I'm not too sure where the source data for this post originated, but here is the Wiki for US Ecoregions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_the_United_States_(EPA)
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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What is Deseret? turns out it is not a misspelling of desert on the map.
Mormon's fantasy empire.
Yeah, I looked it up and started to read about it but decided to has better things to do with my time than finish the article.
It was the name the original Mormon settlers in Utah gave to the area.
Iirc Joeseph Smith claimed that was an ancient "Jaredite" word for honeybee.
The "Jaredites" were an imaginary people from Mesopotamia who left after the collapse of the tower of Babel in sealed boats and ended up in the good ol US of A.
Obviously there is no achaeological evidence for this group of people because Joeseph Smith made them up for his ~~cult~~ fanfic
Yup, I linked it in my reply.
What’s up with the Boston portion of Arkansas? What makes it different than Ozark?
Edit: Boston Mountains
This is just fanfic.
I like how sporadic state names are, then you get to the midwest and it's just like "fuck it, let's keep Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Ohio". Honorable mention for the Utah-Wyoming-Colorado-New Mexico section
Maybe they should all be named after tribes
Yes, and also not use the name of the whole continent for itself like a spoiled bitch.
why is Deseret on here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
The map renames the actual EPA ecoregions as if they were states. "Deseret" here is just the Central Basin and Range ecoregion, but that happens to line up pretty well with the proposed State of Deseret so the author seems to have just gone with it
Iowa ❤️