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Tanners Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] It is a 17-mile (27 km) long tributary to the Ohio River. [1] Tanners Creek was named after John Tanner Jr., a pioneer settler who was captured by Indians. [2] The Tanner's Creek Generating Station operated on the banks of Tanners Creek until it closed in 2015.
Tanner's Creek Generating Station (also spelled Tanners Creek) was a major, 1000-MWe coal-fired electrical power plant in Indiana. [1] Located on the north bank of Ohio River along Tanners Creek, it was one of the two coal-fired power stations within 3 miles (5 km) of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, near the tripoint of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky (the other plant being the Miami Fort Power Station in ...
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The river is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh. Subcategories This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total.
Salamonie River; Salt Creek (Little Calumet River tributary) Salt Creek (White River tributary) Schooner Creek; Silver Creek (Eel River tributary) Silver Creek (Ohio River tributary) Simonton Creek; St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) St. Joseph River (Maumee River tributary) St. Marys River (Indiana and Ohio) Stampers Creek; Stotts Creek
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.
The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek". [1] The Ohio River forms its southern border, though nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia.
The Ohio water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage ...