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That historic flood over 100 years ago killed more than 300 people and swept away homes, businesses and bridges along the 160-mile-long river that flows from Logan County south past Middletown ...
Jul. 11—A 39-year-old man has been identified as the person found dead Sunday in the Great Miami River behind Waterworks Park in Fairfield. James L. Tirey, of Fairfield, drowned, and his death ...
The Miami and Erie Canal, which connected the Ohio River with Lake Erie, was built through the Great Miami watershed. The first portion of the canal, from Cincinnati to Middletown, was operational in 1828, and extended to Dayton in 1830. [8] Water from the Great Miami fed into the canal. [9]
'Mad River'). [8] The first road between Cincinnati and Dayton that opened up the "Mad River Country" to European settlement was the Mad River Road, cut in 1795. Today, a ski resort named Mad River Mountain is located near the stream's source. Mad River is the largest coldwater fishery in Ohio. [citation needed] The Ohio Department of Natural ...
The region surrounding the Whitewater River is known as the Whitewater Valley. The melting Wisconsin ice cap starting about 21,000 years ago created the Whitewater Valley basin as we know it today. The Whitewater Valley encompasses approximately 80 miles (130 km) between Hagerstown in Wayne County and Lawrenceburg in Dearborn County on the Ohio ...
The Miami Conservancy District is a river management agency operating in Southwest Ohio to control flooding of the Great Miami River and its tributaries. It was organized in 1915 following the catastrophic Great Dayton Flood of the Great Miami River in March 1913, which hit Dayton, Ohio particularly hard.
Clear Creek, about 100 meters before its confluence with the Great Miami River in Franklin, Ohio. Clear Creek is a tributary of the Great Miami River in southwestern Ohio.The creek forms in the southeastern portion of Clearcreek Township, with major tributaries including (from east to west) Mad Run, Beech Run, Bull Run, Richards Run, Twin Creek, Gander Run, Goose Run, and Dearth Run.
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