Four Corners – A Common Bond

The Four Corners is the only place in the United States where four states—Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah—meet at a common corner. U.S. government surveyors and astronomers began establishing and perpetuating this corner in 1868, and surveyors Darling, Robbins, Reeves, and Carpenter surveyed the boundary lines between the states. In 1899, U.S. surveyors Hubert Page and James Lentz found the monument disturbed and broken and set a new stone at the original location. Everett Kimmell of the General Land Office remonumented the Page-Lentz stone with a concrete and brass monument in 1931. In 1962, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs poured a concrete paving block around the Kimmell monument. In 1992, cadastral surveyors Darryl Wilson and Jack Eaves officially remonumented the deteriorating Kimmell marker with an aluminum bronze disc. The Four Corners area is surrounded by Indian lands: the Navajo Nation lies in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and the Ute Mountain Ute Nation is located in Colorado.

New Mexico · United States