A report on Illinois, Midwestern United States, Ohio River and Indiana
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Illinois is a state in the Midwestern United States.
- IllinoisIndiana is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
- IndianaIt is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
- Ohio RiverThe Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- Midwestern United StatesIt is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west.
- IndianaAdditionally, the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash rivers form parts of the state's boundaries.
- IllinoisMajor rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River.
- Midwestern United StatesThe course forms the northern borders of West Virginia and Kentucky; and the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, until it joins the Mississippi River at the city of Cairo, Illinois.
- Ohio RiverIllinois's eastern border with Indiana consists of a north–south line at 87° 31′ 30″ west longitude in Lake Michigan at the north, to the Wabash River in the south above Post Vincennes.
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Ohio
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Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Ohio is bordered by Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest.
The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo, meaning "good river", "great river", or "large creek".
The seven presidents born in Ohio were Ulysses S. Grant (elected from Illinois), Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison & elected from Indiana), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding.
Kentucky
1 linksState in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South.
State in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South.
Kentucky borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to the east; Tennessee to the south; and Missouri to the west.
The Commonwealth's northern border is defined by the Ohio River.
Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast.
Northwest Territory
1 linksFormed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolutionary War.
Formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolutionary War.
At the time of its creation, the territory included all the land west of Pennsylvania, northwest of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River below the Great Lakes, and what later became known as the Boundary Waters.
It spanned all or large parts of six eventual U.S. states (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the northeastern part of Minnesota).
The square surveys of the Northwest Territory became a hallmark of the Midwest, as sections, townships, counties (and states) were laid out scientifically, and land was sold quickly and efficiently (although not without some speculative aberrations).
Mississippian culture
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The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.
The largest city was Cahokia, believed to be a major religious center located in what is present-day southern Illinois.
Angel Mounds: A chiefdom in southern Indiana near Evansville. It is thought by some archaeologists that the Late Mississippian Caborn-Welborn culture developed from the Angel phase people around 1400 CE and lasted to around 1700 CE.
Kincaid site: A major Mississippian mound center in southern Illinois across the Ohio River from Paducah, Kentucky.
Wabash River
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The Wabash River (French: Ouabache) is a 503 mi river that drains most of the state of Indiana in the United States.
It flows from the headwaters in Ohio, near the Indiana border, then southwest across northern Indiana turning south near the Illinois border, where the southern portion forms the Indiana-Illinois border before flowing into the Ohio River.
Founded by the French about 1720, Vincennes is the oldest European settlement in Indiana, and among the oldest in the American Midwest.