Originally Posted by Hondo6

If that's from the "distancesfrom" website, well, I wouldn't trust it.

I saw that one too (with query for "oregon california border") - then I looked at the map available on their website where they indicated the latitude was 43.80+ degrees N. The map showed the location to be just a bit south and east of Eugene, OR, if I recall correctly.

Bottom line: it was way off. Eugene OR is about 150mi north of the CA/OR border.

If you instead query that same site for "california oregon border", you get 37.78+ degrees N for the latitude. That location on their map is some distance due east of Fresno, CA.

What that site appears to be doing is only using the first word in the search string (the first state name listed) and giving you the lat/long they have as a placeholder for the state. Might be the geometric centroid; dunno what they're using to determine it.

Wikipedia and other sources I've seen all give 42 degrees N as the latitude of the CA/OR border. The "distancesfrom" website is the only one I saw that gives 43.8x degrees N - or 36.7x, degrees N, depending on how the query is worded.