Communities Along The Mississippi River

Many of the communities along the Mississippi River are listed below. They have either historic significance or cultural lore connecting them to the river. They are ordered from the beginning of the river to its end.

Bemidji, Minnesota Grand Rapids, Minnesota Jacobson, Minnesota Palisade, Minnesota Aitkin, Minnesota Riverton, Minnesota Brainerd, Minnesota Fort Ripley, Minnesota Little Falls, Minnesota Sartell, Minnesota St. Cloud, Minnesota Coon Rapids, Minnesota Monticello, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Saint Paul, Minnesota Nininger, Minnesota Hastings, Minnesota Prescott, Wisconsin Prairie Island, Minnesota Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin Red Wing, Minnesota Hager City, Wisconsin Maiden Rock, Wisconsin Stockholm, Wisconsin Lake City, Minnesota Maple Springs, Minnesota Camp Lacupolis, Minnesota Pepin, Wisconsin Reads Landing, Minnesota Wabasha, Minnesota Nelson, Wisconsin Alma, Wisconsin Buffalo City, Wisconsin Weaver, Minnesota Minneiska, Minnesota Fountain City, Wisconsin Winona, Minnesota Homer, Minnesota

Trempealeau, Wisconsin Dakota, Minnesota Dresbach, Minnesota La Crescent, Minnesota La Crosse, Wisconsin Brownsville, Minnesota Stoddard, Wisconsin Genoa, Wisconsin Victory, Wisconsin Potosi, Wisconsin De Soto, Wisconsin Preston, Iowa Lansing, Iowa Ferryville, Wisconsin Lynxville, Wisconsin Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Marquette, Iowa McGregor, Iowa Wyalusing, Wisconsin Guttenberg, Iowa Cassville, Wisconsin Dubuque, Iowa Galena, Illinois Bellevue, Iowa Savanna, Illinois Sabula, Iowa Fulton, Illinois Clinton, Iowa Cordova, Illinois LeClaire, Iowa Bettendorf, Iowa East Moline, Illinois Moline, Illinois Davenport, Iowa Rock Island, Illinois Buffalo, Iowa Muscatine, Iowa New Boston, Illinois Keithsburg, Illinois Oquawka, Illinois Burlington, Iowa Dallas City, Illinois Fort Madison, Iowa Nauvoo, Illinois Keokuk, Iowa

Warsaw, Illinois Quincy, Illinois Hannibal, Missouri Louisiana, Missouri Clarksville, Missouri Portage Des Sioux, Missouri Alton, Illinois St. Louis, Missouri Ste. Genevieve, Missouri Kaskaskia, Illinois Chester, Illinois Grand Tower, Illinois Cape Girardeau, Missouri Thebes, Illinois Commerce, Missouri Cairo, Illinois Wickliffe, Kentucky Columbus, Kentucky Hickman, Kentucky New Madrid, Missouri Tiptonville, Tennessee Caruthersville, Missouri Osceola, Arkansas Reverie, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee West Memphis, Arkansas Tunica, Mississippi Helena-West Helena, Arkansas Napoleon, Arkansas (historical) Arkansas City, Arkansas Greenville, Mississippi Vicksburg, Mississippi Waterproof, Louisiana Natchez, Mississippi Morganza, Louisiana St. Francisville, Louisiana New Roads, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana Donaldsonville, Louisiana Lutcher, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana Pilottown, Louisiana La Balize, Louisiana (historical)

State Boundaries of The Mississippi River

The Mississippi River runs through or along 10 states, from Minnesota to Louisiana, and was used to define portions of these states' borders, with Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi along the east side of the river, and Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas along its west side. Substantial parts of both Minnesota and Louisiana are on either side of the river, although the Mississippi defines part of the boundary of each of these states.

In all of these cases, the middle of the riverbed at the time the borders were established was used as the line to define the borders between adjacent states. In various areas, the river has since shifted, but the state borders have not changed, still following the former bed of the Mississippi River as of their establishment, leaving several small isolated areas of one state across the new river channel, contiguous with the adjacent state. Also, due to a meander in the river, a small part of western Kentucky is contiguous with Tennessee, but isolated from the rest of its state.