Proposed US States That Didn't Make the Cut

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Four regions have proposed the use of this presidential name for a new state. One later became the Colorado Territory, two were in the state of Texas, and the fourth was comprised of parts of California and Oregon.

This proposed state in present-day eastern Tennessee was two votes shy of becoming our 14th state.

There were two different state proposals submitted for this name honoring a fallen president, one an area in southwest Texas, and another from the panhandle of Idaho.

In 1982 voters of this region ratified a constitution for the 51st state of New Columbia.

The state of Nickajack was proposed by anti-secessionists in the state of Tennessee and this state.

If this proposed division of Michigan had become a state would we call the residents Supers rather than Yoopers?

A word from the Book of Mormon meaning honeybee, this proposed state was greatly pared down in size by the US government, eventually becoming the state of Utah.

A proposal was made for this new state to be formed from the peninsula currently split among Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

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The name of this proposed state comprising portions of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana was taken from a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains.

This Tennessee county, named for an army general in the Mexican War, did not want to secede in the Civil War, so they declared themselves a free and independent state of the Union.

No vampires here that we know of, but it was a state proposed from parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.

In 1905 the Cherokee proposed the new state of Sequoyah, but instead the area was merged with this new state.

Talk of making Westylvania the 14th state was squelched when this state passed a law declaring any talk of secession punishable by death.

A proposal for the merger of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands resulted in this name for a new state.

Commissioners from Weld County, Colorado proposed this new state in 2012.

In 2012 Newt Gringrich stated, "When we have 13,000 Americans living (here) they can petition to become a state."