Crossword clues for itasca
itasca
- A source of the Mississippi
- The Mississippi's source
- Ol' Man River's source
- Mississippi's source lake
- Minnesota's first state park
- Lake that's the Mississippi's source
- Lake that's the "true head" of the Mississippi
- Lake that is the source of the mighty Mississippi
- Lake of northwestern Minnesota
- Lake at the source of the Mississippi
- Lake -- (Mississippi River source)
- Lake ___, "true head" of the Mississippi
- Lake ____: source of the Mississippi
- Lake ___ (source of the Mississippi)
- Lake ___ (Mississippi's source)
- Lake __ (source of the Mississippi)
- 2-sq.-mi. lake in Minnesota, source of the Mississippi
- Lake _____ (Mississippi's source)
- Lake ___, source of the Mississippi
- Lake that's a source of the Mississippi
- Minnesota county west of St. Louis
- Minnesota county whose seat is Grand Rapids
- Lake that's the source of the Mississippi
- Source of the Mississippi
- A Mississippi source
- Mississippi River source
- Lake that is a source of the Mississippi
- Minnesota lake that feeds the Mississippi
- Lake source of the Mississippi
- Mississippi source
- Lake that feeds the Mississippi
- Lake ___ (Mississippi River's source)
- Minnesota county or lake
- Lake in Minnesota's Clearwater County
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3258
Land area (2000): 4.916013 sq. miles (12.732415 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.069120 sq. miles (0.179020 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.985133 sq. miles (12.911435 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37907
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.974678 N, 88.018513 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60143
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Itasca
Housing Units (2000): 612
Land area (2000): 1.209223 sq. miles (3.131874 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.209223 sq. miles (3.131874 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37084
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.158509 N, 97.147852 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76055
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Itasca
Housing Units (2000): 24528
Land area (2000): 2665.058505 sq. miles (6902.469547 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 262.716806 sq. miles (680.433374 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2927.775311 sq. miles (7582.902921 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.431706 N, 93.570057 W
Headwords:
Itasca, MN
Itasca County
Itasca County, MN
Wikipedia
Itasca is a word coined by Henry Schoolcraft as a name for Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River. Schoolcraft coined the name from a combination of the Latin words veritas ("truth") and caput ("head"). The following places and ships have been named after the Mississippi Headwaters:
Usage examples of "itasca".
They’d had a nice rambling stone-and-redwood home on Blueberry Lake south of Itasca, and his father had been big in Rotary and the Legion.
I'm the one interested in the Itasca Sunflyer, you know, the one with the slide-out bedroom and Corian countertops?
Afterward, the head of the Department of Ancient History explained the president to be more of a Minnesotan than a classical scholar and since Lake Itasca was the point of origin of the mighty Mississippi, the slip of the tongue was a natural one.