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The '''Ohio River''' is the | The '''Ohio River''' is the largest tributary of the [[Mississippi River]], by volume. It flows for 981 miles from Pittsburgh to where the river empties into the Mississippi at [[Cairo, Illinois]]. | ||
The Ohio River drains a basin of 204,000 square miles.<ref name=usaceOhio1983-01/> The [[Allegheny River|Allegheny]] and [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] rivers meet at what is now [[Pittsburgh]], to form the Ohio.<ref name=usaceNavigationHistory/> Other tributaries include the [[Green River (Ohio)|Green]], [[Cumberland River|Cumberland]], [[Tennessee River|Tennessee]], [[Beaver River (Ohio)|Beaver]], [[Muskingum River|Muskingum]], [[Scioto River|Scioto]], [[Miami River|Miami]], and [[Wabash River|Wabash]] rivers. | The Ohio River drains a basin of 204,000 square miles.<ref name=usaceOhio1983-01/> The [[Allegheny River|Allegheny]] and [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] rivers meet at what is now [[Pittsburgh]], to form the Ohio.<ref name=usaceNavigationHistory/> Other tributaries include the [[Green River (Ohio)|Green]], [[Cumberland River|Cumberland]], [[Tennessee River|Tennessee]], [[Beaver River (Ohio)|Beaver]], [[Muskingum River|Muskingum]], [[Scioto River|Scioto]], [[Miami River|Miami]], and [[Wabash River|Wabash]] rivers. | ||
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The Ohio River is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River, by volume. It flows for 981 miles from Pittsburgh to where the river empties into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
The Ohio River drains a basin of 204,000 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.
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.