re: Is New Orleans considered to be “East of the Mississippi River?”

I don’t think so, New Orleans is the Crescent city.

I live in New Orleans proper, on the Westbank (Algiers) so I live on the western side of the Mississippi river.


However, I am east of the Eastbank, I am closer to the Prime Meridian than the Superdome, French, Quarter, airport, all of which are on the east Bank.

Algiers is on the West Bank. The rest of the city is on the East Bank.

The funny thing is that, historically, New Orleans was "west" of the Mississippi. The "Isle of Orleans," which runs north all the way to the Manchac, was always considered part of Louisiana, and therefore west, even when Florida reached all of the way to the Mississippi.

St Louis is across the Mississippi River, and most importantly also has the mouth of the Missouri River (the longest river in North America) which allowed for water travel west all the way to the Dakotas (the headwaters are actually in Montana).