Colorado - Kansas - Oklahoma

A fragment of the Sturgis Quadrangle (USGS)

Visited Monday, March 31, 1997, with Valerie Hartung

The Tristate point where Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado touch is located about 8 miles west of Elkhart, Kansas. The state line is on the south side of town, and there is a road west that runs along the Kansas-Oklahoma state line.

As we approached the TriState point about 8 miles west of Elkhart, we could see a windmill-like structure on a small hill to the right of the road, which turned out to have a wrought-iron buffalo on the top, and 4-letter abbreviations for each state, also in wrought-iron, facing out in the appropriate three directions.

The unofficial TriState marker
viewed from the southwest
(from Oklahoma)

We parked and were photographing it when we noticed a metal plate about two feet across, in the road. It had the state lines drawn and state names listed, and appeared to have the true TriState point right at the meeting point of the lines on the plate.

A more official TriState marker
embedded into the dirt road,
installed in 1990 as part of the
effort to re-monment the boundaries of Colorado...

Last updated on June 6 1997

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