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The Missouri River Valley Culture, or "Steamboat Society," was first defined in the 1850s by non-Indian residents of the Dakotas who sold wood to steamboats or trapped furs along the river bottoms. Gambling, prostitution and illegal alcohol sales to American Indians fueled the growth of the culture, which eventually included outfitters ...
This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States. There are an estimated 17,200 dams and reservoirs in the basin, most of which are small, local irrigation structures. Reservoirs in the watershed total a capacity of approximately 141,000,000 acre-feet (174 km 3). [1]
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.
Map of the Missouri River watershed The White River flowing into the Missouri River and coloring it with clay. Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation.
The project caused more than 1,500 Native Americans to relocate from the river bottoms of the Missouri river due to the flooding. [ 4 ] The project has successfully controlled flooding throughout the Missouri River basin, provided water for irrigation and municipalities, generated baseload power throughout the central US.
Map of major river basins. These are the major U.S. river basins in the U.S., as designated by the U.S. Water Resources Council. [1] Each of these river basins contain a number of smaller river basins.
The Missouri River Basin from Garrison Dam to Oahe Dam, excluding the Cheyenne River Basin above the normal operating pool of Lake Oahe. North Dakota and South Dakota. 37,400 sq mi (97,000 km 2) HUC1013: 1014 Missouri–White subregion: The Missouri River Basin from Oahe Dam to Fort Randall Dam. Nebraska and South Dakota. 20,200 sq mi (52,000 km 2)
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