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The Mississippi River is the secon longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,320 mi (3,734 km) from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in The Gulf of Mexico. The longest river, a Mississippi tributary, is the Missouri River measuring 2,341 mi (3,767 km).

Trivia about mississippi river

  • Though only the southern end is in Louisiana, this is considered the major physical feature of the state
  • Legend says in 1811 & 1812 earthquakes on the Midwest's New Madrid Fault made this river run backwards
  • 10,000 years of rollin' along are chronicled in Memphis' museum dedicated to this river
  • This river that rises at Lake Itasca drains about 1/8 of the North American continent
  • This river's delta covers more than 12,000 square miles in Louisiana
  • In 1874, a major rail crossing, the Eads Bridge, was completed across this river at St. Louis
  • On August 1, 2007 Minneapolis' I-35W bridge collapsed into this river
  • Iowa's lowest point is a the junction of the Des Moines River & this river that forms Iowa's Eastern border
  • To make way for a railroad, Missouri's Cape Girardeau on this river was blasted out of existence
  • Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about "Life on" this river
  • A museum devoted to this "Ol' Man River" is located on Mud Island in Memphis
  • Leech Lake in Minnesota is the largest of this river's headwater lakes
  • The siege of Vicksburg in 1863 gave the Union control of this river
  • A long, lit-up "M" marks the Hernando de Soto Bridge that crosses this river at Memphis
  • More tornadoes are recorded in the basin of this river than anywhere else in the world
  • Kaskaskia Island may be the only part of Illinois that lies west of this river
  • In April of 1862, David Farragut ordered his fleet up this river
  • The principal drainage system between the Rockies & the Appalachians, it's the "Father of Waters"
  • It begins in Lake Itasca in Minnesota & ends in the Gulf of Mexico
  • In 1848 a shipping canal completed through an old Indian portage linked Chicago with this mighty river system
  • In a letter on the capture of Vicksburg, Lincoln referred to it as the "Father of Waters"
  • In 1811 the New Orleans became the first steamboat to sail down this river
  • Under the 1783 Treaty of Paris, this river became the western boundary of the U.S.
  • This river reaches its widest point, about 4 miles, near Clinton, Iowa
  • A 1795 land fraud case concerned land near the Yazoo, a tributary of this American river
  • For radio stations, it's the body of water in the U.S. that divides most of the Ws from the Ks
  • (Kelly stands in front of a map and diorama) As Secretary of Commerce, Hoover won praise by helping the victims of the horrific flooding of this river in 1927
  • It flows past Kentucky's southwest corner &, later, Tennessee's
  • In 1862 CSA Gen. Beauregard wanted Island No. 10 in this body of water held at all costs; didn't happen
  • The river forms most of Arkansas's eastern border
  • In an 1830 treaty, the Choctaw nation ceded all of its land east of this river to the U.S.

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