• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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    275 months ago

    Hey west coast, quit hogging all the waterfalls! Especially California, y’all don’t have water, why are you wasting it on falls?

    • MacN'CheezusOP
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      145 months ago

      Hahaha! California actually has lot of pretty tall mountains that get regular annual snowfall so I’m assuming that’s responsible for quite a few of them. Also, contrary to popular belief it DOES rain there occasionally (most during January and February), but when it does, it’s often heavy enough to cause flash flooding, especially in the desert. I’m wiling to bet most of the waterfalls there are probably seasonal.

    • @Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      35 months ago

      the water crisis is largely in chunk, due to the agriculture taking up like 95% of it, as california by far is the largest state in the U.S in terms of crop export and it happens to also be the one producing the most water intensive ones (alfalfa(used as food for cows internationally), several nuts and avocados)

  • HubertManne
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    205 months ago

    would be interesting to get waterfalls per area of land so that big states are not overly represented.

    • MacN'CheezusOP
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      25 months ago

      I mean, you could just put it all in an Excel table, look up the area of each state, and divide the number of waterfalls by that.

      • HubertManne
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        165 months ago

        yeah and I could have just looked up all the info and not used this but the only reason I gave it some thought was someone thought it was interesting enough to post and presumably receive feedback.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      45 months ago

      There’s a place on the Blackwater River I have marked. So far I’ve traced 7 waterfalls trekking uphill from the water side. But I can hear more in the distance!

      The biggest one is a monstrous 3’ high.

      • @GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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        35 months ago

        So far I’ve traced 7 waterfalls trekking uphill from the water side. But I can hear more in the distance!

        So, I guess you hear 3, at most, in the distance.

  • @rab@lemmy.ca
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    95 months ago

    Alaska should have the most by far, I’m not sure this is an accurate count.

    • @EnochianFarms@lemmy.world
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      125 months ago

      “Both states were not included in the larger dataset. Number of watefalls is likely higher than depicted.” in reference to Alaska and Hawaii. It might not have been super visible to some people.

      • @rab@lemmy.ca
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        35 months ago

        Yeah I didn’t see that.

        As a geography nerd I don’t think we have the capabilities to actually count every single waterfall in Alaska. Alaska is still true wilderness and it is massive

    • MacN'CheezusOP
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      25 months ago

      That’s what I thought as well, but do keep in mind that a pretty large chunk of it is just flat, frozen tundra.

  • @Anamnesis@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Here in Washington it’s hard to imagine waterfalls even being noteworthy. We’ve got way too many mountains and way too much precipitation. We’re lousy with waterfalls. The whole fuckin state is a goddamned waterfall.

  • Neat, thanks for sharing.

    For instances like Rhode Island (5) and Florida (4), the map groups them in the same range, even though Florida is far larger than Rhode Island. I wonder how it would change the map to have the scales be determined by density, like waterfalls/km^2.