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Wyoming: capital is in the small area of useful farmland, as opposed to non-arable mountains. Also close to Colorado, which has a lot more useful farmland and general economic activity.
Nebraska and Kansas: capital is close to the Missouri River, where a lot of trade occurs.
Virginia: capital is ~~close to DC.~~ not where this map indicates.
Florida: ??? I guess it's just generally closer to the mainland.
Alaska: Capital is far south for the relatively tropical climate.
The ports of Pensecola and St Augustine served as the capitals of East and West Florida territories in the years before Florida became a unified state. The delegations trying to unify Florida got tired traveling all the way to and from each capital so they met in the middle at the site of a destroyed Apalachee settlement (courtesy of Andrew Jackson a few years earlier) and threw up a crude government building