Editing Georgia (U.S. state) (section)

===Boundaries===
Beginning from the Atlantic Ocean, the state's eastern border with South Carolina runs up the [[Savannah River]], northwest to its origin at the [[confluence]] of the [[Tugaloo River|Tugaloo]] and [[Seneca River (South Carolina)|Seneca Rivers]]. It then continues up the Tugaloo (originally Tugalo) and into the [[Chattooga River]], its most significant [[tributary]]. These bounds were decided in the 1797 [[Treaty of Beaufort]], and tested in the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in the two ''[[Georgia v. South Carolina]]'' cases in 1923 and 1989.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The border then takes a sharp turn around the tip of [[Rabun County, Georgia|Rabun County]], at [[35th parallel north|latitude 35°N]], though from this point it diverges slightly south (due to inaccuracies in the original survey, conducted in 1818).<ref name=saporta/> This northern border was originally the Georgia and North Carolina border all the way to the [[Mississippi River]], until [[Tennessee]] was divided from [[North Carolina]], and the Yazoo companies induced the legislature of Georgia to pass an act, approved by the governor in 1795, to sell the greater part of Georgia's territory presently comprising [[Alabama]] and [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcoybLve0aQC&pg=PA30 |author=Ulrich Bonnell Phillips|title= Georgia and state rights: a study of the political history of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War|publisher=Annual Report of American Historical Association for the 57th US Congress, 1901|page=30|access-date=October 23, 2012|year=1902}}</ref>

The state's western border runs in a straight line south-southeastward from a point southwest of [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]], to meet the [[Chattahoochee River]] near [[West Point, Georgia|West Point]]. It continues downriver to the point where it joins the [[Flint River (Georgia)|Flint River]] (the confluence of the two forming Florida's [[Apalachicola River]]); the southern border goes almost due east and very slightly south, in a straight line to the [[St. Marys River (Florida/Georgia)|St. Mary's River]], which then forms the remainder of the boundary back to the ocean.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The water boundaries are still set to be the original [[thalweg]] of the rivers. Since then, several have been inundated by lakes created by dams, including the [[ACF River Basin|Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint]] point now under [[Lake Seminole]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

An 1818 survey erroneously placed Georgia's border with Tennessee {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} south of the intended location of the 35th parallel north.<ref name=saporta>{{cite news|last=Morton|first=William J.|date=April 4, 2016|title=How Georgia got its northern boundary – and why we can't get water from the Tennessee River|url=https://saportareport.com/georgia-got-northern-boundary-cant-get-water-tennessee-river/|work=Saporta Report|location=Atlanta|access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref> State legislators [[Tennessee–Georgia water dispute|still dispute this placement]], as correction of this inaccuracy would allow Georgia access to water from the [[Tennessee River]].<ref>{{cite news |title=In drought, water found: next door |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-10-na-water10-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 10, 2008}}</ref>