title: MatPlotLib plot does not have clear boundaries, weird data points
body: <p>I'm attempting to map data, but the map output does not have clear boundaries and the data displayed is not continuous as it should be.
  The first map below uses similar data with the exact code as the second map, so I don't know what is going wrong. I was wondering if there was a way to format the code so the plot is similar in style to the first one.
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/ZWF1K8S/Screen-Shot-2021-10-28-at-2-13-11-PM.png" alt="link to png image of plots" /></p>
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  f, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(12,6))
  ax = states_00_14.plot(column='num_fires', cmap='OrRd',
  legend=True, ax=ax)
  lims = plt.axis('equal')
  f.suptitle('US Wildfire count per state in 2000-2014')
  ax.set_axis_off()
  </code></pre>
  <p>I'm very new to python and matplotlib so I basically have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I'm working in a Jupyter Notebook if that is relevant. Thanks in advance!</p>