This section shows the Mississippi River as it flows south into the metropolitan area. Click the "1840" button to see the information published on Joseph Nicollet's "mother map." Click on an area to zoom in. Navigate using the arrows in the map margin.

This is the most northwesterly of the present nine overlapping panels of the combined 1:250,000 maps. Future revisions will expand map coverage toward the headwaters of the Mississippi. For more information about the map see the lower left-hand frame.