Mississippi River Wikipedia. Mississippi River. Ojibwe Misi ziibi1,Dakota Mnoethka2,Myaamia Mihsi siipiiwi3,Cheyenne Maxeomete4,Kiowa Xsu5,Arapaho Beesniicie6,Pawnee Kickatit7Name origin Ojibwe word misi ziibi, meaning Great River, or gichi ziibi, meaning Big RiverNickname Old Man RiverCountry. Giger Calendar of the Fantastique 1995, Abrams, H. R Giger 9781587241406 1587241404 Good Harbor, Anita Diamant 9781576262498 1576262499 Local. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Free Engineering Books list of freely available engineering textbooks, manuals, lecture notes, and other documents. United States. States. Minnesota,Wisconsin,Iowa,Illinois,Missouri,Kentucky,Tennessee,Arkansas,Mississippi,Louisiana. Tributaries  left. St. Croix River,Wisconsin River,Rock River,Illinois River,Kaskaskia River,Ohio River  right. 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Morphostructural arrangement of the Sierra de las Cruces, central Mxico. Coordinates 2. 90. N8. 91. 51. 2W 2. N 8. 9. 2. 53. 33W 2. Length. 2,3. 20 mi 3,7. Basin. 1,1. 51,0. Dischargefor mouth max and min at Baton Rouge, LA  average. Mississippi River basin. The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. The stream is entirely within the United States although its drainage basin reaches into Canada, its source is in northern Minnesota and it flows generally south for 2,3. Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippis watershed drains all or parts of 3. U. S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largestriver in the world by discharge. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Native Americans long lived along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Most were hunter gatherers, but some, such as the Mound Builders, formed prolific agricultural societies. The arrival of Europeans in the 1. The river served first as a barrier, forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States, and then as a vital transportation artery and communications link. In the 1. 9th century, during the height of the ideology of manifest destiny, the Mississippi and several western tributaries, most notably the Missouri, formed pathways for the western expansion of the United States. Formed from thick layers of the rivers silt deposits, the Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country, which resulted in the rivers storied steamboat era. During the American Civil War, the Mississippis capture by Union forces marked a turning point towards victory due to the rivers importance as a route of trade and travel, not least to the Confederacy. Because of substantial growth of cities and the larger ships and barges that supplanted riverboats, the first decades of the 2. Since modern development of the basin began, the Mississippi has also seen its share of pollution and environmental problems most notably large volumes of agricultural runoff, which has led to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone off the Delta. In recent years, the river has shown a steady shift towards the Atchafalaya River channel in the Delta a course change would be an economic disaster for the port city of New Orleans. Name and significanceeditThe word Mississippi itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe Ojibwe or Algonquin name for the river, Misi ziibi Great River. In the 1. 8th century, the river was the primary western boundary of the young United States, and since the countrys expansion westward, the Mississippi River has been widely considered a convenient if approximate dividing line between the Eastern, Southern, and Midwestern United States, and the Western United States. This is exemplified by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the phrase Trans Mississippi as used in the name of the Trans Mississippi Exposition. It is common to qualify a regionally superlative landmark in relation to it, such as the highest peak east of the Mississippi1. Mississippi. 1. 6 The FCC also uses it as the dividing line for broadcast callsigns, which begin with W to the east and K to the west, mixing together in media markets along the river. Physical geographyeditThe geographical setting of the Mississippi River includes considerations of the course of the river itself, its watershed, its outflow, its prehistoric and historic course changes, and possibilities of future course changes. The New Madrid Seismic Zone along the river is also noteworthy. These various basic geographical aspects of the river in turn underlie its human history and present uses of the waterway and its adjacent lands. DivisionseditThe Mississippi River can be divided into three sections the Upper Mississippi, the river from its headwaters to the confluence with the Missouri River the Middle Mississippi, which is downriver from the Missouri to the Ohio River and the Lower Mississippi, which flows from the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Upper Mississippiedit. The beginning of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca 2. Mississippi head of navigation, St. Anthony Falls. The Upper Mississippi runs from its headwaters to its confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri. It is divided into two sections The headwaters, 4. Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota and. A navigable channel, formed by a series of man made lakes between Minneapolis and St. Louis, Missouri, some 6. The source of the Upper Mississippi branch is traditionally accepted as Lake Itasca, 1,4. Itasca State Park in Clearwater County, Minnesota. The name Itasca was chosen to designate the true head of the Mississippi River as a combination of the last four letters of the Latin word for truth veritas and the first two letters of the Latin word for head caput. However, the lake is in turn fed by a number of smaller streams. From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the waterways flow is moderated by 4. Fourteen of these dams are located above Minneapolis in the headwaters region and serve multiple purposes, including power generation and recreation. The remaining 2. 9 dams, beginning in downtown Minneapolis, all contain locks and were constructed to improve commercial navigation of the upper river. Taken as a whole, these 4. Beginning just below Saint Paul, Minnesota, and continuing throughout the upper and lower river, the Mississippi is further controlled by thousands of wing dikes that moderate the rivers flow in order to maintain an open navigation channel and prevent the river from eroding its banks. The head of navigation on the Mississippi is the Coon Rapids Dam in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Before it was built in 1. Saint Cloud, Minnesota, depending on river conditions. The uppermost lock and dam on the Upper Mississippi River is the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in Minneapolis. Above the dam, the rivers elevation is 7. Below the dam, the rivers elevation is 7. This 4. 9 foot 1. Mississippi River locks and dams. The origin of the dramatic drop is a waterfall preserved adjacent to the lock under an apron of concrete.