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Missouri River: 12,600 mi 2 32,600 km 2 [108] 1,700 ft 3 /s 49 m 3 /s A small river flows through a field of grass and yellow flowers. 32 Little Missouri River: 560 mi 900 km [109] Wyoming s, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota m
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) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Between where the Missouri River joins the Mississippi at Saint Louis, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, the depth averages 30 feet (9 m). Below Cairo, where the Ohio River joins, the depth averages 50–100 feet (15–30 m) deep. The deepest part of the river is in New Orleans, where it reaches 200 feet (61 m) deep. [57] [58]
The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into its fold and flows forever on. It has countless ...
For example, due to 18 cutoffs created between 1766 and 1885, the length of the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, was reduced by 351 kilometres (218 miles). [10] These points make it difficult, if not impossible, to get an accurate measurement of the length of a river.
Missouri River – 2,340 miles (3,770 km) Mississippi River – 2,320 miles (3,730 km) White River – 722 miles (1,162 km) Des Moines River – 525 miles (845 km) St. Francis River – 426 miles (686 km) Black River – 300 miles (480 km) Gasconade River – 280 miles (450 km) Osage River – 276 miles (444 km) Meramec River – 229 miles (369 km)
Consider West Alton, Missouri, on a bend of the Mississippi near its meeting with the Missouri River. It had 3,900 people in 1970, Mayor Willie Richter said. That number nosedived to about 570 ...
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.