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For over a century prior to the organization of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, the name St. Pierre (St. Peter) had been generally applied to the river by French and English explorers and writers. Minnesota River is shown on the 1757 edition of Mitchell Map as "Ouadebameniſsouté [Watpá Mnísota] or R. St. Peter". On June 19, 1852, acting ...
Mississippi River. St. Croix River (Minnesota, Wisconsin), 169 mi-long (272 km) Sunrise River, 39.1 mi-long (62.9 km) North Branch Sunrise River; West Branch Sunrise River; South Branch Sunrise River; Snake River, 104 mi-long (167 km) Groundhouse River, 39.8 mi-long (64.1 km) South Fork Groundhouse River; West Fork Groundhouse River
The Minnesota River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of nearly 17,000 square miles (44,000 km 2 ), 14,751 square miles (38,200 km 2 ) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 km 2 ) in South Dakota and Iowa.
The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area is a 72-mile (116 km) and 54,000-acre (22,000 ha) protected corridor along the Mississippi River through Minneapolis–Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota, from the cities of Dayton and Ramsey to just downstream of Hastings.
MN 5 – Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, St. Paul: Minnesota River: 198.424– 199.204: 319.332– 320.588: Mendota Bridge: Dakota: Mendota Heights: 199.357: 320.834: MN 62 east: Eastern end of MN 62 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance: 200.141: 322.096: MN 13 / Great River Road (National Route) – MN 62
The river valley in Minneapolis and Saint Paul is the only gorge along the entire 2,320-mile (3,730 km) length of the Mississippi River [5] [3] with bluffs rising as high as 150 feet (46 m). [6] The river through the gorge was a series of rapids until the early 1900s when it was reconfigured for commercial navigation with installment of locks ...
It is the final bridge over the Minnesota River before the Minnesota flows into the Mississippi River at the "Meeting of the waters" or "Mendota" in the Dakota language. Traffic on the north end of the bridge may turn onto the Fort Road Bridge to cross the Mississippi River into Saint Paul, Minnesota. The skylines of both Minneapolis and Saint ...
The Minnesota River now runs in the valley created by the River Warren. When the river reached present-day St. Paul, the massive volume of water quickly washed out the till, sand, gravel, and sedimentary rock that had filled one of the troughs. The result was the Warren River Falls, plunging 175 feet (53 m) into a deep gorge.