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The river was thus included in the district of Kentucky, which was then a part of Virginia. [citation needed] In January 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ohio v. Kentucky that the state line is the low-water mark of the Ohio River's north shore as of Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. [2]
The course forms the northern borders of West Virginia and Kentucky; and the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, until it joins the Mississippi River at the city of Cairo, Illinois. Where the Ohio joins the Mississippi is the lowest elevation in the state of Illinois, at 315 feet (96 m).
The most populous city in Boyd County, Ashland is located upon a southern bank of the Ohio River at the state border with Ohio and near West Virginia. The population was 21,625 at the 2020 census . Ashland is a principal city of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area , referred to locally as the "Tri-State area", home to 376,155 residents ...
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
West Virginia border on the shore of the Tug Fork River near the KY-VA-WV tripoint 36°33′15″N 89°34′17″W / 36.55417°N 89.57139°W / 36.55417; -89 Missouri border on the Mississippi River at the Madrid Bar in the Kentucky Bend
Southampton County from 1895 map of Virginia. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 602 square miles (1,560 km 2), of which 599 square miles (1,550 km 2) is land and 3.2 square miles (8.3 km 2) (0.5%) is water. [6] Southampton County is bounded by the Blackwater River on the east and the Meherrin River on the west.
"Potomac" is a European spelling of Patawomeck, the Algonquian name of a Native American village on its southern bank. [13] Native Americans had different names for different parts of the river, calling the river above Great Falls Cohongarooton , meaning "honking geese" [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and "Patawomke" below the Falls, meaning "river of swans". [ 16 ]
Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River. Ohio's neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast. Ohio's borders were defined by metes and bounds in the Enabling Act of 1802 as follows: