Editing Sumas, Washington (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|1.48|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-12-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archive-date=2012-01-25}}</ref>

Because of the limits of technology when the border with Canada was surveyed, the border west of the [[Cascade Range]] lies above the [[49th parallel north|49th parallel]]; the most extreme offset (three city blocks) is at Sumas, which is thus the northernmost incorporated place in the contiguous United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Judd |first=Ron |date=February 13, 2015 |title=Canada, Seattle's neighbor to the north? Nope, better check your map |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/pacificnw/2025567375_0215northernexposurexml.html |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Tristin |date=February 26, 2017 |title=The town that should be Canadian: How a surveying error put Sumas, Washington on B.C. soil |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-town-that-should-be-canadian-how-a-surveying-error-put-sumas-washington-on-b-c-soil/wcm/95903a11-0c1b-45cb-84db-5893f33d7ef0 |work=[[National Post]] |access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref>