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The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo, Illinois . A map and diagram of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
New Albany and Louisville. 1912. 38°16′57″N 85°48′05″W. / 38.28250°N 85.80139°W / 38.28250; -85.80139. McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville. ( Falls of the Ohio) 1830. 38°16′41″N 85°47′25″W / .
The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States. The land ceded covered, partially or in the ...
1744 map of eastern North America by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, showing "Village Chouanon" on the Ohio ("Oyo") River, probably the first representation of Lower Shawneetown on any map. Established in the mid-1730s [6] [7] : 31 [8] : 305 at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, Lower Shawneetown was one of the earliest known Shawnee ...
5,006.74 cu ft/s (141.775 m 3 /s) ( estimate) [6] The Big Sandy River at its confluence with the Ohio River. The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7 ...
Lake Fork Mohican River. Leading Creek. Leatherwood Creek (Tawana Creek tributary) Leatherwood Creek (Wills Creek tributary) Licking River. Little Auglaize River. Little Beaver Creek. Little Beaver Creek (Lorain County, Ohio) Little Cuyahoga River.
The Ohio River is a relentless force, shaping and reshaping the landscape in its path. Despite billions of gallons flowing by each day, persistent dredging and engineering of the waterway and the ...