8 Mile Corner is a monument in the

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dedicated to the tri-point (a place where three states meet) of

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, and

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. This point is also the meeting point for three distinct regions of America – the

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(Colorado), the

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(Kansas), and the

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(Oklahoma). The landmark was a windmill with the three states' abbreviated names on the blades. The

windpump A windpump is a type of windmill which is used for pumping water. Windpumps were used to pump water since at least the 9th century in what is now Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. The use of wind pumps became widespread across the Muslim world an ...

monument was built in 1903. In 1990, satellite images showed the actual meeting place to be several feet away from the monument. A brass plate in the ground marks this. The site is approximately west of

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on mostly unpaved State Line Road"Eight Mile Corner." Kansas Travel & Tourism
at an elevation of 3,692 feet.Clark, Patterson & Denise L
"Cornering America's tri-points: A guide to 65 lonely spots where at least three states converge" (Sept. 17, 2015)
(Accessed Nov. 29, 2021) The view around this site has been described as "starkly beautiful", with

yucca ''Yucca'' is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flo ...

blooms in the spring and

buffalo gourd ''Cucurbita foetidissima'' is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has numerous common names, including: buffalo gourd, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wi ...

in the summer as the most notable flora. Visitors are likely to see

mule deer The mule deer (''Odocoileus hemionus'') is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. Two subspecies of mule deer are grouped into the black-tailed deer. Unlike the related whit ...

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, and burrowing owls. Image:OK-KS-CO_tripoint_windmill_marker.jpg, OK-KS-CO Tripoint - Windmill marker Image:OK-KS-CO_tripoint_road_marker.jpg, OK-KS-CO Tripoint - Road marker - Actual tripoint Image:OK-KS-CO_tripoint_survey_marker.jpg, OK-KS-CO Tripoint - USGS survey marker

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8 mile corner windmill
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