entering Canadian territory.' It's also ridiculous how Canada can't agree on the border being moved so that the strait would be divided between both Countries. Yet- Canada agreed to move part of the Quebec-Vermont border slightly further north, so that the American military fort, Fort Montgomery, which was mistakenly built on the Canadian side of the border, could basically be moved into the U.S.. And Canada was okay that In the process of moving the border, more Canadian land was moved into the U.S. than needed for the fort to be moved into the U.S.. But Canada refuses to move a border that is entirely overseas at the Dixon Entrance.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[@justnerdystuff]

Good thing you got out of there before darkness hit, what with all 'em pot holes and swamp monsters.

[@rossbryan6102]

DONT FORGET LAMBERTS THROWED ROLLS RESTAURANT WHEN YOU GET UP TO SIKESTON MO!!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I’ve definitely been there! Love it!

[@rossbryan6102]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy ANOTHER GREAT PLACE IS OLYMPIC STEAKHOUSE BELLS TENN ON 412 HWY!!

[@stixstat]

Yes, it used to be Kentucky University until the earthquakes and it became UK.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@loriewaitley664]

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[@nelsonnoname001]

Since the area has so few people, I wonder who's in charge of it? I mean, no city-works (snow, water, road, court), no DMV, and then the post-office is in TN...

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

My guess is that it’s like people who live out in the country. They get their mail from Tennessee. I’m assuming the people who work in Tipton just have to not forget about them haha.

[@rossbryan6102]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy LOL PROBABLY FULL GOVT SERVICES WITH REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY TAX AGENCIES!

[@ronfullerton3162]

Imagine police, core, and ambulance response time.

[@travis303]

More dogs!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂 They’re everywhere!!

[@markcantemail8018]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy Are You a Letter Carrier ?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

@@markcantemail8018 I feel like it haha!

[@ronfullerton3162]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy You will have to start carrying "treat treats"!