In the Middle of Nowhere, a Nation’s Center

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/us/02land.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/02/us/0602-LAND_index.html

It is a wind-tattered American flag, flapping at the top of a silvery pole that rises from the Dakota moonscape like the claim stake of some disoriented astronaut. A hand-scrawled sign propped against a barbed-wire fence provides confirmation: Though the absence of a souvenir stand or even a snow-cone booth would suggest otherwise, this remote spot is, in fact, the declared geographic center of the United States.