page_title: Missouri
section_title: Topography
hierarchical_section_title: Missouri / Geography / Topography
caption_attribution_description: English: from http://tapestry.usgs.gov/physiogr/physio.html a public domain map from the USGS. Confirmed through email February 10, 2003 Dear Joe: The map, Tapestry In Time, is considered public domain. Ms. Adonnis Goldstein USGS/ESIC Reston, Virginia --- To: "ask@usgs.gov" &lt;ask@usgs.gov &gt; cc: 02/08/03 09:28 PM Subject: Feedback from USGS Web Pages Is the following image in the public domain? http://tapestry.usgs.gov/physiogr/phys_p.jpg Also, what about the other maps having both state boundaries and physiographic subdivisions? I'd like to add these to an open source material provided they are in the public domain or I can get the copyright holder to give permission to wikipedia for these images. Thanks, Joe
context_page_description: Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With more than six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. Missouri is bordered by eight states: Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center of the state into the Mississippi River, which makes up Missouri's eastern border.
  Humans have inhabited the land now known as Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French established Louisiana, a part of New France, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764.
context_section_description: North of, and in some cases just south of, the Missouri River lie the Northern Plains that stretch into Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Here, rolling hills remain from the glaciation that once extended from the Canadian Shield to the Missouri River. Missouri has many large river bluffs along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Meramec Rivers. Southern Missouri rises to the Ozark Mountains, a dissected plateau surrounding the Precambrian igneous St. Francois Mountains. This region also hosts karst topography characterized by high limestone content with the formation of sinkholes and caves.
  The southeastern part of the state is known as the Missouri Bootheel region, which is part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain or Mississippi embayment. This region is the lowest, flattest, warmest, and wettest part of the state. It is also among the poorest, as the economy there is mostly agricultural. It is also the most fertile, with cotton and rice crops predominant. The Bootheel was the epicenter of the four New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812.
caption: A physiographic map of Missouri
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