Itasca is a word coined by
Henry Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi R ...
and may refer to:
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Lake Itasca
Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake, approximately in area. Located in southeastern Clearwater County, in the Headwaters area of north central Minnesota, it is notable for being the headwater of the Mississippi River. The lake is in Itasca Sta ...
, the source of the Mississippi River
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Places in the United States
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Itasca County, Minnesota
Itasca County (pronounced eye-ta-ska) is located in the State of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,014. Its county seat is Grand Rapids. The county is named after Lake Itasca, which is in turn a shortened version of the La ...
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Itasca Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota
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Itasca Township, Sherman County, Kansas
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Itasca State Park
Itasca State Park (pronounced eye-ta-ska) is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The park spans of northern Minnesota, and is located about north of Park Rapids, Minnesota and from Ba ...
, Minnesota
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Itasca, Illinois
Itasca is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 9,543. Located approximately 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, Itasca is close to O'Hare International Airport, major expressways and ra ...
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Itasca, Texas
Itasca is a city in Hill County in Northern Central Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,644.
History
Itasca began as a railroad station for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in 1881, and was incorporated in 1885.
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South Itasca, Wisconsin
* Itascatown, a historical settlement on
Howland Island
Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unorganized, unincorporated ter ...
named after the United States Coast Guard Cutter ''Itasca'' (see below)
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Itaska Street (St. Louis), a road in St. Louis, Missouri
Ships in the United States
* , a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1930 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1950, famous for her role during the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937
* , the name of more than one United States Navy ship
Other
*Itasca, a brand of recreational vehicles produced by
Winnebago Industries
Winnebago Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturer of motorhomes, a type of recreational vehicle (RV), in the United States. In 2018, the company expanded into motorboat manufacturing with the acquisition of Chris-Craft Corporation. Winnebag ...
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Henry Schoolcraft neologisms