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On September 1, 2005
the Federal Government of the United
States estimated that the total area affected by Hurricane
Katrina was approximately 90,000 square miles. The
area affected included portions of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama. The
following table has been prepared to demonstrate the enormous
scale of this disaster.
Imagine an area larger than
any one of 40
American states totally wiped out. No infrastructure,
no food, no water and no jobs. Please donate to the
American Red Cross, or your favorite relief agency to help
those affected by this disaster.
States larger than 90,000 square miles |
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States less than 90,000 square miles |
State
|
Rank
(total area) |
Land
area |
Water
area |
Total
area |
Alabama |
30 |
50,744.00 |
1,675.01 |
52,419.02 |
Alaska
|
1 |
571,951.26 |
91,316.00 |
663,267.26 |
Arizona
|
6 |
113,634.57 |
363.73 |
113,998.30 |
Arkansas |
29 |
52,068.17 |
1,110.45 |
53,178.62 |
California
|
3 |
155,959.34 |
7,736.23 |
163,695.57 |
Colorado
|
8 |
103,717.53 |
376.04 |
104,093.57 |
Connecticut |
48 |
4,844.80 |
698.53 |
5,543.33 |
Delaware |
49 |
1,953.56 |
535.71 |
2,489.27 |
Dist. of Columbia |
— |
61.4 |
6.94 |
68.34 |
Florida |
22 |
53,926.82 |
11,827.77 |
65,754.59 |
Georgia |
24 |
57,906.14 |
1,518.63 |
59,424.77 |
Hawaii |
43 |
6,422.62 |
4,508.36 |
10,930.98 |
Idaho |
14 |
82,747.21 |
822.87 |
83,570.08 |
Illinois |
25 |
55,583.58 |
2,330.79 |
57,914.38 |
Indiana |
38 |
35,866.90 |
550.83 |
36,417.73 |
Iowa |
26 |
55,869.36 |
402.2 |
56,271.55 |
Kansas |
15 |
81,814.88 |
461.96 |
82,276.84 |
Kentucky |
37 |
39,728.18 |
680.85 |
40,409.02 |
Louisiana |
31 |
43,561.85 |
8,277.85 |
51,839.70 |
Maine |
39 |
30,861.55 |
4,523.10 |
35,384.65 |
Maryland |
42 |
9,773.82 |
2,632.86 |
12,406.68 |
Massachusetts |
44 |
7,840.02 |
2,714.55 |
10,554.57 |
Michigan |
11 |
56,803.82 |
39,912.28 |
96,716.11 |
Minnesota |
12 |
79,610.08 |
7,328.79 |
86,938.87 |
Mississippi |
32 |
46,906.96 |
1,523.24 |
48,430.19 |
Missouri |
21 |
68,885.93 |
818.39 |
69,704.31 |
Montana
|
4 |
145,552.43 |
1,489.96 |
147,042.40 |
Nebraska |
16 |
76,872.41 |
481.31 |
77,353.73 |
Nevada
|
7 |
109,825.99 |
734.71 |
110,560.71 |
New Hampshire |
46 |
8,968.10 |
381.84 |
9,349.94 |
New Jersey |
47 |
7,417.34 |
1,303.96 |
8,721.30 |
New Mexico
|
5 |
121,355.53 |
233.96 |
121,589.48 |
New York |
27 |
47,213.79 |
7,342.22 |
54,556.00 |
North Carolina |
28 |
48,710.88 |
5,107.63 |
53,818.51 |
North Dakota |
19 |
68,975.93 |
1,723.86 |
70,699.79 |
Ohio |
34 |
40,948.38 |
3,876.53 |
44,824.90 |
Oklahoma |
20 |
68,667.06 |
1,231.13 |
69,898.19 |
Oregon
|
9 |
95,996.79 |
2,383.85 |
98,380.64 |
Pennsylvania |
33 |
44,816.61 |
1,238.63 |
46,055.24 |
Rhode Island |
50 |
1,044.93 |
500.12 |
1,545.05 |
South Carolina |
40 |
30,109.47 |
1,910.73 |
32,020.20 |
South Dakota |
17 |
75,884.64 |
1,231.85 |
77,116.49 |
Tennessee |
36 |
41,217.12 |
926.15 |
42,143.27 |
Texas
|
2 |
261,797.12 |
6,783.70 |
268,580.82 |
Utah |
13 |
82,143.65 |
2,755.18 |
84,898.83 |
Vermont |
45 |
9,249.56 |
364.7 |
9,614.26 |
Virginia |
35 |
39,594.07 |
3,180.13 |
42,774.20 |
Washington |
18 |
66,544.06 |
4,755.58 |
71,299.64 |
West Virginia |
41 |
24,077.73 |
152.03 |
24,229.76 |
Wisconsin |
23 |
54,310.10 |
11,187.72 |
65,497.82 |
Wyoming
|
10 |
97,100.40 |
713.16 |
97,813.56 |
1. Dry land and land temporarily
or partially covered by water, such as marshland, swamps,
etc.; streams and canals under one-eighth statute mile wide;
and lakes, reservoirs, and ponds under 40 acres.
2. Permanent inland water surface, such as lakes,
reservoirs, and ponds having an area of 40 acres or more;
streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals one-eighth statute
mile or more in width; deeply indented embayments and
sounds, and other coastal waters behind or sheltered by
headlands or islands separated by less than 1 nautical mile
of water, and islands under 40 acres in area. Excludes areas
of oceans, bays, sounds, etc. lying within U.S. jurisdiction
but not defined as inland water.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau
of the Census.
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