In 1944 Harold Fisk published a serial of beautiful looking maps of the Mississippi River. In his 'Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River', commissioned past times the Army Corp of Engineers, Fisk non exclusively mapped the menstruation of the Mississippi exactly besides tried to correspond how the river's form out has meandered together with changed over time.
Fisk's maps role a issue of unlike colors to present the unlike courses of the river over the centuries. You tin thought static images of all xv of Fisk's maps for the Army Corp of Engineers on this radicalcartography post.
Some of the Army Corp of Engineers' afterwards meander maps of the Mississippi River tin besides move viewed on Meiotic's Meander Maps. Meiotic has geo-referenced a few of the Army Corp's maps together with placed them on meridian of modern maps together with aerial imagery of the river's course. These maps include a slider command which permit you lot to compare the Army Corp's master copy maps amongst a modern map of the river.
Luckily Somebits has besides geo-referenced all 15 of Fisk's master copy maps. The 1944 Map Of Former Courses of the Mississippi stitches all 15 maps together. Unfortunately the modern aerial imagery seem to move broken on this interactive map. However you lot tin nevertheless compare Fisk's map to a modern map of the Mississippi together with you lot tin role the interactive map controls to zoom-in together with report Fisk's beautiful maps inward loving detail.
