Colorado's "Four Corners" Clarification: Colorado IS a Corner State

Colorado doesn't have "corner states" — Colorado is one of the Four Corners states.

The Four Corners

The only quadripoint in the US where four states meet at a single point:

1. Arizona (SW)
2. Colorado (NE)
3. New Mexico (SE)
4. Utah (NW)

Location: 36°59'56"N, 109°02'43"W — marked by a monument (rebuilt 1992, 2010) on Navajo Nation / Ute Mountain Ute land.

Colorado's Other Borders

• North: Wyoming (41°N parallel)
• Northeast: Nebraska (41°N, east of 102°03'W)
• East: Kansas (37°N to 41°N)
• South: Oklahoma (37°N, west of 102°03'W) + New Mexico (Four Corners segment)
• West: Utah (109°02'43"W meridian)

Total: 7 neighboring states (WY, NE, KS, OK, NM, UT, AZ).

Why the Confusion?

• "Four Corners" sounds like a region within Colorado
• People forget Colorado is a corner of the quadripoint, not the center of it
• The monument is in the desert — remote from Denver, easy to mentally misplace

Stand on the brass disk at Four Corners Monument: you're in four states at once. Colorado is the northeast one.