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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 following is a list of lakes in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [ 1 ]
The Markland Locks and Dam is a concrete dam bridge and locks that span the Ohio River. It is 1395 feet (425.2 m) long, and connects Gallatin County, Kentucky, and Switzerland County, Indiana. The locks and dam were reviewed by the Board of Engineers for River
KY 297: Elizabethtown and Tolu: Cave-in-Rock Ferry: IL 1 / KY 91: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore: Lock and Dam No. 50: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore Shawneetown Bridge: IL 13 / KY 56: Old Shawneetown and Spring Grove: 1955
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Natural-color satellite image of the Wabash-Ohio confluence. The Mississippi River flows to the Gulf of Mexico on the Atlantic Ocean. Among rivers wholly or mostly in the United States, the Ohio is the second largest by discharge volume and the tenth longest and has the eighth largest drainage basin.
Ohio County was formed in 1798 from land taken from Hardin County. [3] Ohio was the 35th Kentucky county in order of formation. [4] It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but it lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.
The Little Sandy River is a tributary of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky in the United States. It is 85.4 miles (137.4 km) long [1] drains an area of 724.2 square miles (1,876 km 2). [2] Via the Ohio, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.