Could a city like Lloydminster exist in the US?
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« on: May 30, 2019, 03:39:58 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydminster

Lloydminster is a city split between Alberta and Saskatchewan. What makes it unlike US cities like Kansas City and Texarkana is it's a single incorporated city with a single municipal government. US examples of this are just two cities with the same name that happen to border each other.

Are there any legal or constitutional hurdles to a city existing in two states with one government on the US?
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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2019, 05:17:47 PM »

I don't know, but we do often see this on the county level.  I was in Hoover, Alabama last weekend for the SEC Baseball Tournament, and I noticed that the stadium was in Jefferson County, but my hotel was in Shelby County.
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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2019, 05:37:17 PM »

I suppose its theoretically possible through an interstate compact of the 2 States approved by act of Congress. It would be easier for 1 State to just adjust its boundary around the City.
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2019, 06:22:17 PM »

Bristol, TN/VA would be the likeliest possibility I can think of. State Street in the downtown is literally split down the middle with one side of the street in Virginia while the other side of the double yellow line in Tennessee.
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2019, 08:13:58 PM »

Bristol, TN/VA would be the likeliest possibility I can think of. State Street in the downtown is literally split down the middle with one side of the street in Virginia while the other side of the double yellow line in Tennessee.
Would it be legal to make that one city instead of two with the same name though?
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2019, 09:15:57 AM »

Bristol, TN/VA would be the likeliest possibility I can think of. State Street in the downtown is literally split down the middle with one side of the street in Virginia while the other side of the double yellow line in Tennessee.
Would it be legal to make that one city instead of two with the same name though?

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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2019, 09:45:09 AM »

Bristol, TN/VA would be the likeliest possibility I can think of. State Street in the downtown is literally split down the middle with one side of the street in Virginia while the other side of the double yellow line in Tennessee.
Would it be legal to make that one city instead of two with the same name though?

No

It would probably require an interstate compact approved by Congress, but the Constitutional problems would no worse than those faced by the Port Authority of NY & NJ established by such a compact in 1921.
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