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The other day I was looking at a county map near my home in NE Georgia. I noticed that there is a point where 4 counties meet - Hall, Jackson, Gwinnett, and Barrow (see screenshot). enter image description here

This made me wonder if there are any locations in the U.S. where 5 or more counties meet at a single geographic point? If so, where?

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    interesting that the point of Jackson, Barrow & Gwinnett is tangential to the edge of Hall, and that Hall doesn't have a point there.
    – FreeMan
    Commented May 6, 2019 at 19:45
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    There's a near quintipoint in Texas.
    – Rob
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 3:13
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's a geography trivia question that has nothing to do with travelling.
    – David Richerby
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 11:21
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    @Will By that reasoning, any question about any possible place on earth is a travel question. You don't make a travel question just by adding "And can I travel there?" onto the end of it: that's just boat programming. (Especially when the original question says nothing about travelling and "Can I travel there?" only gets added once somebody says it's off-topic.)
    – David Richerby
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 12:13
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    If you're curious about other countries, the best multipoint seems to be on Sicily
    – Nathan
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 14:09

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Lake Okeechobee in Florida is the best known location in the US where this happens, according to the Twelve Mile Circle website:

Looking at Lake Okeechobee on this Microsoft Encarta map clearly shows a point where five different Florida counties come together at a single point: Glades; Hendry; Palm Beach, Martin and Okeechobee. There is no other spot in the United States where this occurs.

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The blog states that this is the only location in the US; as far as we can tell that's correct, even though Ron Maupin found another near-occurrence in Texas.

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    "Microsoft Encarta" now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
    – User1000547
    Commented May 6, 2019 at 20:09
  • The only point within a single state. But can this happen at the edge/corner of multiple states?
    – smci
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 2:48
  • "Lake Okeechobee in Florida is the only location in the US where this happens" That is untrue. See my answer.
    – Ron Maupin
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 4:18
  • @RonMaupin Nearly is nearly enough.
    – Deduplicator
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 15:17
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    @RonMaupin's answer is incorrect: the five counties there come very close but don't all meet at a point.
    – David Richerby
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 17:46
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There are five counties in Florida that meet in the middle of Lake Okeechobee.

I haven't been able to find more, but the Wikipedia article implies that there may be more.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadripoint#Multipoints_of_greater_numerical_complexity

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    This article from Condé Nast states that the Florida "quintipoint" is the only one in the United States. (Note that the Wikipedia article only implies that there are others elsewhere in the world, not necessarily in the USA.)
    – Michael Seifert
    Commented May 6, 2019 at 15:26
  • @MichaelSeifert, that is not true. See my answer.
    – Ron Maupin
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 4:20
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In Texas, there is a point where five counties meet:

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The (roughly) triangle shaped county is Delta County. The county to the north is Lamar County. The county to the south is Hopkins county. The two counties to the east are Red River County (NE) and Franklin County (SE).

A better picture:

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    If you search this site (originally linked in a comment on the question) for "near-quintipoint", you'll find it claims this Texas situation is not an actual quintipoint. Can you address this?
    – Angew is no longer proud of SO
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 7:56
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    Relevant image from the web site linked by the previous comment.
    – ikegami
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 8:28
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    Texas DOT map (pdf) showing the "near-quintipoint" hook at the eastern end of Delta county, albeit not as exaggerated as with the Wolfram-generated maps.
    – user4556274
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 9:34
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    @Angew, if you ever visit there, you will find the point where the five counties meet, and if you ever go fishing there, you will have game wardens from the five different counties checking your fishing license.
    – Ron Maupin
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 12:57
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    @RonMaupin The DOT map clearly shows that there is no point where the five counties meet. In particular, the borders of Lamar and Franklin Counties do not meet anywhere. Wikipedia's pages on the two counties also don't list them among "adjacent counties" (Lamar, Franklin).
    – David Richerby
    Commented May 7, 2019 at 17:37

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