4-626: The Wyoming Basin physiographic province is a geographic area through which the Continental Divide of the Americas traverses. The province includes the Washakie Basin and Great Divide Basins , and is demarcated by the following: 42°31′24″N 109°39′09″W / 42.523422°N 109.652504°W / 42.523422; -109.652504 This article about a location in Wyoming
8-560: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . United States physiographic region#Rocky Mountain Section The physiographic regions of the contiguous United States comprise 8 divisions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections. The system dates to Nevin Fenneman 's report Physiographic Divisions of the United States , published in 1916. The map was updated and republished by
12-593: The Association of American Geographers in 1928. The map was adopted by the United States Geological Survey by publication in 1946. The classification hierarchy used in the 1916 publication of the American Association of Geographers was division/province/section/subsection. The use of province in this hierarchy undoubtedly confounded the effort to develop a physiographical map consistent across
16-834: The North American continent since Canada used province as the term for its first-level political subdivision. Province in Canada is a loose analogy for state in the US, and obviously would create great confusion if the same word was used in two vastly different geographical classifications. As late as 1914, the terminology used by an AAG publication used the term "natural region" as the basic denomination of physiography. That work showed 22 examples of how geographers had published works classifying North America into what had been defined as natural regions. Most included all of North America without regard to political subdivision. Fenneman expanded and presented
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