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The sheaf of wheat represents Ohio's agriculture; the seventeen arrows for Ohio being the seventeenth state admitted into the Union; the Sun portrayed as rising is an allusion to coming wealth and prosperity; the mountains, over which the Sun is depicted, are symbolic of Ohio being the first state west of the Allegheny range. [3]
The Ohio River forms its southern border, though nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Great Miami River, Maumee River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake ...
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.
See also Ohio and categories Tributaries of Lake Erie, Tributaries of the Ohio River Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge more than 30 years ago to protect islands all along the Ohio, but most of the preserved land is along ...
A boy with a goose represents one of the pleasures of water. The 43-foot-tall (13 m) fountain is cast in bronze and sits on a green granite base. [2] The inscription "To the People of Cincinnati" appears on its base. [3] The artistic fountain's motif is water, in homage the river city's continuing debt to the Ohio River. [4]
Salt River (Kentucky) Sandy Creek (Ohio River tributary) Sap Branch; Saw Mill Run; Scioto River; Sevenmile Creek (Ohio) Shade River; Sherrick Run (Jacobs Creek tributary) Shupe Run; Silver Creek (Ohio River tributary) Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky) Smiley Run (Youghiogheny River tributary) Stauffer Run (Jacobs Creek tributary ...
(crosses the river entirely within the state of Kentucky at this point) 1932, 1965 37°54′19″N 87°33′02″W / 37.90528°N 87.55056°W / 37.90528; -87