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The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 2, Continental America, 1800–1867. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05658-3. Mendenhall, T.C. & Graham, A.A. (1895). "Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana, and Between Ohio and Michigan". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 4: 127.
1805 Cary map of the Great Lakes and Western Territory (Kentucy, Virginia, Ohio, etc.) Integration of the Northwest Territory into a political unit, and settlement, depended on three factors: relinquishment by the British, extinguishment of states' claims west of the Appalachians, and usurpation or purchase of lands from the Native Americans.
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
In 1608, French explorer and founder of Quebec City Samuel Champlain sided with the Ottawa River Algonquian, Huron and surviving Saint Lawrence Iroquoian peoples living along the St. Lawrence River against the Iroquois Confederacy ("Five Nations") living in what is now upper and western New York state in what was known as the Ticonderoga War.
Ohio Country, a vaguely defined colonial/frontier region, roughly covering the lands between the upper Ohio River and the Illinois Country (prior to 1787) loosely, the Ohio River Valley in colonial times; incorrectly or informally, lands within the boundary of the state of Ohio after statehood in 1803 [citation needed]
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.
The ranges and townships followed those of the original Seven Ranges, ranges being numbered westward from Pennsylvania, and townships within each range numbered from south to north starting at the Ohio River, known as the Ohio River Base, thus having townships in adjacent ranges with different numbers. Sections were numbered according to the ...
Ohio River Railway: N&W: 1877 1890 Scioto Valley Railway: Ohio River and Columbus Railway: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: NYC: 1897 1901 Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheeling Railroad: Ohio River and Western Railway: PRR: 1902 1931 Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad: Ohio Southern Railroad: DT&I: 1881 1898 Detroit Southern Railroad ...