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Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River is a historically significant map produced in 1858 of landmarks, roads, ferry crossings, and plantations along the course of the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans. [1] [2] Cotton and sugar plantations are color-coded with distinct colors. [1]
Alternate title: From Natchez to New Orleans. Hand colored. Cadastral map showing landowners. LC copy 2 imperfect: Pieces missing primarily along outside margin and discolored. Shows plantations with names of owners. LC copy 3 in Maps of the Mississippi River exhibit, Nov. 1973-Jan. 1974, no. 29.
The Mississippi River has the world's fourth-largest drainage basin ("watershed" or "catchment"). The basin covers more than 1,245,000 square miles (3,220,000 km 2), including all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The drainage basin empties into the Gulf of Mexico, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The total catchment of the ...
List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River – crossings south of the Ohio River This page was last edited on 22 March 2022, at 21:08 (UTC). Text is available ...
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Lower Mississippi River from the Ohio River downstream to the Gulf of Mexico. Locations are listed with the left bank (moving downriver) listed first.
The Louisiana Purchase was made, expanding the United States west of the Mississippi River. There was a dispute with West Florida over how much land east of the Mississippi River it included. [22] The purchase extended slightly north of the modern borders, as it was defined only as the watershed of the Mississippi River. [23]
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Map of Mississippi River Basin This page was last edited on 9 January 2025, at 20:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...