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The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [9] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
The Missouri River Valley outlines the journey of the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the valley drains one-sixth of the United States, [1] and is the longest river ...
Mississippi River. White River. Cache River; Black River. Spring River. Warm Fork Spring River. Anthony Branch; Eleven Point River; Current River. Sinking Creek
This is a list of populated places along the Missouri River in the United States. Alphabetically. Arrow Rock, Missouri; Augusta, Missouri; Atchison, Kansas;
Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation. Two large tributaries (the Platte and Yellowstone) have their own separate lists because they would be too lengthy to ...
The White River is a Missouri River tributary that flows 580 miles (930 km) [3] through the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota. The name stems from the water's white-gray color, a function of eroded sand, clay, and volcanic ash carried by the river [5] from its source near the Badlands. [6] Draining a basin of about 10,200 square miles ...
Skunk Creek. The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River in eastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. [2] It flows generally southwardly for 419 mi (674 km), [3] and its watershed is 9,006 sq mi (23,330 km 2). [1] The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Big Sioux River" as the stream's name in ...
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 692 miles (1,114 km) long, in the Western United States.Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains and high plains of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, and stretching east from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of Yellowstone ...