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Friday, April 02, 2010

The USA has ONLY 50 states!!!


States by Order of Entry into Union

State

Entered
Union

Year
settled

1. Delaware

Dec. 7, 1787

1638

2. Pennsylvania

Dec. 12, 1787

1682

3. New Jersey

Dec. 18, 1787

1660

4. Georgia

Jan. 2, 1788

1733

5. Connecticut

Jan. 9, 1788

1634

6. Massachusetts

Feb. 6, 1788

1620

7. Maryland

Apr. 28, 1788

1634

8. South Carolina

May 23, 1788

1670

9. New Hampshire

June 21, 1788

1623

10. Virginia

June 25, 1788

1607

11. New York

July 26, 1788

1614

12. North Carolina

Nov. 21, 1789

1660

13. Rhode Island

May 29, 1790

1636

14. Vermont

Mar. 4, 1791

1724

15. Kentucky

June 1, 1792

1774

16. Tennessee

June 1, 1796

1769

17. Ohio

Mar. 1, 1803

1788

18. Louisiana

Apr. 30, 1812

1699

19. Indiana

Dec. 11, 1816

1733

20. Mississippi

Dec. 10, 1817

1699

21. Illinois

Dec. 3, 1818

1720

22. Alabama

Dec. 14, 1819

1702

23. Maine

Mar. 15, 1820

1624

24. Missouri

Aug. 10, 1821

1735

25. Arkansas

June 15, 1836

1686

26. Michigan

Jan. 26, 1837

1668

27. Florida

Mar. 3, 1845

1565

28. Texas

Dec. 29, 1845

1682

29. Iowa

Dec. 28, 1846

1788

30. Wisconsin

May 29, 1848

1766

31. California

Sept. 9, 1850

1769

32. Minnesota

May 11, 1858

1805

33. Oregon

Feb. 14, 1859

1811

34. Kansas

Jan. 29, 1861

1727

35. West Virginia

June 20, 1863

1727

36. Nevada

Oct. 31, 1864

1849

37. Nebraska

Mar. 1, 1867

1823

38. Colorado

Aug. 1, 1876

1858

39. North Dakota

Nov. 2, 1889

1812

40. South Dakota

Nov. 2, 1889

1859

41. Montana

Nov. 8, 1889

1809

42. Washington

Nov. 11, 1889

1811

43. Idaho

July 3, 1890

1842

44. Wyoming

July 10, 1890

1834

45. Utah

Jan. 4, 1896

1847

46. Oklahoma

Nov. 16, 1907

1889

47. New Mexico

Jan. 6, 1912

1610

48. Arizona

Feb. 14, 1912

1776

49. Alaska

Jan. 3, 1959

1784

50. Hawaii

Aug. 21, 1959

1820

Source: Compiled from various sources by the editors.


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