Minnehaha Creek
Minnehaha Creek is a 22-mile-long tributary of the Mississippi River that flows east from Gray's Bay Dam on Lake Minnetonka through the suburban cities of Minnetonka, Hopkins, Saint Louis Park, and Edina, and the city of Minneapolis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: River
- Description: small river near Minneapolis, Minnesota; a tributary of the Mississippi River
- Also known as: “Brown’s Creek” and “Wakpa Cistinna”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Longfellow House and 46th Street.
Longfellow House
Museum
The Longfellow House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, is a 2/3-scale replica of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
46th Street
Railway station
Photo: Runner1928, CC BY-SA 3.0.
46th Street station is a light rail station on the Metro Blue Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This station is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of 46th Street and Minnesota State Highway 55, in the Ericsson neighborhood.
50th Street/Minnehaha Park
Railway station
Photo: Bobamnertiopsis, CC BY 4.0.
50th Street/Minnehaha Park is a light rail station on the Blue Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. This station is located on the southwest corner on the intersection of 50th Street with Minnesota State Highway 55, in the Minnehaha neighborhood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nokomis and South Minneapolis.
Nokomis
Suburb
Nokomis is a defined community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It takes its name from Lake Nokomis. It comprises eleven smaller neighborhoods. Nokomis neighborhoods fall in Minneapolis City Council wards 8, 11, and 12, currently represented by council members Andrea Jenkins, Emily Koski, and Aurin Chowdhury, respectively.
Longfellow
Suburb
Longfellow, also referred to as Greater Longfellow is a defined community in Minneapolis, Minnesota which includes five smaller neighborhoods inside of it: Seward, Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe and Longfellow.
Minnehaha Creek
- Category: body of water
- Location: Hennepin, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.91639° or 44° 54′ 59″ northLongitude
-93.21681° or 93° 13′ 1″ westElevation
686 feet (209 metres)Open location code
86P8WQ8M+H7OpenStreetMap ID
way 39860635OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
5037663Wikidata ID
Q16964710
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Minnehaha Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Minnehaha Creek”
- Cebuano: “Minnehaha Creek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينهاها كريك”
- French: “Minnehaha Creek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minnehaha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minnehaha-elva”
- Norwegian: “Minnehaha”
- Slovenian: “Minnehaha Creek”
- Venetian: “Minnehaha”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Longfellow Gardens and Godfrey Circle.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Minnehaha Creek”. Photo: Thomson200, CC0.