Minnesota

TODO

add list of webcams in minnesota

adjacent to

banded iron formation

During the assembly of the core of Laurentia, banded iron formation was deposited in Michigan, Minnesota, and Labrador.

bridges

Cambrian

In the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era, between 530 and 470 million years ago, the region was covered by a shallow sea which deposited sandstone and siltstone atop the basalt.

capital

Saint Paul, Minnesota

cities

clockwise around Lake Superior

Ontario

company

Andersen Windows

counties

creeks

dam

Lock and Dam No. 7

down the Mississippi

Lake Itasca

early settler

Edward Phelan

eastbound on Interstate 90

I-90 Mississippi River Bridge

eastbound on Interstate 94

Wisconsin

eastbound on U.S. Route 12

Big Stone County, Minnesota

first Swedish immigrants

It [Scandia, Minnesota] is the site of what is believed to have been Minnesota’s first Swedish immigrant settlement. In 1850, the first log cabin was built on the shores of Hay Lake.

flag

founded

Best Buy

frozen solid

Jean Hilliard

geological formation

headquartered

Best Buy

highway

U.S. Route 61

interstate highways

island

Nicollet Island

Laurentia

In the United States, the [Laurentia] craton bedrock is covered with sedimentary rocks on the broad interior platform in the Midwest and Great Plains regions and is exposed only in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, the New York Adirondacks, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

location

metropolitan area

Twin Cities

Morton Gneiss

The Giddiness of Time (streetsmartnaturalist.substack.com) Although deep time manifests itself in many ways, it resonates more strongly in some locations. One such place is in downtown Seattle at the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Marion Street. There you will find a rather lovely art deco structure, the Exchange Building, originally built to house the city’s commodity exchanges. Alas, it opened in 1930 and the Depression prevented the building from meeting the owners’ great expectations. (Talk about bad timing!) But they did choose wisely with their building stone, the Morton Gneiss of Minnesota.

northbound on U.S. Route 61

Hastings, Minnesota

one of the wealthiest towns

Sunfish Lake [Minnesota] is one of the wealthiest towns in America. The median home price in the city is over one million dollars.

people

plat book

Digitized State of Minnesota Plat Book – 1916 (geo.lib.umn.edu)

railway

random

transmission tower

rest area

Burgen Lake Rest Area

rivers

school district

Independent School District 622

see also

Twin Cities

senator

Hubert Humphrey

setting in a movie but filmed in Vancouver

Vancouver Never Plays Itself (YouTube) Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.

slavery

Despite the absence of legal slavery in Minnesota, Army officers were permitted to bring their enslaved individuals into the region.

state fair

Minnesota State Fair

state highways

state of

state parks

subdivisions

subreddit

r/minnesota

tags

tallest skyscraper

IDS Center

township

White Bear Township, Minnesota

unorganized territory

Fort Snelling unorganized territory

waterfalls

westbound on Interstate 94

North Dakota

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1527

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Minnesota

Wikipedia

Minnesota (Wikipedia) Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. The northeast corner has a water boundary with Michigan across Lake Superior. It is the 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the “Twin Cities”, which is Minnesota’s main political, economic, and cultural hub and the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and St. Cloud.

Wikiquote

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Minnesota

Wikivoyage

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Minnesota