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1 day ago · The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds on both sides of the Mississippi River. Their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 to 1500.
5 days ago · St. Louis, city, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River (bridged there at several points) opposite East St. Louis, Illinois, just south of the confluence of the Missouri River.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Missouri is a constituent state of the U.S. It is bordered by Iowa to the north; Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee to the east; Arkansas to the south; and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. The state’s major cities are Kansas City in the west and St. Louis in the east. Its capital is Jefferson City.
23 hours ago · The detailed map shows the US state of Missouri with boundaries, the location of the state capital Jefferson City, major cities and populated places, rivers and lakes, interstate highways, principal highways, and railroads.
1 day ago · The Mississippi River is known as the Middle Mississippi from the Upper Mississippi River's confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri, for 190 miles (310 km) to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. The Middle Mississippi is relatively free-flowing.
1 day ago · There it makes its final eastward turn, flowing until it joins the Mississippi River about 10 miles (16 km) north of St. Louis. The river’s drainage basin occupies about 529,400 square miles (1,371,100 square km) of the Great Plains, of which 2,550 square miles (16,840 square km) are in southern Canada.
2 days ago · An hour south of St. Louis and on the west bank of the Mississippi River, Ste. Genevieve holds the distinction of being Missouri's oldest permanent European settlement. Founded in 1735 by French Canadians , the top attraction here is Felix Valle House State Historic Site, a preserved 1818 Federal-style home featuring exhibits relating to the town's founding.
