In particular, the eastern Midwest near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains ; the Great Lakes Basin ; the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri ; the rugged topography of Southern Indiana and far Southern Illinois ; and the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa exhibit a high degree of topographical variety.

Along with the Ozark Mountains, the Ouachita Mountains form the U. S. Interior Highlands, one of the few major mountainous regions between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.

The Interior Plains continued to receive deposits from the eroding Rocky Mountains to the west and Appalachian and Ozark / Ouachita Mountains to the east and south throughout the era.

Ozark English is a dialect of American English, spoken in the Ozark Mountain region of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, that is more closely related to Appalachian English than to the North Midland and South Midland dialects of the surrounding regions.

*" Appalachian English and Ozark English " in the Encyclopedia of Appalachia

Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85 % of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10 % of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province.

Located within the New England province of the Appalachian Region, Rhode Island has two distinct natural regions.

In addition, the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 created jobs in one of the most impoverished regions of the country.

Teams are located in the Appalachian regions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee.

The county is located in the Till Plains and the Appalachian Plateau land regions.

This cold period saw the re-joining of Laurentia and Baltica with the formation of the Appalachian Mountains and the vast coal deposits which are today, or were very recently, a mainstay of the economies of such regions as West Virginia, Britain and Germany.

The Appalachian Basin is one of the most important coal producing regions in the US and one of the biggest in the world.

USGS map colored by Paleogeology | paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U. S physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland ( area 1 ), Atlantic Plain ( 2-3 ), Appalachian Mountains | Appalachian Highlands ( 4-10 ), Interior Plains ( 11-13 ), Interior Highlands ( 14-15 ), Geography of the United States Rocky Mountain System | Rocky Mountain System ( 16-19 ), Intermontane Plateaus ( 20-22 ), & Pacific Mountain System ( 23-25 )

Other regions of the United States: the Pacific Northwest, the southernmost Appalachian Mountains, and the immediate coastal region from North Carolina to Delaware all would warrant further investigation.

* In the United States mushroom picking is particularly popular in the Appalachian areas of the United States and on the west coast from the San Francisco Bay Area northward along the Pacific Coast, in northern California, Oregon and Washington, and in many other regions.

The Ohio Country ( sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French ) was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.

Some of these deer may have been from as far north as the Great Lakes region to as far west as Texas, yet are also quite at home in the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of the south.

It occurs in the Appalachian and Midwestern regions of the United States.

Missisquoi County, part of the Eastern Townships ( one of roughly 12 regions in Québec ), is located on the western fringes of the Appalachian foothills, giving it a rolling landscape on its eastern part.

In North America its range extends through Arctic regions, from Alaska to Newfoundland, and south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and to the Appalachian Mountains of New England.

The popularity of-ville was most popular in the southern and western ( Appalachian ) regions of the new country, and less popular in New England.

Its operations are focused on the development of onshore unconventional and conventional natural gas in the U. S. in the Barnett Shale, Haynesville Shale, Marcellus Shale, Anadarko Basin, Arkoma Basin, Appalachian Basin, Permian Basin, Delaware Basin, South Texas, Texas Gulf Coast and East Texas regions of the United States.

The pepperoni roll is a snack popular in West Virginia and some nearby regions of the Appalachian Mountains such as Western Pennsylvania, Western Maryland and Appalachian Ohio.

In North America, the common sundew is found in all parts of Canada except the Canadian Prairies and the tundra regions, southern Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and along the Appalachian Mountains south to Georgia and Louisiana.

Soup beans is a term common in the Southern United States, particularly the regions around the Appalachian Mountains.

By the late forties, radio stations broadcast music described as " hillbilly ," originally to describe fiddlers and string bands, but was then used to describe the traditional music of the people of the Appalachian Mountains.

The most prevalent drug is OxyContin, a synthetic opiate originally developed as a cancer drug, known colloquially as oxys and hillbilly heroin ( because of the drugs association with Appalachian areas of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia ).

Okeh, which had previously coined the terms " hillbilly music " to describe Appalachian and Southern fiddle-based and religious music and " race recording " to describe the music of African American recording artists, began using " old-time music " as a term to describe the music made by artists of Carson's style.

Western music shared similar roots with Appalachian folk music (" hillbilly music "), which developed in Appalachia separately from, but parallel to, the Western music genre.

This introduced the character of Hillbilly Jim ; a simple-minded, shaggy-bearded Appalachian hillbilly clad in bib overalls, and hailing from Mudlick, Kentucky.

The region has long been historically poor compared to much of the rest of the country ; many of the rural Appalachian people travelled to cities for work, and were there labeled hillbillies, and their music became known as hillbilly music.

In subsequent decades, as the country music industry tried to move into the mainstream, musicians and industry executives sought to deemphasize the genre's Appalachian connections, most notably by dropping the term " hillbilly music " in favor of " country.

In 1747, a group of Virginian speculators formed the Ohio Company, with the backing of the British crown, to start English settlement and trade in the Ohio Country west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Between the lake plain and Appalachian highlands is a zone noted for drumlins, smaller, scattered hills formed as mounds of debris left by the last glacier.

Northwards from Kingsport, US-23 continues north to Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Corridor B of the Appalachian Development Highway System, and beyond to Columbus, as the Corridor C. In conjunction with the Columbus-Toledo, Ohio corridor formed by Interstate 75, U. S. 23, and State Route 15, I-26 forms part of a mostly high-speed four-or-more-lane highway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast at Charleston, South Carolina.

Guernsey County, located in the Appalachian foothills, was first formed and organized in 1810 from portions of Muskingum and Belmont counties.

A complexly thrust faulted and folded terrane ( Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt or Eastern Overthrust Belt ), formed at the end of the Paleozoic by the Alleghenian orogeny, characterizes the eastern flank of the basin.

Primarily composed of quartz monzonite, the dome of Stone Mountain was formed during the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains.

In the late 1930s, Bill Monroe formed the Blue Grass Boys ( named after his native state of Kentucky, the blue grass state ) and combined diverse influences into Appalachian folk music.

The Berkshires and related Green Mountains formed over half a billion years ago when Africa collided with North America, pushing up the Appalachian Mountains and forming the bedrock of the Berkshires.

The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions or sections — the Appalachian Mountains formed mostly by the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, the Middle or Piedmont Plateau, and the Eastern or Tidewater section, also known as the Coastal Plain.

The rock layers of the Alleghenies were formed during the Appalachian orogeny.

The Appalachian Regional Commission was formed in 1965 to aide economic development in the Appalachian region, which was lagging far behind the rest of the nation on most economic indicators.

It was uplifted during the period of mountain building that formed the Appalachians, known as the Appalachian orogeny.

The Alleghanian orogeny or Appalachian orogeny is one of the geological mountain-forming events that formed the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Mountains.

The CBNS route crosses varied and beautiful scenery ranging from mixed farmland, forests and river valleys formed by the Appalachian Mountains, to the Strait of Canso ( it crosses on the Canso Causeway ) and various inlets of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Claytor Lake was formed when Appalachian Power Company built the Claytor Dam on the New River, just south of Radford, Virginia, in 1939.

In 1926, the Club's trail officially became a part of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and member clubs such as Cabin and Trail began to be formed.

In 1963 President Kennedy formed the President's Appalachian Regional Commission to assist in advancing legislation to bring federal dollars to Appalachia.

Other cities, like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, had good natural harbors, but New York's advantage over other cities of the Eastern Seaboard was that the Hudson River and the Erie Canal formed the only water-level route through the Appalachian Mountains.

As the Appalachian Mountains were formed, the limestone that was once the sea floor was pushed to the surface.

The mountains themselves were formed between 200 million and 400 million years ago during the Appalachian orogeny, when the North American and African plates collided, thrusting the rock formations upward.

In 1910, an affluent group of Knoxville hunting and fishing enthusiasts formed the Appalachian Club and purchased what is now " Daisy Town " south of the confluence of Little River and Jakes Creek.

As membership in the Appalachian Club proved remarkably difficult to obtain, several rejected Knoxvillians purchased the Wonderland Hotel site and formed the Wonderland Club in 1919.