A 2013 survey asked Americans which state is flattest. Roughly a third of the respondents suggested
it was Kansas but the flattest state happens to be Florida - easily explained
by its low coastal plains and the early sign of trouble with rising sea
levels.
Nevertheless, Illinois is flatter
than Kansas. Illinois owes its flatness
to the gift of the glaciers. The
glaciers plowed it flat – obliterating every mountain, hill and piece of
topography in their way. And when the
ice eventually melted in their retreat the melting ice sheet left a rich deposit of glacial till and
silt loam that constitutes some of the best farmland in the world.
I’ve taken a pile of road trips in my day and
I always considered Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana and the Dakotas to be flat lands
to cross.
Nope – Illinois beats them
all. Raising a toast to road trips and global warming.
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