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The Great Miami River (also called the Miami River) (Shawnee: Msimiyamithiipi[2]) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 160 miles (260 km) long, [3] in southwestern Ohio and Indiana in the United States. The Great Miami originates at the man-made Indian Lake and flows south through the cities of Sidney, Piqua, Troy, Dayton, Middletown ...
Miami Valley. Coordinates: 39°46′07″N 84°11′23″W. Location of the Miami Valley. The Miami Valley is the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, USA, and includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater rivers as well. Geographically, it includes Dayton, Springfield, Middletown, Hamilton, and other communities.
Designated NHL. December 23, 2016. The Eldean Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Great Miami River in Miami County, Ohio north of Troy. Built in 1860, it is one of the nation's finest surviving examples of a Long truss, patented in 1830 by engineer Stephen H. Long. At 224 feet (68 m) in length for its two spans, it is the ...
Watersheds of the Great Miami River (beige) and Little Miami River (yellow)The Little Miami River is a tributary of the Ohio River. It is part of a watershed that drains a 1,757 square miles (4,550 km 2) area in 11 southwestern Ohio counties: Clark, Montgomery, Madison, Greene, Warren, Butler, Clinton, Clermont, Brown, Hamilton, and Highland. [4]
List of crossings of the Great Miami River. This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Great Miami River from its mouth at the Ohio River to its source at Indian Lake. All locations are in Ohio unless otherwise specified. Pedestrian-only bridges are marked in italics.
The Miami and Erie Canal was a 274-mile (441 km) canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. [1] Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a cost to the state government of $8 million ($262 million in 2023). At its peak, it included 19 aqueducts, three ...
1,663.79 cu ft/s (47.113 m 3 /s) ( estimate) [ 1] Basin features. Waterbodies. Brookville Lake. The Whitewater River is a 101-mile-long (163 km) [ 2] southerly flowing right tributary of the Great Miami River in southeastern Indiana and southwestern Ohio in the United States. It is formed by the confluence of two forks, the West Fork and East Fork.
400 families (1,200–1,600 people) Pickawillany (also spelled Pickawillamy, Pickawillani, or Picqualinni) was an 18th-century Miami Indian village located on the Great Miami River in North America's Ohio Valley near the modern city of Piqua, Ohio. [2] In 1749 an English trading post was established alongside the Miami village, selling goods to ...