The following list of reference points shall be used to identify the boundaries of the major and smaller television markets (defined in §76.5). Where a community's reference point is not given, the geographic coordinates of the main post office in the community shall be used.

Open Table
State and community Latitude Longitude
Alabama:
Anniston 33°3949 85°4947
Birmingham 33°3101 86°4836
Decatur 34°3635 86°5845
Demopolis 32°3056 87°5007
Dothan 31°1327 85°2335
Dozier 31°2930 86°2159
Florence 34°4805 87°4031
Huntsville 34°4418 86°3519
Louisville 31°4700 85°3309
Mobile 30°4136 88°0233
Montgomery 32°2233 86°1831
Mount Cheaha State Park 33°2926 85°4830
Selma 24°2426 87°0115
Tuscaloosa 33°1205 87°3344
Alaska:
Anchorage 61°1309 149°5329
College 64°5122 147°4838
Fairbanks 64°5035 147°4151
Juneau 58°1806 134°2509
Sitka 57°0258 135°2012
Arizona:
Flagstaff 35°1154 111°3902
Mesa 33°2454 111°4941
Nogales 31°2014 110°5612
Phoenix 33°2712 112°0428
Tucson 32°1315 110°5808
Yuma 32°4316 114°3701
Arkansas:
El Dorado 33°1239 92°3940
Fayetteville 36°0341 94°0938
Fort Smith 35°2310 94°2536
Jonesboro 35°5014 90°4211
Little Rock 34°4442 92°1637
California:
Bakersfield 35°2231 119°0116
Chico 39°4407 121°4957
Concord 37°5846 122°0151
Corona 33°5235 117°3356
El Centro 32°4725 115°3245
Eureka 40°4808 124°0946
Fontana 34°0545 117°2629
Fresno 36°4412 119°4711
Guasti 34°0348 117°3510
Hanford 36°1951 119°3848
Los Angeles 34°0315 118°1428
Modesto 37°3826 120°5944
Monterey 36°3544 121°5339
Oakland 37°4803 122°1554
Palm Springs 33°4922 116°3246
Redding 40°3457 122°2334
Sacramento 38°3457 121°2941
Salinas 36°4024 121°3925
San Bernardino 34°0630 117°1728
San Diego 32°4253 117°0921
San Francisco 37°4639 122°2440
San Jose 37°2016 121°5324
San Luis Obispo 35°1649 120°3934
San Mateo 37°3408 122°1916
Santa Barbara 34°2518 119°4155
Santa Maria 34°5702 120°2610
Stockton 37°5730 121°1716
Tulare 36°1231 119°2035
Ventura 34°1647 119°1722
Visalia 36°1946 119°1730
Colorado:
Colorado Springs 38°5007 104°4916
Denver 39°4458 104°5922
Durango 37°1629 107°5225
Grand Junction 39°0406 108°3354
Montrose 38°2844 107°5231
Pueblo 38°1617 104°3633
Sterling 40°3729 103°1225
Connecticut:
Bridgeport 41°1049 73°1122
Hartford 41°4612 72°4049
New Britain 41°4002 72°4708
New Haven 41°1825 72°5530
Norwich 41°3136 72°0431
Waterbury 41°3313 73°0231
Delaware:
Wilmington 39°4446 75°3251
District of Columbia:
Washington 38°5351 77°0033
Florida:
Clearwater 27°5756 82°4751
Daytona Beach 29°1244 81°0110
Fort Lauderdale 26°0711 80°0834
Fort Myers 26°3842 81°5206
Fort Pierce 27°2648 80°1938
Gainesville 29°3856 82°1919
Jacksonville 30°1944 81°3942
Largo 27°5454 82°4732
Leesburg 28°4843 81°5230
Melbourne 28°0441 80°3629
Miami 25°4637 80°1132
Ocala 29°1134 82°0814
Orlando 28°3242 81°2238
Panama City 30°0924 85°3947
Pensacola 30°2451 87°1256
St. Petersburg 27°4618 82°3816
Sarasota 27°2005 82°3229
Tallahassee 30°2630 84°1650
Tampa 27°5658 82°2726
West Palm Beach 26°4236 80°0305
Georgia:
Albany 31°3436 84°0922
Athens 33°5734 83°2239
Atlanta 33°4510 84°2337
Augusta 33°2820 81°5800
Chatsworth 34°4608 84°4610
Cochran 32°2318 83°2118
Columbus 32°2807 84°5924
Dawson 31°4633 84°2620
Macon 32°5012 83°3736
Pelham 31°0742 84°0902
Savannah 32°0442 81°0537
Thomasville 30°5025 83°5859
Waycross 31°1219 82°2147
Wrens 33°1221 82°2323
Guam:
Agana 13°2823 144°4500
Hawaii:
Hilo 19°4342 155°0530
Honolulu 21°1836 157°5148
Wailuku 20°5321 156°3027
Idaho:
Boise 43°3707 116°1158
Idaho Falls 43°2939 112°0228
Lewiston 46°2505 117°0110
Moscow 46°4358 116°5954
Pocatello 42°5138 112°2701
Twin Falls 42°3325 114°2821
Illinois:
Aurora 41°4522 88°1856
Bloomington 40°2858 88°5932
Carbondale 37°4338 89°1300
Champaign 40°0705 88°1448
Chicago 41°5228 87°3822
Decatur 39°5037 88°5711
Elgin 42°0214 88°1653
Freeport 42°1757 89°3707
Harrisburg 37°4420 88°3225
Jacksonville 39°4403 90°1344
Joliet 41°3137 88°0452
La Salle 41°1949 89°0544
Moline 41°3031 90°3049
Mount Vernon 38°1829 88°5426
Olney 38°4347 88°0500
Peoria 40°4142 89°3533
Quincy 39°5559 91°2412
Rockford 42°1607 89°0548
Rock Island 41°3040 90°3424
Springfield 39°4758 89°3851
Urbana 40°0641 88°1313
Indiana:
Bloomington 39°0956 86°3152
Elkhart 41°4056 85°5815
Evansville 37°5820 87°3421
Fort Wayne 41°0421 85°0826
Gary 41°3559 87°2007
Hammond 41°3513 87°2743
Indianapolis 39°4607 86°0946
Lafayette 40°2511 86°5339
Marion 40°3317 85°3949
Muncie 40°1128 85°2316
Richmond 39°4949 84°5326
Roanoke 40°5750 85°2230
St. John 41°2700 87°2813
South Bend 41°4033 86°1501
Terre Haute 39°2803 87°2426
Vincennes 38°4052 87°3112
Iowa:
Ames 42°0136 93°3644
Cedar Rapids 41°5848 91°3948
Davenport 41°3124 90°3421
Des Moines 41°3514 93°3700
Dubuque 42°2955 90°4008
Fort Dodge 42°3012 94°1105
Iowa City 41°3937 91°3152
Mason City 43°0915 93°1200
Sioux City 42°2946 96°2430
Waterloo 42°2940 92°2020
Kansas:
Ensign 37°3848 100°1400
Garden City 37°5754 100°5220
Goodland 39°2053 101°4235
Great Bend 38°2204 98°4558
Hays 38°5216 99°1957
Hutchinson 38°0311 97°5520
Pittsburg 37°2450 94°4211
Salina 38°5036 97°3646
Topeka 39°0316 95°4023
Wichita 37°4130 97°2016
Kentucky:
Ashland 38°2836 82°3823
Bowling Green 36°5941 86°2633
Covington 39°0500 84°3029
Elizabethtown 37°4138 85°5135
Hazard 37°1454 83°1131
Lexington 38°0250 84°2946
Louisville 38°1447 85°4549
Madisonville 37°1945 87°2954
Morehead 38°1053 83°2608
Murray 36°3635 88°1839
Newport 39°0528 84°2920
Owensboro 37°4627 87°0646
Owenton 38°3211 84°5016
Paducah 37°0513 88°3556
Pikesville 37°2849 82°3109
Somerset 37°0535 84°3617
Louisiana:
Alexandria 31°1833 92°2647
Baton Rouge 30°2658 91°1100
Houma 29°3534 90°4309
Lafayette 30°1324 92°0106
Lake Charles 30°1345 93°1252
Monroe 32°3002 92°0655
New Orleans 29°5653 90°0410
Shreveport 32°3046 93°4458
West Monroe 32°3051 92°0813
Maine:
Augusta 44°1853 69°4629
Bangor 44°4813 68°4618
Calais 45°1104 67°1643
Orono 44°5315 68°4012
Poland Spring 44°0142 70°2140
Portland 43°3933 70°1519
Presque Isle 46°4057 68°0052
Maryland:
Baltimore 39°1726 76°3645
Cumberland 39°3901 78°4545
Hagerstown 39°3839 77°4315
Salisbury 38°2156 75°3556
Massachusetts:
Adams 42°3730 73°0705
Boston 42°2124 71°0325
Cambridge 42°2158 71°0624
Greenfield 42°3515 72°3554
New Bedford 41°3813 70°5541
Springfield 42°0621 72°3532
Worcester 42°1537 71°4817
Michigan:
Allen Park 42°1512 83°1257
Battle Creek 42°1858 85°1048
Bay City 43°3604 83°5315
Cadillac 44°1510 85°2352
Cheboygan 45°3838 84°2838
Detroit 42°1948 83°0257
Escanaba 45°4445 87°0318
Flint 43°0050 83°4133
Grand Rapids 42°5803 85°4013
Jackson 42°1443 84°2422
Kalamazoo 42°1729 85°3514
Lansing 42°4401 84°3315
Marquette 46°3237 87°2343
Mount Pleasant 43°1612 84°4631
Muskegon 43°1417 86°1502
Onondaga 42°2641 84°3343
Saginaw 43°2552 83°5605
Sault Ste. Marie 46°2958 84°2037
Traverse City 44°4547 85°3725
University Center 43°3331 83°5909
Minnesota:
Alexandria 45°5306 95°2239
Appleton 45°1200 96°0102
Austin 43°3957 92°5820
Duluth 46°4656 92°0624
Hibbing 47°2543 92°5621
Mankato 44°0949 94°0009
Minneapolis 44°5857 93°1543
Rochester 44°0121 92°2803
St. Cloud 45°3335 94°0938
St. Paul 44°5650 93°0511
Walker 47°0557 94°3512
Mississippi:
Biloxi 30°2343 88°5308
Bude 31°2746 90°5034
Columbus 33°2940 88°2533
Greenwood 33°3105 90°1055
Gulfport 30°2204 89°0536
Jackson 32°1756 90°1106
Laurel 31°4140 89°0748
Meridian 32°2157 88°4202
Oxford 34°2200 89°3107
State College 33°2718 88°4713
Tupelo 34°1526 88°4230
Missouri:
Cape Girardeau 37°1829 89°3129
Columbia 38°5703 92°1946
Hannibal 39°4224 91°2245
Jefferson City 38°3440 92°1024
Joplin 37°0526 94°3050
Kansas City 39°0456 94°3520
Kirksville 40°1137 92°3458
Poplar Bluff 36°4520 90°2338
St. Joseph 39°4557 94°5102
St. Louis 38°3745 90°1222
Sedalia 38°4208 93°1326
Springfield 37°1303 93°1732
Montana:
Anaconda 46°0740 112°5712
Billings 45°4700 108°3004
Butte 46°0106 112°3211
Glendive 47°0642 104°4302
Great Falls 47°2933 111°1823
Helena 46°3533 112°0224
Kalispell 48°1145 114°1844
Miles City 46°2434 105°5030
Missoula 46°5223 113°5929
Nebraska:
Albion 41°4123 97°5953
Alliance 42°0604 102°5208
Bassett 42°3500 99°3210
Grand Island 40°5533 98°2023
Hastings 40°3521 98°2320
Hayes Center 40°3036 101°0118
Hay Springs 42°4103 102°4122
Kearney 40°4158 99°0453
Lexington 40°4630 99°4441
Lincoln 40°4859 96°4215
McCook 40°1202 100°3732
Merriman 42°5507 101°4202
Norfolk 42°0156 97°2442
North Platte 41°0814 100°4543
Omaha 41°1542 95°5614
Scottsbluff 41°5140 103°3900
Superior 40°0112 98°0400
Nevada:
Elko 40°5000 115°4541
Henderson 36°0200 114°5857
Las Vegas 36°1020 115°0837
Reno 39°3127 119°4840
New Hampshire:
Berlin 44°2820 71°1043
Durham 43°0802 70°5535
Hanover 43°4203 72°1724
Keene 42°5602 72°1644
Lebanon 43°3834 72°1512
Littleton 44°1822 71°4613
Manchester 42°5928 71°2741
New Jersey:
Atlantic City 39°2132 74°2553
Burlington 40°0421 74°5147
Camden 39°5645 75°0720
Glen Ridge 40°4816 74°1214
Linden 40°3757 74°1522
Newark 40°4414 74°1019
New Brunswick 40°2938 74°2649
Paterson 40°5451 74°0951
Trenton 40°1316 74°4528
Vineland 39°2913 75°0117
Wildwood 38°5918 74°4843
New Mexico:
Albuquerque 35°0501 106°3905
Carlsbad 32°2509 104°1347
Clovis 34°2411 103°1208
Portales 34°1058 103°2010
Roswell 33°2347 104°3126
New York:
Albany 42°3901 73°4501
Binghamton 42°0603 75°5447
Buffalo 42°5252 78°5221
Carthage 43°5850 75°3626
Elmira 42°0526 76°4822
Garden City 40°4326 73°3803
Ithaca 42°2633 76°2942
Jamestown 42°0545 79°1440
New York 40°4506 73°5939
North Pole 44°2359 73°5100
Norwood 44°4500 75°5939
Oneonta 42°2721 75°0342
Patchogue 40°4556 73°0042
Plattsburgh 44°4203 73°2707
Riverhead 40°5506 72°3951
Rochester 43°0941 77°3621
Schenectady 42°4852 73°5624
Syracuse 43°0304 76°0914
Utica 43°0612 75°1333
Watertown 43°5830 75°5448
North Carolina:
Asheville 35°3542 82°3326
Chapel Hill 35°5451 79°0311
Charlotte 35°1344 80°5045
Columbia 35°5506 76°1504
Concord 35°2429 80°3445
Durham 35°5948 78°5400
Fayetteville 35°0312 78°5254
Greensboro 36°0417 79°4725
Greenville 35°3649 77°2222
Hickory 35°4354 81°2020
High Point 35°5714 80°0015
Jacksonville 34°4500 77°2554
Linville 36°0406 81°5216
New Bern 35°0633 77°0223
Raleigh 35°4638 78°3821
Washington 35°3235 77°0316
Wilmington 34°1414 77°5658
Winston-Salem 36°0552 80°1442
North Dakota:
Bismark 46°4823 100°4717
Devils Lake 48°0642 98°5129
Dickinson 46°5255 102°4706
Fargo 46°5230 96°4718
Minot 48°1409 101°1738
Pembina 48°5800 97°1437
Valley City 46°5531 98°0004
Williston 48°0847 103°3659
Ohio:
Akron 41°0500 81°3044
Athens 39°1938 82°0609
Bowling Green 41°2237 83°3903
Canton 40°4750 81°2237
Cincinnati 39°0607 84°3035
Cleveland 41°2951 81°4150
Columbus 39°5747 83°0017
Dayton 39°4532 84°1143
Kettering 39°4122 84°1007
Lima 40°4429 84°0634
Lorain 41°2748 82°1023
Marion 40°3514 83°0736
Newark 40°0335 82°2415
Oxford 39°3028 84°4426
Portsmouth 38°4406 82°5939
Springfield 39°5538 83°4829
Steubenville 40°2142 80°3653
Toledo 41°3914 83°3239
Youngstown 41°0557 80°3902
Zanesville 39°5659 82°0056
Oklahoma:
Ada 34°4624 96°4036
Ardmore 34°1018 97°0750
Lawton 34°3627 98°2341
Oklahoma City 35°2826 97°3104
Sayre 35°1734 99°3823
Tulsa 36°0912 95°5934
Oregon:
Coos Bay 43°2202 124°1309
Corvallis 44°3410 123°1612
Eugene 44°0316 123°0530
Klamath Falls 42°1332 121°4632
La Grande 45°1947 118°0545
Medford 42°1933 122°5231
Portland 45°3106 122°4035
Roseburg 43°1234 123°2026
Salem 44°5621 123°0159
Pennsylvania:
Allentown 40°3611 75°2806
Altoona 40°3055 78°2403
Bethlehem 40°3757 75°2136
Clearfield 41°0120 78°2610
Erie 42°0715 80°0457
Harrisburg 40°1543 76°5259
Hershey 40°1704 76°3901
Johnstown 40°1935 78°5503
Lancaster 40°0225 76°1829
Philadelphia 39°5658 75°0921
Pittsburgh 40°2619 80°0000
Reading 40°2009 75°5540
Scranton 41°2432 75°3946
Wilkes-Barre 41°1432 75°5317
York 39°5735 76°4336
Puerto Rico:
Aguadilla 18°2553 67°0918
Arecibo 18°2826 66°4339
Caguas 18°1359 66°0206
Fajardo 18°1935 65°3921
Mayaguez 18°1216 67°0836
Ponce 18°0051 66°3658
San Juan 18°2655 66°0355
Rhode Island:
Providence 41°4932 71°2441
South Carolina:
Allendale 33°0030 81°1826
Anderson 34°3006 82°3854
Charleston 32°4635 79°5553
Columbia 34°0002 81°0200
Florence 34°1149 79°4606
Greenville 34°5050 82°2401
Spartanburg 34°5703 81°5606
South Dakota:
Aberdeen 45°2731 98°2903
Brookings 44°1838 96°4753
Florence 45°0314 97°1935
Lead 44°2107 103°4603
Mitchell 43°4248 98°0136
Pierre 44°2206 100°2057
Rapid City 44°0452 103°1311
Reliance 43°5245 99°3618
Sioux Falls 43°3235 96°4335
Vermillion 42°4652 96°5535
Tennessee:
Chattanooga 35°0241 85°1832
Jackson 35°3648 88°4915
Johnson City 36°1904 82°2056
Kingsport 36°3257 82°3344
Knoxville 35°5739 83°5507
Lexington 35°3858 88°2331
Memphis 35°0846 90°0313
Nashville 36°0933 86°4655
Sneedville 36°3146 83°1304
Texas:
Abilene 32°2705 99°4351
Amarillo 35°1227 101°5004
Austin 30°1609 97°4437
Beaumont 30°0520 94°0609
Belton 31°0331 97°2739
Big Spring 32°1503 101°2838
Bryan 30°3848 96°2131
College Station 30°3705 96°2041
Corpus Christi 27°4751 97°2345
Dallas 32°4709 96°4737
El Paso 31°4536 106°2911
Fort Worth 32°4455 97°1944
Galveston 29°1810 94°4743
Harlingen 26°1129 97°4135
Houston 29°4526 95°2137
Laredo 27°3022 99°3030
Longview 32°2824 94°4345
Lubbock 33°3505 101°5033
Lufkin 31°2014 94°4321
Midland 31°5954 102°0431
Monahans 31°3516 102°5326
Nacogdoches 31°3613 94°3920
Odessa 31°5049 102°2201
Port Arthur 29°5209 93°5601
Richardson 32°5706 96°4405
Rosenberg 29°3330 95°4815
San Angelo 31°2739 100°2603
San Antonio 29°2537 98°2906
Sweetwater 32°2824 100°2418
Temple 31°0602 97°2022
Texarkana 33°2529 94°0234
Tyler 32°2121 95°1752
Victoria 28°4801 97°0006
Waco 31°3312 97°0800
Weslaco 26°0924 97°5933
Wichita Falls 33°5434 98°2928
Utah:
Logan 41°4403 111°5011
Ogden 41°1331 111°5821
Provo 40°1407 111°3934
Salt Lake City 40°4523 111°5326
Vermont:
Burlington 44°2834 73°1246
Rutland 43°3629 72°5856
St. Johnsbury 44°2516 72°0113
Windsor 43°2838 72°2332
Virginia:
Bristol 36°3548 82°1104
Charlottesville 38°0152 78°2850
Goldvein 38°2654 77°3919
Hampton 37°0132 76°2032
Harrisonburg 38°2701 78°5207
Lynchburg 37°2451 79°0837
Norfolk 36°5110 76°1721
Norton 36°5605 82°3731
Petersburg 37°1340 77°2415
Portsmouth 36°5012 76°1754
Richmond 37°3215 77°2609
Roanoke 37°1613 79°5644
Staunton 38°0902 79°0434
Virgin Islands:
Charlotte Amalie 18°2036 64°5553
Christiansted 17°4444 64°4221
Washington:
Bellingham 48°4502 122°2836
Kennewick 46°1228 119°0832
Lakewood Center 47°0737 122°3115
Pasco 46°1350 119°0527
Pullman 46°4342 117°1046
Richland 46°1636 119°1621
Seattle 47°3632 122°2012
Spokane 47°3932 117°2533
Tacoma 47°1459 122°2615
Yakima 46°3609 120°3039
West Virginia:
Bluefield 37°1529 81°1320
Charleston 38°2101 81°3752
Clarksburg 39°1650 80°2038
Grandview 37°4928 81°0420
Huntington 38°2512 82°2633
Morgantown 39°3741 79°5728
Oak Hill 37°5831 81°0845
Parkersburg 39°1557 81°3346
Weston 39°0219 80°2805
Wheeling 40°0403 80°4320
Wisconsin:
Eau Claire 44°4831 91°2949
Fond Du Lac 43°4635 88°2652
Green Bay 44°3048 88°0050
Janesville 42°4052 89°0139
Kenosha 42°3504 87°4914
La Crosse 43°4848 91°1502
Madison 43°0423 89°2255
Milwaukee 43°0219 87°5415
Rhinelander 45°3809 89°2450
Superior 46°4314 92°0607
Wausau 44°5730 89°3740
Wyoming:
Casper 42°5100 106°1922
Cheyenne 41°0809 104°4907
Rawlins 41°4723 107°1437
Riverton 43°0129 108°2303

[37 FR 3278, Feb. 12, 1972, as amended at 37 FR 13866, July 14, 1972; 51 FR 18451, May 20, 1986; 51 FR 44608, Dec. 11, 1986; 54 FR 25716, June 19, 1989; 56 FR 49707, Oct. 1, 1991]


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