--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:20:26 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Mississippi River navigation atlases Sender: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]> How can a patron get hold of the navigation atlases that the Army Corps of Engineers makes for the Mississippi River? These may not be depository any more, or they may have been privatized. Does any vendor out there have info? Does anyone know of any commercial guide books for anyone brave(?) enough to travel in an unpowered boat on the Mississippi, like Huck Finn. Sounds romantic, but I don't know about those barges. Is it even legal? The older Corps atlases we have do have warnings for "small craft," especially near locks and dams in the upper part of the river. And, in the summer, the drinking water and sunburn problems might be something to reckon with. It seems that there is a recent record in OCLC of an atlas for below Hannibal, MO (not in MARCIVE): --------------------------------------- 1998 flood control and navigation maps, Mississippi River: below Hannibal, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. (atlas; seems to be updated very regularly, because this is called the 61st edition; 1:31,680) By the Mississippi Valley Division of the Corps. D 103.49/3:M 69/3/998 -------------------------------------------- I didn't see a record of a currrently produced series that covers the river above Hannibal. The following two seem to be companions to each other that are no longer published, covering south and north of Cairo, IL (as opposed to Hannibal): 2. 1994 flood control and navigation maps of the Mississippi River: Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. (atlas, 1:62,500). By the Lower Mississippi Valley Division of the Corps, which I think has been supplanted by the Division mentioned above. (GPO seems to consider the above atlas just a continuation of this one, based on the SuDoc number.) D 103.49/3:M 69/3 3. Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts. We have a 1989 edition of this atlas. Produced by the Corp's Rock Island, IL, District. It covers the area *north* of Cairo, so I guess it was a companion to the atlas listed above. 1:36,000 D 103.66/3:Up6/989 I looked at the Corp's web site (www.usace.army.mil) but couldn't find anything about these atlases. I also looked at the Park Service web site (www.nps.gov), but couldn't find anything about navigation. thanks, Mark ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Thomas / Public Documents & Maps / Perkins Library Duke University / Durham, NC 27708-0177 [log in to unmask] / voice: 919-660-5853 / FAX: 919-684-2855 The train ... traditional, yet environmentally sound. --Lisa Simpson --- End Forwarded Message ---