That for three hundred miles of said road most mountainous and difficult of construction, to wit: one hundred and fifty miles westerly from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and one hundred ...

Nearly a century and a half after explorer John Wesley Powell zeroed in on the 100th meridian west as the dividing line between the humid east and arid west of the United States, researchers say ...

The Hundredth Meridian is a longitudinal line that crosses six states in the Midwest. It is traditionally understood to divide the arid western half of the Great Plains from the more fertile ...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - One person was shot off of West Gate Hills Drive in Meridian, according to Acting Captain Dareall Thompson.

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now believe climate change is ...

The 100th meridian, which bisects the Great Plains and separates the arid western states from the moister eastern states, may be shifting as a result of climate change, new studies say.

The incoming 8th grader at St. Luke Catholic School set a record for youngest person to hit a hole-in-one at Meridian Hills in its 101-year history.

Andrew Moore delivers striking vistas of the near West and portraits of its stoic inhabitants in Dirt Meridian, one of our Best Fall Photobooks of 2015. In it, Moore surveys the regions along the ...

THE PUBLIC SURVEYS.; FEATURES OF THE EXPLORATIONS WEST OF THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN. Give this articleGive this articleGive this article Jan. 22, 1877 The New York Times Archives See the article in ...

The line was the 100th Meridian, one hundred degrees of longitude west of Greenwich. In 1879, U.S. Geological Survey head John Wesley Powell established the boundary in a report of the West that ...