Geographic center of the US is less meaningful than the "Mean center of
the United States population" as you can find in this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population
In 1790-1800 it was in Maryland
1810 Virginia
1820-1850 West Virginia
1860-1870 Ohio
1880 Kentucky
1890-1940 Indiana
1950-1970 Illinois
1980 through 2014, Missouri
The population center moved almost straight west to Indiana and then
starting curving south due to the population slowly moving south and west.
The current center, Plato, MO is 123 miles and 2 hours drive time SW of
Purina Farms. In many years the center might reach the Tulsa area, but
not in our lifetimes. That means St. Louis is till the closest major
city to the population center of the US.
NYC to Purina is 991 miles and 14.5 hours of drive time
LA to Purina 1790 miles and 24 hours drive time
The Midwest location is of course partial to the Midwest people and to a
lesser degree, those in the east.
Having supported marketing for many years, Las Vegas was always popular
due to cheaper airfares and lots of hotels. Don't know about now, but
Las Vegas was consistently the cheapest airfare. Don't know about planes
that can accommodate dog crates.
On 7/22/2015 11:34 AM, Suzanne Jambe wrote:
With regard to geography only, and without comment on the pros and cons of rotating or keeping the national in one spot...I did look this up. St. Louis is approximately 529 miles (7 hours-ish by car) east of the center of the lower 48 United States (which is in Lebanon, Kansas)...so that's pretty close to a full day's drive east of center.
Suzanne Jambe
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