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Several largely ineffective attempts were made in the 19th century to make South Fork navigable all of the way upstream to the Goose Creek Salt Works. [3] An Act of the legislature on 1811-01-10 enabled a lottery to raise US$10,000 (equivalent to $183,120 in 2023) towards making this reach of the river navigable, and several times the scheme was allowed more time, but by 1813 still nothing had ...
The earliest recorded use of "Missouri" is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a group of Native Americans and a nearby river. [1] However, the French rarely used the word to refer to the land in the region, instead calling it part of the Illinois Country. [1]
Also in 1629, peaches were listed as a crop in New Mexico. [67] William Penn noted the existence of wild peaches in Pennsylvania in 1683. [68] In fact, peaches may have already spread to the American Southeast by the early to mid 1600s, actively cultivated by indigenous communities such as the Muscogee before permanent Spanish settlement of the ...
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 long stream that originates in southwest Montana and flows southeasterly for 2,522 miles (4,059 km); passing through six states before finally entering the Mississippi River at St. Louis. [13] The Missouri River is the longest river on the North American continent. The Missouri River was one of the main routes for the ...
The Kentucky River basin, including North Fork and its tributaries, suffered a major flood in January and February 1957. [22] Hazard was the worst hit place in the entire basin, with all highways blocked, all utilities out of operation, and the main streets under anywhere up to 17 feet (5.2 m) of floodwater. [23]
The Kansas City Stockyards were destroyed and the city was forced to move the development of an airport away from the Missouri River bottoms. The Great Flood of 1993 discharged at 541,000 cubic feet (15,319 m 3 ) per second and devastated much of the upper valley.
The embayment is a topographically low-lying basin that is filled with Cretaceous to recent sediments.The northern end of the embayment appears as an anomalous break in regional geologic structure with Paleozoic sedimentary rocks both to the east in Kentucky and Tennessee and to the west in Missouri and Arkansas.