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The '''Ohio River''' is the largest tributary of the [[Mississippi River]], by volume. | The '''Ohio River''' is the largest tributary of the [[Mississippi River]], by volume. | ||
Revision as of 18:04, 8 April 2021
The Ohio River is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River, by volume.
The Ohio River drains a basin of 204000 square miles.[1] The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet at what is now Pittsburgh, to form the Ohio.[2] Other tributaries include the Green, Cumberland, Tennessee Beaver, Muskingum, Scioto, Miami, and Wabash rivers. It is 981 miles from Pittsburgh to where the river empties into the Mississippi, at Cairo, Illinois.
Before engineers built locks, and dredged shallow reaches, the river's average speed was five miles per hour.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michael C. Robinson (January 1983). History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin. US Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved on 2021-03-15.