36th parallel north

The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 36° north passes through:

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United States

Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include Kettleman City, California, Henderson, Nevada, Hoover Dam, South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nashville, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Durham, North Carolina.

The sixth standard parallel south of Mount Diablo at 35°48' north, 13.8344 miles south of the 36th parallel, forms a continuous boundary between the California counties of
Monterey,
Kings,
Tulare, and
Inyo on the north and the counties of
San Luis Obispo,
Kern, and
San Bernardino on the south. [http://books.google.com/books?id=4M43AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA626 Deering's annotated codes and statutes of California.] It is sometimes taken as the boundary between Northern California and Southern California, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WCMLAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA230 Historical Society of Southern California] although definitions using the Tehachapi Mountains are also common.

The parallel 36° north forms the southernmost boundary of the Missouri Bootheel with the State of Arkansas.

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