Property values in Westchester County, Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut are among the highest in the nation, due to the proximity to New York City and their location on " The Sound ".

Now, the most secure strongholds of the New York dialect are arguably the suburban areas of Nassau County, western Suffolk County, Westchester County, Rockland County, northern and southwestern Queens, southern Brooklyn, and Staten Island, although many strong New York dialect speakers remain in Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

Since the 107. 1 version of WLIR is located about 50 miles east of the original WLIR, many of the station's fans in New York City, southwestern Connecticut, southern Westchester County, New York, northeastern New Jersey, and even the western parts of Long Island itself could not easily receive the station ( many of these areas were closer geographically to other 107. 1s, WXPK in central Westchester County and WWZY in Long Branch, New Jersey, which hindered reception ).

The southwestern border of Connecticut, where it abuts New York State, is marked by a panhandle in Fairfield County, containing the towns of Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan, Darien and part of Norwalk.

The Carson River flows from Douglas County through the southwestern edge of Carson City.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

* Perth County, Ontario, a county in southwestern Ontario

The South Fork rises in the southwestern corner of Hunt County and flows east for, joining the Caddo Fork and Cowleech Fork in southeastern Hunt County.

The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport is located on the southwestern edge of the plateau at 1, 438 feet in elevation.

Despite marketing claims and popular misconceptions, the Florida resort is not located within Orlando city limits and is actually located about southwest of downtown Orlando within southwestern Orange County, with the remainder in adjacent Osceola County.

The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U. S. state of Colorado.

Others ventured to Canada to settle in southwestern Ontario, notably Waterloo County.

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U. S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County.

Clark County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U. S. state of Washington, across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon.

In the 2012 House of Representatives election, southwestern Dutchess County is represented by Republican Nan Hayworth.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.

Allegany County is in the southwestern part of New York State, along the Pennsylvania border.

Cattaraugus County is in the southwestern part of the state, immediately north of the Pennsylvania border.

Chautauqua County, in the southwestern corner of New York State, along the New York-Pennsylvania border, is the westernmost of New York's counties.

It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.

Chemung County is in the southwestern part of New York State, along the Pennsylvania border, in a part of New York called the Southern Tier and is also part of the Finger Lakes Region.

From 1772 to 1786 Albany County included, besides the present territory of Albany County, all of the present Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties, parts of the present Greene and Washington Counties, and a piece of what is now southwestern Vermont.

Steuben County is in the southwestern part of New York State, immediately north of the Pennsylvania border.

It was called Prohesperocyon wilsoni and was found in what is now southwestern Texas.

As he was trying to reach either Italy or Spain, Magnentius ' supporters cornered him in a fortification in Vicus Helena ( now Elne ) in the Pyrenees, southwestern Gaul, where he was killed by Magnentius ' assassins after seeking sanctuary in a temple.

The artisans and blacksmiths of Iberia in what is now southern Spain and southwestern France produced various iron daggers and swords of high quality from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, in ornamentation and patterns influenced by Greek, Punic ( Carthaginian ), and Phoenician culture.

Thales ( 635-543 BC ) of Miletus ( now in southwestern Turkey ), was the first to whom deduction in mathematics is attributed.

The Wassoulou or Wassulu empire was a short-lived ( 1878 – 1898 ) empire, led by Samori Ture in the predominately Malinké area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali ( Wassoulou ).

* 1490 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje ( now southwestern Slovenia ).

Once part of the French Colonial Empire, the Louisiana Territory stretched from present-day Mobile Bay to just north of the present-day Canadian border, and included a small part of what is now southwestern Canada.

The Wassoulou or Wassulu Empire was a short-lived ( 1878 – 1898 ) empire, led by Samori Ture in the predominately Malinké area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali ( Wassoulou ).

In the subtropical southwestern lowlands, which have the highest average temperatures, the climate is arid, although some sections now are irrigated for farming.

** Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed at the Battle of Guté Dili by an alliance of Shewan forces under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte.

The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.

* July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje ( now southwestern Slovenia ).

In late frontier times, the Chiricahua ranged from San Carlos and the White Mountains of Arizona, to the adjacent mountains of southwestern New Mexico around what is now Silver City, and down into the mountain sanctuaries of the Sierra Madre ( of northern Mexico ).

In ancient times only the northern part of the region was called Apulia ; the southern peninsula was known as Calabria, a name now used to designate the southwestern tip of the Italian peninsula ( the " toe " of the Italian " boot ").

It crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia ( now West Virginia ), on the Ohio River in 1818.

From 1772 to 1786 Albany County included, besides the present territory of Albany County, all of the present Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties, parts of the present Greene and Washington Counties, and a piece of what is now southwestern Vermont.

He was sixth of the eight children of Ludwig and Christiana ( Schwahn ) Welk, ethnic Germans who emigrated to America in 1892 from Selz, Kutschurgan District, in the German-speaking area north of Odessa ( now Odessa, Ukraine, but then in southwestern Russia ).

He then sailed along the coast until the pillars were found in the southwestern peninsula, now known as Reykjanesskagi.

Stephen F. Austin was born in the mining regions of southwestern Virginia ( Wythe County ), in what is now known as Austinville some west of Richmond, Virginia .< ref >

* Susa ( formerly Seleucia ad Eulaeum ), now in southwestern Iran

The settlement of Lord Baltimore's Maryland began with the arrival of passengers from England at St. Clement's Island in the Potomac River in what is now southwestern St. Mary's County on March 25, 1634 ( the anniversary of this landing being annually celebrated as Maryland Day ).

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado y Luján ( 1510 – 22 September 1554 ) was a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.