The St. Croix River (/ˈseɪnt ˈkrɔɪ/ SAYNT KROY; French for 'Holy Cross') is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 169 mi (272 km) long, in the U...

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of...

east of the Mississippi River, it lies within parts of eight counties in Wisconsin: Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix, Sawyer, and...

the saint Croix river and the Mississippi River. From the late 1890s on the logging industry died down, the last log going down the Saint Croix log mill...

Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Mississippi River. Throughout the mid-to-late 1800s, various dams were built atop the...

in the United States National Park System Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway "Mississippi National River and Recreation Area". Geographic Names Information...

were extinguished. From Saint Paul the great valley goes southeast to Prescott, Wisconsin, where it is joined by the St. Croix River, itself once the outlet...

of the name; the St. Croix River may have been named after Monsieur St. Croix, an explorer who drowned at the mouth of the river late in the seventeenth...

early 1900s, the St. Louis River competed with the St. Croix River as a candidate for a canal linking the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes. The US...

Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for 69,000 miles (111,000 km). The Mississippi River begins its journey from its...