The Centers of the USA Tour

In 2010, the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Institute of Marking and Measuring moved an Exhibit Unit to the Center of the Contiguous Continental USA, in Lebanon Kansas.

Opening reception and ribbon cutting.

After a year at this Center, the Exhibit Unit left to visit other Centers of the USA.

Starting the journey with a stop for new tires.

Numerous curiosities along the way.

The Exhibit Unit in Plato, Missouri, Population Center of the USA (based on the 2010 Census).

Parked next to the new Population Center monument, and open to visitors.

Onward to the next Center.

Stormy weather in South Dakota.

The Exhibit Unit tips over.

On our way again.

At the monument for the Center of the 50 States in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

Then to the surveyed actual Center of the 50 States, north of town.

An abandoned loop road, the site of a long-gone overlook and monument for the Center of the 50 States.

Onward!

Finally the Exhibit Unit returns to Lebanon Kansas, next to the abandoned school.