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• <br /> Elk River Historic Context: <br /> Landscape Setting, <br /> 1851-1950 <br /> eve <br /> � <br /> ' f- Construction of the Highway 10 <br /> ` brill e over the Elk River,1940. <br /> Pho o:MHS. <br /> This historic context extends from the construction of the first <br /> dam on the Elk River to the approximate completion of <br /> Highway 10 in about 1950. <br /> Elk River is located in east central Minnesota in Sherburne <br /> County,about 125 miles south of Duluth and 30 miles <br /> northwest of Minneapolis.Sherburne County was set off from <br /> Benton County in 1856,two years before Minnesota statehood. <br /> Highways 10 and 169 intersect south of the downtown,and the <br /> Highway 101 bridge crosses the Mississippi River to Otsego in <br /> Wright County.The Highway 10 bridge crosses the Elk River <br /> north of the downtown across a narrows in Lake Orono.The <br /> present incorporated limits of Elk River encompass 44 square <br /> miles including the former townsites of Orono and Elk River, <br /> as well as what was Elk River Township until its incorporation <br /> in 1978. <br /> The townsite of Orono was platted on the north bank of the Elk <br /> River,northwest of the present city center.The Elk originates <br /> in northern Benton County and has a discharge of about 250 <br /> cubic feet per second at Lake Orono,comparable to that of the <br /> Sauk River where it enters the Mississippi 3 Near its confluence <br /> with the Elk,the Mississippi River flows in a sharp bend where <br /> it is flanked by steep bluffs and marshes.The river divides <br /> Sherburne and Wright counties at this point.The nearby <br /> townsite of Elk River was platted on the north bank of the <br /> Mississippi,downriver from Orono, <br /> Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 7 <br />