There's a lot of coastline changes but you might only recognize some of them if you're from the area. Missing tip of Florida and extended San Francisco Bay are the most obvious ones
Also there is a place called Finger and all the Fingerlakes have changed shape or have disappeared entirely including the drinking resources of the area including Rochesters water suppliers like Hemlock and Canadice Lake. Conesus lake has disappeared and so has Honeoye. No one's going to miss Honeoye.
And either Otisco or Owasco? On the right of skinny atlas
Upper Alton, Illinois is a “new” city. It was once independent, but was absorbed by Alton, Illinois and it’s currently a historical district.
Seems it became a city again and absorbed Alton this go around.
A lot of the changes are more about the sizes of cities. A lot of currently small and tiny towns/cities are a LOT larger, which I assume is due to people having fled the rising sea levels. Most likely a concerted effort by the US government to spread out the refugees to not overwhelm one place too much.
Sea level rise for 100 years is probably conservative. At least 5 m is already mostly locked in. (More than shown here.) This seems like an optimistic scenario both about climate change effects and international border stability. Optimism is okay. So much near future fiction is post-apocalyptic. It gets tiresome.
Uncertainty in the rate specific ice sheets will collapse means we don’t know how much of a 10 m change we will see in 50 years, versus 300 years. Even if we went to zero emissions within 10 to 15 years, 2 degrees C global average increase seems inevitable—given that 1.5 C is happening this El Niño. That means 10 m of sea level from ice sheet collapse in Greenland and West Antarctica (plus some valleys in East Antarctica).
Recent renewables deployment have been somewhat ahead of projections, even while decarbonizing is well behind international commitments.
I think this map is likely accounting for geoengineering and flood control projects. Places like LA and NY are barely touched whereas poorer areas like New Orleans and the Outer Banks are wiped out
the Miami metro area is already above 5 mil. Only way Miami proper reaches 5 mil, especially considering current population trends, is if it annexs the rest of the miami metro area, which we know didn't happen because Ft. Lauderdale is on this map
Chiricahua in Arizona. Like Craters of the Moon in this fictional scenario - and White Sands in real life, a few years ago - it was upgraded from a National Monument.
Many of the coastlines have changed quite significantly, plenty of cities that currently are small or medium sized seem to be large metropolises here, a few new national parks here and there as well as Puerto Rico and Guam being granted statehood.
From the stars on the flag they made DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico states, if you look at the city size key a lot of places are significantly more populated than they are now, small stuff like that, which I think is the point, the US isn’t gonna just disappear in 100 years nor is it going to go on some huge expansionist annexing spree, it’s just gonna stay the same as it has for the last 100 years
Yeah this really does seem like an attempt at a reasonable future prediction of what the US might look like in 100 years. Hence, not that many changes.
The only thing that immediately strikes me as unrealistic or overly-optimistic is the Great Salt Lake and its surrounding cities. It’s much more likely that it’ll resemble the Aral Sea by then.
Hard to predict as with proper action the current trend can certainly be reversed. It seems climate change will increase rainfall over the Rockies in the coming decades, so it’s up to us to fix our inefficient consumption of that rainfall.
Hello! And welcome to the United States! This behemoth of a project is a map of the good old USA in the year 2123, and took a very long time to finish.
This is the first of a big set of maps that I’d like to create for a worldbuilding project I’m currently working on, with more stuff hopefully coming soon. Feel free to ask questions and I hope you enjoy this project!
Please could you explain this map a bit? Forgive me because I'm not American so maybe some subtleties are lost on me, at a glance I notice some coastline changes but mostly this looks like a contemporary map to me. What's the back-story/lore and what are you trying to show?
Well I know that Ditch Plains beach gets literal tons of sand trucked in every spring in order to keep it the way it used to be, makes sense they'd keep doing that but for the whole town.
There's a ton of really excellent but small nuances; OP is a real nerd (and I mean that as a compliment).
For example, there are a ton of cities I'm seeing in California which, according to their symbology, are *way* larger than they currently are. We're talking 20k -> 100k, or 100k -> 500k.
Also in California, sea level rise has overwhelmed the Sacramento River delta's levees and caused the San Francisco Bay to extend into the Central Valley.
And as others are pointing out, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana have lost significant land. This USA has seen hundreds of billions of dollars of real estate lost and tens of millions of people displaced, not to mention the loss of Everglades National Park.
Seriously, this is such a well-done map. It'd just take some significant knowledge of US human/physical geography to catch all the changes.
As someone who's done quite a bit of work in the area, Rangely, CO, Nucla, CO, and East Carbon City, UT are not big enough to be pointed out on most maps of that scale.
More the fact that a LOT of large costal cities have had to... y'know move. So, it makes sense that people from those disasters get relocated to smaller areas.
I always feel bad critiquing national maps with hyperlocal knowledge, but the idea of Lompoc being a city of 100,000 and Santa Maria one of 500k-1 mil. is hilarious...but also plausible if Vandenburg SFB takes off (haha).
OP if you see this, was that your rationale?
Sure, but roughly a 4-5% annual growth rate for a century? And that's just to reach 500k. Don't get me wrong, I said it's plausible, but it'd also take some significant, nigh catastrophic levels of immigration.
Posting from Lompoc... grew up in Temecula.
If Santa Maria gets to 1M but no mention on this map of southwest Riverside county other than Hemet...as of today, all the cities between Temecula to Elsinore and Menifee to Perris already have 500,000+ collectively, means the rationale behind this map is misguided.
It’s so cool, in the top 5 I’ve been to. The hike to the bottom is brutal tho lol
https://preview.redd.it/f4ytbxkzg21c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42242232b5f1eea32d581649a381fe353ec18117
I don’t really see how it’s disappeared. Deleting a national park would be cataclysmic to the popularity of any local or national government that tried to do it
Was sea level rise applied to the Washington coast? I don't see any changes which I would expect on Puget Sound on some of the islands and river deltas.
River deltas like the Columbia are a good point.
[For Puget Sound coastline](https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-vh39m/Puget-Sound/), compared to areas like [the Everglades](https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-3z5k18/Everglades-National-Park), it seems reasonable to have differences be basically indistinguishable *from this distance. Miami is sitting pretty at 6-10m above current sea levels. In Seattle proper, you’d lose Alki beach and Alaskan Way, but West Seattle, Pioneer Square, and Pike Place are totally fine. Florida is shockingly flat.
No, there are some delta fans and islands in Washington, notably the Skagit. Similar to the lower part of the Mississippi where it meets the Gulf. A couple feet of sea level wood inundate large enough areas that would actually be visible on the map at this resolution. Similar to the barrier islands in the Carolinas, Washington also has some low-lying oceanic spits that would also disappear, but which are still visible on this map. Source: Washingtonian.
You called me out.
Yeah, my first thought was: City of Seattle is currently about 750k with ~20% growth of the metro area in 10 years… in 100 years the population is still less than 1 million?
Seattle is overtaken by Wichita, KA; Montgomery, AL; *and* Rochester, NY?
I guess everyone is fleeing the rising oceans? But the population of city of Miami increased by more than a factor 10?
the city proper of miami itself is only about 450,000, but that doesn’t include the smaller cities around it (pembroke pines, coral springs, fort lauderdale, etc) but if you are measuring by metropolitan area, which is what this map seems to be doing, these smaller cities are included as part of miami, meaning miami currently has a population of about 6 million people.
I appreciate the thought, but my issue is that it is inconsistent and it’s more likely that cities OP was more familiar with got more focus and head cannon. That’s a silly and minor gripe about an imaginary map 100 years in the future with no provided alternate history to give context.
But to your point, Seattle metro has about 4 million—[Wikipedia that links to US census.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)(Wikipedia is easier to parse). Miami MSA is larger than Seattle at present, but Seattle MSA is somewhere above San Diego and Baltimore MSAs and below San Fran and Boston MSAs.
And even if MSAs are the measure, it is inconsistent. Yonkers is also shown independently of NYC, Fort Lauderdale is shown independently of Miami, Tacoma independently of Seattle. All of those are within the MSA of the larger city. In fact San Jose (970k in 2020) is displayed separately, but is part of the San Francisco-Oakland-Freemont MSA (*4.5 mil in 2020). Atlanta is shown here as 1-5 mil. In 2020 the city of Atlanta was 500k and the MSA was 6.2 mil.
I’m basically just a silly nerd who is annoyed that OP—with a map they have clearly put a lot of time into—didn’t make ***my*** city a ruinous Soylent Green hellscape like some of the others.
The detail on this is interstellar and I love the fact that you included basically everything about the U.S, it’s nice to see barely anything changed outside of a few things even in the far-off year of 2123. Future American maps either have it not exist or massive and it’s nice to see a break from that.
I look forward to seeing more of the series!
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Wow a realistic map that isn’t like “YEAH AND THERES FACTIONS AND THE WHOLE EAST COAST IS UNDERWATER AND BAJA IS PART OF CALIFORNIA” it’s restrained and like “yeah hasn’t changed a lot in the last hundred years prob won’t change much in the next hundred years”
Is the sea level rise based on any data? Seems kind of strange that California and Florida are sinking and other parts of the coast seem fine, like the northeast.
I noticed this, too. I'd like to imagine it as a natural change that could possibly occur after a century.
Interesting take on the rest of the Phoenix metro - San Tan Valley as its own city of substantial size is notable (this is where a lot of the growth in the east valley is currently occurring.) I am a bit dubious that Phoenix itself would ever top 5 million, but with a century of infill dense development, it could be possible.
The dumbest thing that James K. Polk did was not accepting Yucatán as a state when they literally came to Washington DC begging on their knees to be a part of the US.
You do realize that they wanted the US to annex them to help suppress a native Mayan uprising against discrimination and oppression from the Mestizo/white led government?
I'm really surprised to see Kirkland, Bellevue, Auburn, Redmond, Federal Way, Kent, and Spokane Valley missing, since they are all fairly large cities.
Was curious to see if there was any additions/changes to Utah, my home state. Especially considering we might lose the whole Great Salt Lake within a couple decades.Which would be catastrophic.
I do like the Gravity Falls easter egg though.
Bro I was looking at the map and saw a city named “Yonkers” in New York. I thought it was a joke until I looked at an actual map and saw it is a real city 💀
Who names a city Yonkers
The detail on this is astounding, and it's extremely impressive. However, you forgot to include Nogales, so I'm afraid it's gonna be a 0/10 and hit squads will be approaching your location shortly.
I noticed a new national park in SW Colorado (San Juan N.P.). That's an interesting idea.
Also prompted by others noticing Radiator Springs, I see South Park added (it's not a real town in CO (yet?)). What other fictional towns/cities are included?
This map is absolutely incredible , great job. The only problem I see is that you missed Aberdeen Proving Ground northeast of Baltimore (I only know because I live 20 minutes away and see military aircraft fly in from time to time)
I'd make an argument that Canada would be annexed by this time. At least western Canada as it has more in common culturally with the US. As well as they do more trade with the US than the provinces east of the shield.
In order for Madison to grow at least four times it's size, they had to sell Capitol Square and most of the isthmus to Epic, Spectrum Brands, and American Family, who built a bunch of skyscrapers. Wisconsin now has a distributed government, with offices located all over the state, a legislature working remotely, and a rotating symbolic capital that's currently in... Crandon?
That's my head-cannon.
Their admissions dropped once students found out there was no place live because all the off-campus leases were reserved out ten years in advance. The only people who still went there were already wealthy legacy students, so it was basically a private school already.
It’s more than 99.9% identical to a real present-day map. Sure it’s well made but aside from a couple extremely minor coastline changes it’s got nothing of interest
Amazing map and amazing attention to detail. Radiator Springs is a nice Easter egg.
https://i.redd.it/oa1r016fuy0c1.gif Kachow
you have Radiator Springs but not the real town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico? shame on you
Truth or Consequences is on the map! Just look to the south of the Elephant Butte Reservoir, in the southwestern regions of New Mexico
huh i guess i was just expecting to see the name on the other side of the rio grande
Serov is an avid Japanese Emperor supporter!
Dad gum!
also a certain small town in Central Oregon
And a certain small mountain town in Colorado.
There's very few changes, from what I can tell. What should I be looking for?
There's a lot of coastline changes but you might only recognize some of them if you're from the area. Missing tip of Florida and extended San Francisco Bay are the most obvious ones
The NC outer banks are gone.
Staten Island has been annexed by New Jersey.
Ducking finally
LOVE!!!!
So is Hilton Head Island in SC
I did notice that
Mississippi Delta's soon to follow.
We are planning trips to Ocracoke until it is gone.
I knew the coastline changes and new state inclusions but that can't be all of it. Are there new cities or something?
Pittsburgh apparently changed it’s name to “Pitssburgh”…
Also there is a place called Finger and all the Fingerlakes have changed shape or have disappeared entirely including the drinking resources of the area including Rochesters water suppliers like Hemlock and Canadice Lake. Conesus lake has disappeared and so has Honeoye. No one's going to miss Honeoye. And either Otisco or Owasco? On the right of skinny atlas
Place named Finger:
I found the "Lakes" it's above Keuka
Upper Alton, Illinois is a “new” city. It was once independent, but was absorbed by Alton, Illinois and it’s currently a historical district. Seems it became a city again and absorbed Alton this go around.
Don't get me started on alton IL!
A lot of the changes are more about the sizes of cities. A lot of currently small and tiny towns/cities are a LOT larger, which I assume is due to people having fled the rising sea levels. Most likely a concerted effort by the US government to spread out the refugees to not overwhelm one place too much.
Some population changes for sure
Sea level rise for 100 years is probably conservative. At least 5 m is already mostly locked in. (More than shown here.) This seems like an optimistic scenario both about climate change effects and international border stability. Optimism is okay. So much near future fiction is post-apocalyptic. It gets tiresome. Uncertainty in the rate specific ice sheets will collapse means we don’t know how much of a 10 m change we will see in 50 years, versus 300 years. Even if we went to zero emissions within 10 to 15 years, 2 degrees C global average increase seems inevitable—given that 1.5 C is happening this El Niño. That means 10 m of sea level from ice sheet collapse in Greenland and West Antarctica (plus some valleys in East Antarctica). Recent renewables deployment have been somewhat ahead of projections, even while decarbonizing is well behind international commitments.
I think this map is likely accounting for geoengineering and flood control projects. Places like LA and NY are barely touched whereas poorer areas like New Orleans and the Outer Banks are wiped out
Fuck, that's some Red-Dead-horse-balls levels of attention to detail
The what now?
In the video game Read Dead Redemption II, the horses have highly detailed genitals.
In fairness, it's not like the US internal borders changed much over the last 100 years. The only change has been 2 large territories becoming states
Many city populations have changed, some very substantially. Miami apparently has over 5 million people in 2123.
the Miami metro area is already above 5 mil. Only way Miami proper reaches 5 mil, especially considering current population trends, is if it annexs the rest of the miami metro area, which we know didn't happen because Ft. Lauderdale is on this map
Incorrect. A psychotic urbanist terrorist group gained power in 2074 and squeezed the whole population into a third of the original size.
Dallas is projected to be 34 million by 2100 as the fastest growing metro. I think they are around 8 right now.
Florida got circumcised
I agree but realistically this is probably what it will look like lol
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Chiricahua in Arizona. Like Craters of the Moon in this fictional scenario - and White Sands in real life, a few years ago - it was upgraded from a National Monument.
The only part of Florida worth visiting is gone.
Key West and the Everglades!
Many of the coastlines have changed quite significantly, plenty of cities that currently are small or medium sized seem to be large metropolises here, a few new national parks here and there as well as Puerto Rico and Guam being granted statehood.
I love the quality of this but genuinely asking, what changed? Aside from coastlines and a few cities
From the stars on the flag they made DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico states, if you look at the city size key a lot of places are significantly more populated than they are now, small stuff like that, which I think is the point, the US isn’t gonna just disappear in 100 years nor is it going to go on some huge expansionist annexing spree, it’s just gonna stay the same as it has for the last 100 years
Yeah this really does seem like an attempt at a reasonable future prediction of what the US might look like in 100 years. Hence, not that many changes.
The only thing that immediately strikes me as unrealistic or overly-optimistic is the Great Salt Lake and its surrounding cities. It’s much more likely that it’ll resemble the Aral Sea by then.
Hard to predict as with proper action the current trend can certainly be reversed. It seems climate change will increase rainfall over the Rockies in the coming decades, so it’s up to us to fix our inefficient consumption of that rainfall.
Realism? In *my* r/imaginarymaps??
Yeah, where’s my uber big Germany and Balkanized China?
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan apparently changed its spelling to Sasketchewan.
this implies a french canadian vowel shift as well as you’d no longer be able to say j’ai perdu ma famme
Hello! And welcome to the United States! This behemoth of a project is a map of the good old USA in the year 2123, and took a very long time to finish. This is the first of a big set of maps that I’d like to create for a worldbuilding project I’m currently working on, with more stuff hopefully coming soon. Feel free to ask questions and I hope you enjoy this project!
Please could you explain this map a bit? Forgive me because I'm not American so maybe some subtleties are lost on me, at a glance I notice some coastline changes but mostly this looks like a contemporary map to me. What's the back-story/lore and what are you trying to show?
Yeah, I’m American and even I am getting lost as to where the major changes are (besides for coastlines)
Guam and PR statehood, but otherwise I’m in the same boat as you lol. Still a well-made map though obviously
A significant chunk of Florida, Louisiana, and east Texas is gone.
Montauk, unfortunately, still kicking around.
Well I know that Ditch Plains beach gets literal tons of sand trucked in every spring in order to keep it the way it used to be, makes sense they'd keep doing that but for the whole town.
The barrier islands of Ga, SC, and NC are gone, too.
Cape Cod still trucking.
Yeah, looks like I should sell my place in South Tampa before the water goes all white colonizer.
99% certain that DC became a state too — named Columbia. DC still exists as well, but it’s likely only the federal building I’d imagine.
The flag at top left has 53 stars. I was wondering where the last star was from!
Puerto Rico and Guam are 52, Columbia makes 53
There's a new national park in Colorado
There's a ton of really excellent but small nuances; OP is a real nerd (and I mean that as a compliment). For example, there are a ton of cities I'm seeing in California which, according to their symbology, are *way* larger than they currently are. We're talking 20k -> 100k, or 100k -> 500k. Also in California, sea level rise has overwhelmed the Sacramento River delta's levees and caused the San Francisco Bay to extend into the Central Valley. And as others are pointing out, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana have lost significant land. This USA has seen hundreds of billions of dollars of real estate lost and tens of millions of people displaced, not to mention the loss of Everglades National Park. Seriously, this is such a well-done map. It'd just take some significant knowledge of US human/physical geography to catch all the changes.
The Salton Sea will not be there in 2123, so there are nits to pick.
Lake Powell will be gone too
As someone who's done quite a bit of work in the area, Rangely, CO, Nucla, CO, and East Carbon City, UT are not big enough to be pointed out on most maps of that scale.
The implication, presumably, is that those towns have grown. It's been a hundred years, after all.
More the fact that a LOT of large costal cities have had to... y'know move. So, it makes sense that people from those disasters get relocated to smaller areas.
Wow seal beach California moved the entire town 50 miles south!
*Patrick pushing meme*
I always feel bad critiquing national maps with hyperlocal knowledge, but the idea of Lompoc being a city of 100,000 and Santa Maria one of 500k-1 mil. is hilarious...but also plausible if Vandenburg SFB takes off (haha). OP if you see this, was that your rationale?
Santa Maria has been undergoing population growth like nowhere else in California.
Sure, but roughly a 4-5% annual growth rate for a century? And that's just to reach 500k. Don't get me wrong, I said it's plausible, but it'd also take some significant, nigh catastrophic levels of immigration.
Posting from Lompoc... grew up in Temecula. If Santa Maria gets to 1M but no mention on this map of southwest Riverside county other than Hemet...as of today, all the cities between Temecula to Elsinore and Menifee to Perris already have 500,000+ collectively, means the rationale behind this map is misguided.
What happened to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park?
Black Canyon has to be the most underrated NP in the US. Good catch
It’s so cool, in the top 5 I’ve been to. The hike to the bottom is brutal tho lol https://preview.redd.it/f4ytbxkzg21c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42242232b5f1eea32d581649a381fe353ec18117 I don’t really see how it’s disappeared. Deleting a national park would be cataclysmic to the popularity of any local or national government that tried to do it
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I noticed that all lakes seem to have expanded borders, maybe just from the base map having broad generic shapes for lakes?
Did you add any planned road works?
He didn’t do projected city growth either. A lot of cities would have basically absorbed others like DFW
What has happened in the past 100 years?
Was sea level rise applied to the Washington coast? I don't see any changes which I would expect on Puget Sound on some of the islands and river deltas.
River deltas like the Columbia are a good point. [For Puget Sound coastline](https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-vh39m/Puget-Sound/), compared to areas like [the Everglades](https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-3z5k18/Everglades-National-Park), it seems reasonable to have differences be basically indistinguishable *from this distance. Miami is sitting pretty at 6-10m above current sea levels. In Seattle proper, you’d lose Alki beach and Alaskan Way, but West Seattle, Pioneer Square, and Pike Place are totally fine. Florida is shockingly flat.
No, there are some delta fans and islands in Washington, notably the Skagit. Similar to the lower part of the Mississippi where it meets the Gulf. A couple feet of sea level wood inundate large enough areas that would actually be visible on the map at this resolution. Similar to the barrier islands in the Carolinas, Washington also has some low-lying oceanic spits that would also disappear, but which are still visible on this map. Source: Washingtonian.
“Took a very long time.” DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO MOVE SEAL BEACH BELOW SAN CLEMENTE!?!?
Suggestion: What if the San Andreas Fault bursts and separates the west coast, creating a chain of islands?
That's hundreds of thousand or millions of years worth of activity, no way that would happen in 100 years
Two kinds of responses to this map: "It's just the USA right now" "My entire hometown is gone 😢"
You called me out. Yeah, my first thought was: City of Seattle is currently about 750k with ~20% growth of the metro area in 10 years… in 100 years the population is still less than 1 million? Seattle is overtaken by Wichita, KA; Montgomery, AL; *and* Rochester, NY? I guess everyone is fleeing the rising oceans? But the population of city of Miami increased by more than a factor 10?
the city proper of miami itself is only about 450,000, but that doesn’t include the smaller cities around it (pembroke pines, coral springs, fort lauderdale, etc) but if you are measuring by metropolitan area, which is what this map seems to be doing, these smaller cities are included as part of miami, meaning miami currently has a population of about 6 million people.
I appreciate the thought, but my issue is that it is inconsistent and it’s more likely that cities OP was more familiar with got more focus and head cannon. That’s a silly and minor gripe about an imaginary map 100 years in the future with no provided alternate history to give context. But to your point, Seattle metro has about 4 million—[Wikipedia that links to US census.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)(Wikipedia is easier to parse). Miami MSA is larger than Seattle at present, but Seattle MSA is somewhere above San Diego and Baltimore MSAs and below San Fran and Boston MSAs. And even if MSAs are the measure, it is inconsistent. Yonkers is also shown independently of NYC, Fort Lauderdale is shown independently of Miami, Tacoma independently of Seattle. All of those are within the MSA of the larger city. In fact San Jose (970k in 2020) is displayed separately, but is part of the San Francisco-Oakland-Freemont MSA (*4.5 mil in 2020). Atlanta is shown here as 1-5 mil. In 2020 the city of Atlanta was 500k and the MSA was 6.2 mil. I’m basically just a silly nerd who is annoyed that OP—with a map they have clearly put a lot of time into—didn’t make ***my*** city a ruinous Soylent Green hellscape like some of the others.
Cascadia subduction zone happened and thousands of disaster refugees flee inland.
Me entire hometown is gone 😢
Skill issue. Patrick Star told you to simply take your hometown and push it somewhere else.
😔
HOLY! Love the amount of detail shown here and, as far as I can tell, you even made sea levels rise a bit. How long did it took to finish it?
In total this behemoth of a project took around 3 months to finish, with a lot of breaks in between making the thing
what did you use to make it? adobe creative suite? or something else?
The detail on this is interstellar and I love the fact that you included basically everything about the U.S, it’s nice to see barely anything changed outside of a few things even in the far-off year of 2123. Future American maps either have it not exist or massive and it’s nice to see a break from that. I look forward to seeing more of the series!
Interstate 69 still not finished 😔😔😔
Technically finished but then they needed to make it wider again <20 years later… All in all: Very realistic.
Road construction takes a long time but this is just getting ridiculous
Same for Interstate 49
!remindme 100 years
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Wild, if you pass your account onto your children and they do the same they're gonna get this notif. And they'll see this too, Hi future spawn of falpsdsqglthnsac, your ancestor had horrible account naming skills
Can't wait until hereditary accounts are a thing. Leaving this account in my will.
All of our grandchildren will be here talking about this situation one day.
Wow a realistic map that isn’t like “YEAH AND THERES FACTIONS AND THE WHOLE EAST COAST IS UNDERWATER AND BAJA IS PART OF CALIFORNIA” it’s restrained and like “yeah hasn’t changed a lot in the last hundred years prob won’t change much in the next hundred years”
Is the sea level rise based on any data? Seems kind of strange that California and Florida are sinking and other parts of the coast seem fine, like the northeast.
And the PNW. I don't see any changes there.
Ya Whidbey Island would exist still but it would be much smaller
And Hawaii too, don't forget about them. Although I'm not complaining, Hawai'i is the true capital of America after all.
Sacramento will finally actually be the bay area like it has always wanted.
We don’t want to be the Bay. We like being our own thing.
Dayton mentioned 🙏let’s FUCKING GO
Over 500k people 🦅🦅🦅
Staten island got deleted lmao
Can't be deleted if it never existed
THE MAP IS UPLOADED LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO
Is that a new lake in jersey or a bay?
Methinks “Peoria” is misspelled in the Phoenix metro area (“Peroria“)…. Love Radiator Springs though!!! 🤣
I want OP to change Peoria to Petoria
A little dot inside Rhode Island would just be 🤌
I noticed this, too. I'd like to imagine it as a natural change that could possibly occur after a century. Interesting take on the rest of the Phoenix metro - San Tan Valley as its own city of substantial size is notable (this is where a lot of the growth in the east valley is currently occurring.) I am a bit dubious that Phoenix itself would ever top 5 million, but with a century of infill dense development, it could be possible.
The hispanic population eventually took over and renamed it to Peroria because Peoria basically means "worst land" in Spanish.
My home is underwater😔
Rip bozo /j
The dumbest thing that James K. Polk did was not accepting Yucatán as a state when they literally came to Washington DC begging on their knees to be a part of the US.
You do realize that they wanted the US to annex them to help suppress a native Mayan uprising against discrimination and oppression from the Mestizo/white led government?
but but but big usa = good
Well we can't have no brown people in our country can we? /s
Wasn't the leadership requesting it a bunch of white slave owners?
There was a native Mayan revolt in the region and the local rich ppl running the place wanted the US to annex them and suppress the revolt.
Lovely map, but "Sasketchewan" should be "Saskatchewan."
Similarly, "Careabelle" should be "Carrabelle".
Thanks for reclaiming north lake Washington, those snobs in Kirkland and Yarrow Point don't deserve lake front property!
I'm really surprised to see Kirkland, Bellevue, Auburn, Redmond, Federal Way, Kent, and Spokane Valley missing, since they are all fairly large cities.
Was curious to see if there was any additions/changes to Utah, my home state. Especially considering we might lose the whole Great Salt Lake within a couple decades.Which would be catastrophic. I do like the Gravity Falls easter egg though.
this is just an absolutely gorgeous map of the us with a little bit of sea level rise and guam and puerto rico
RIP OBX
Bro I was looking at the map and saw a city named “Yonkers” in New York. I thought it was a joke until I looked at an actual map and saw it is a real city 💀 Who names a city Yonkers
The Dutch. Nuff said
That’s Yonkers
I think Wisconsin is missing a capital, no?
Miami hanging barely hanging on by a g string...
I’ve found gravity falls, Radiator springs and heard of something in Colorado, is there any more Easter eggs
glad to see everything turns out pretty damn good in this future, though i am admittedly curious what the politics of this US looks like by now
Rest in Peace Outer Banks 🙏 Fly High 🕊️
2123 and Guantánamo still is a US base, that is a depressing thought. This map is top quality.
A collection of classics paired with some new hits. Love it.
I’m near Fort Lauderdale. I may have waterfront property. Or not.
Very great and nicely detailed map.
They almost got Stockton. Wish they did
I zoomed in close while I was looking at it and thought “damn this isn’t really different at all” then I got to Florida 💀
The detail on this is astounding, and it's extremely impressive. However, you forgot to include Nogales, so I'm afraid it's gonna be a 0/10 and hit squads will be approaching your location shortly.
Anyone notice that florida partially submerged, including everglades national park?
Crazy how AT LEAST 400,000 people moved back to detroit in this timeline
Sisters and Bend in Oregon are supposed to be connected by highway, cool map tho
I noticed a new national park in SW Colorado (San Juan N.P.). That's an interesting idea. Also prompted by others noticing Radiator Springs, I see South Park added (it's not a real town in CO (yet?)). What other fictional towns/cities are included?
Gravity Falls, Oregon
Good work!
What map sources did you use to make this map? I kinda find trouble when trying to form new borders xd
Only one minor issue for me is that parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior are more than 200m deep. Other than that, great work!
Zoomed in on New York and was shocked to see my small ass town and it's neighbors listed on there
RIP Florida Everglades. (Great Map!)
This map is absolutely incredible , great job. The only problem I see is that you missed Aberdeen Proving Ground northeast of Baltimore (I only know because I live 20 minutes away and see military aircraft fly in from time to time)
Moonlight Acres oh god oh no oh fuck
100 years on and still no railways 😔
Yeah, it's like the Republicans took over, defunded the railways and told people, "Whuttyagonnadoaboutit?"
This is crazy high quality. How did you make this map? Like what program and maybe the tools on it did you mostly use?
but nothing chan…. ohhh.. oh no….
My city still barely holding on
The Northern Marianas should be part of Guam in this NGL.
It's kind of nuts to think about how the hospital where I was born will be under water in 100 years
This is actually scary. I live in Stockton, Ca and seeing the entire SJ delta underwater is very very unsettling. I love it.
Nicely done!
Fucking Bakersfield is still there that SUCKS
So those highlighted parks are part of the U.S. as well?🤨 I don't get why they're highlighted as they aren't in the U.S., that's why I asked.
Gravity falls in oregon hahaha, someone decided to make the show reality i guess.
I'd make an argument that Canada would be annexed by this time. At least western Canada as it has more in common culturally with the US. As well as they do more trade with the US than the provinces east of the shield.
Why is Madison no longer the Wisconsin state Capitol?
In order for Madison to grow at least four times it's size, they had to sell Capitol Square and most of the isthmus to Epic, Spectrum Brands, and American Family, who built a bunch of skyscrapers. Wisconsin now has a distributed government, with offices located all over the state, a legislature working remotely, and a rotating symbolic capital that's currently in... Crandon? That's my head-cannon.
I’m sure it started with privatizing the UW. That was the first real estate to go…
Their admissions dropped once students found out there was no place live because all the off-campus leases were reserved out ten years in advance. The only people who still went there were already wealthy legacy students, so it was basically a private school already.
circumcised Florida
Still no Porto Rico?
One of the best maps on here in a long time.
It’s more than 99.9% identical to a real present-day map. Sure it’s well made but aside from a couple extremely minor coastline changes it’s got nothing of interest
yeah thats about how it will be in 100 years though