100th meridian west

100th meridian west

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==United States==
==United States==
[[File:100th meridian US.svg|thumb|left|Part of the border between [[Texas]] and [[Oklahoma]] is defined by the 100th meridian west]]
[[File:100th meridian US.svg|thumb|left|Part of the state line between [[Texas]] and [[Oklahoma]] is defined by the 100th meridian west]]
[[File:Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad on the 100th meridian approximately 250 miles west of Omaha, Nebr. Terr. The tra - NARA - 530892.jpg|thumb|350px|Directors of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] gather on the meridian in the [[Nebraska Territory]] at what is now [[Cozad, Nebraska]], in 1866]]
[[File:Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad on the 100th meridian approximately 250 miles west of Omaha, Nebr. Terr. The tra - NARA - 530892.jpg|thumb|350px|Directors of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] gather on the meridian in the [[Nebraska Territory]] at what is now [[Cozad, Nebraska]], in 1866]]
[[File:Sign at the 100th meridian on U.S. Highway 30 in Cozad, Nebraska.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sign marking the 100th meridian in [[Cozad, Nebraska]]; photograph taken 138 years after the preceding photograph in October 2004]]
[[File:Sign at the 100th meridian on U.S. Highway 30 in Cozad, Nebraska.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sign marking the 100th meridian in [[Cozad, Nebraska]]; photograph taken 138 years after the preceding photograph in October 2004]]