Geography
Mid-City is located at 29°58′19″N 90°05′49″W / 29.97194°N 90.09694°W / 29.97194; -90.09694 and has an elevation of 0 feet (0.0 m). According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of 1.66 square miles (4.3 km2). 1.66 square miles (4.3 km2) of which is land and 0.00 square miles (0.0 km2) (0.0%) of which is water.
Mid-City is located, as the name indicates, in the middle of New Orleans on what was once the backslope of the Mississippi River natural levee, a gradually declining section of the river's flood plain. As such, it was not settled as early as adjacent neighborhoods and was called the "back of town"—the city ended at the swamp, unlike today, when the city reaches the lake. The Esplanade Ridge and the adjoining Metairie Ridge formed a natural spur from the River; but what is now Mid-City, surrounded by these higher-elevated sections, was part of the "backswamp" until development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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