I noticed on the news the other day that the eastern border of New Mexico isn’t square.  There is a jog at the Oklahoma panhandle.  Just a small one but I wondered what the story was.  It seems a surveying error and politics gave what should have been about 1,000 square miles of land over to Texas from New Mexico.  An interesting read from Texas Standard.

How A Bad Survey And Powerful Connections Added 1,000 Square Miles To Texas’ Lands