A report on St. Louis and Mississippi River

The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border.

The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.

Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of Southwestern Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2341 mi before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.

It originally covered an expansive territory that included most of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River and stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains.

French colonists who migrated after they lost control over New France founded outposts such as the important settlement of St. Louis (1764).

The Meramec River, sometimes spelled Maramec River, is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3980 mi2 while wandering 218 mi from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River near St. Louis at Arnold and Oakville.

On the northern Ozark border are the cities of St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri.

Originally, in the decades prior to the French and Indian War, aux Arkansas referred to the trading post at Arkansas Post, located in wooded Arkansas Delta lowland area above the confluence of the Arkansas River with the Mississippi River.

Acquisition of Louisiana was a long-term goal of President Thomas Jefferson, who was especially eager to gain control of the crucial Mississippi River port of New Orleans.

On March 9 and 10, 1804, another ceremony, commemorated as Three Flags Day, was conducted in St. Louis, to transfer ownership of Upper Louisiana from Spain to France, and then from France to the United States.

Founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and settlers from east of the river, it was the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River in present-day Missouri.

The Spanish moved the capital of Upper Louisiana from Fort de Chartres fifty miles upriver to St. Louis.

It is directly across the Mississippi River from Downtown St. Louis, Missouri and the Gateway Arch National Park.

The Mississippian culture rulers organized thousands of workers to construct complex earthwork mounds at what later became St. Louis and East St. Louis.

Most of the town was destroyed in April 1881 by flooding, as the Mississippi River shifted eastward to a new channel, taking over the lower 10 mi of the Kaskaskia River.

Rather than live under British rule after France ceded the territory east of the river, many French-speaking people from Kaskaskia and other colonial towns had moved west of the Mississippi to Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis, and other areas.

Gateway Arch National Park is an American national park located in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

the first civil government west of the Mississippi River; and