Four Corners (United States)

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This article is about the region in the United States. For other uses, see Four Corners (disambiguation).

The Four Corners region is in the red area on this map

The Four Corners is a region in the western United States located near the common border of four states: in clockwise order from the northwest, these are Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. This is the only place where four U.S. states come together at one point. Three of the four state corners are on the Navajo Indian Reservation. The fourth corner, Colorado, is on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation. The Four Corners Monument located there has a $3 per person admission fee.

Four Corners occurs at the coordinates 36°59′56.81532″N, 109°02′42.62019″W according to the U.S. National Geodetic Survey.

Because the Four Corners is part of a high plateau, it is often a center for weather systems, which stabilize on the plateau, then proceed eastward toward the central and mountain states. This weather system creates snow and rainfall on the central part of America.