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Four Corners| A unique locality in the USA, where four states border one another. The states are Colorado to the northeast, New Mexico to the southeast, Utah to the northwest, and Arizona to the southwest. |
| Four Corners is surrounded on three sides by the Navajo Indian Reservation and in Colorado by the Ute Mountain reservation. The Four Corners area is sacred to the Navajo. A monument in the ground at the meeting point is a popular tourist attraction. The San Juan River flows to the northeast. Cortez, Colorado, is 53 km/33 mi to the northeast and Shiprock, New Mexico, 56 km/35 mi to the southeast. Farmington, New Mexico, which is 79 km/49 mi east-southeast of Four Corners, is the site of the huge Four Corners coal-fuelled power plant. The Four Corners region is a uranium mining district. |
Four Corners| Town in Marion County, northwest Oregon; population (1990) 12,200. It is a residential suburb to the east of Salem. |
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