A quick drive along the Mississippi Gulf Coastline will take you through cities like Biloxi, Gulfport, and D’iberville. These ...

At ports along the mouth of the Mississippi ... sediment pulled from the bottom of the river? The dirt will be used as an environmental antidote. Louisiana has long struggled with shoreline ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi ... at the headwaters, the river’s depth drops dramatically once you get close to its mouth. The deepest point, near ...

Although the revisions of the map ... Louisiana was at stake: the whole Mississippi Valley,—the land between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi, as well as the territory across the river ...

and rivers contained in Louisiana from the mouth of the great river called Ohio, and along the whole extent of the Mississippi River and the rivers that empty into it." But La Salle had powerful ...

April 9: French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and a small party arrive at the mouth of the Mississippi River. La Salle claims the region and names it Louisiana in honor of King ...

When Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana, it pushes a 14-to-17-foot surge of seawater up the Mississippi River as well as through ... Canal farther east. At the mouth of the 17th Street Canal ...

The U.S. map leaves us with tons of questions. Some of the borders are so completely WEIRD you have to wonder what the ...

NHC issued a Storm Surge Warning from east of High Island, Texas, east to the Mississippi River, Louisiana ... According to NHC, the water at the mouth of the Mississippi River, La.

Across the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama ... Storm surge warnings are also still in effect for the mouth of the Pearl River to the Mississippi/Alabama Border, Lake Maurepas and ...

Maps help geographers to plot the course that rivers run from their source to the mouth. Sometimes it can be very difficult to plot the exact start of a river in the hills and mountains and most ...

The sugar cane that grew along the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana used to taste different ... Lavigne's region of the country with archival maps of plantations, highlighting how ...