Ohio River and Related Topics

Kentucky

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State in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace near Hodgenville

Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information)

Lake Cumberland is the largest artificial American lake east of the Mississippi River by volume.

Once an industrial wasteland, Louisville's reclaimed waterfront now features thousands of trees and miles of walking trails.

Red River Gorge is one of Kentucky's most visited places.

Forest at Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area, Meade County, Kentucky

Lexington Theological Seminary (then College of the Bible), 1904

The best selling car in the United States, the Toyota Camry, is manufactured in Georgetown, Kentucky.

The best selling truck in the United States, the Ford F-Series, is manufactured in Louisville, Kentucky.

Spring running of Keeneland in Lexington, KY

William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky's flagship university.

The J.B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville, Kentucky's urban research university.

At 484 mi long, Kentucky Route 80 is the longest route in Kentucky, pictured here west of Somerset.

High Bridge over the Kentucky River was the tallest rail bridge in the world when it was completed in 1877.

A barge hauling coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only manmade section of the Ohio River

The Kentucky State Capitol building in Frankfort

A map showing Kentucky's six congressional districts

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

Old Louisville is the largest Victorian Historic neighborhood in the United States.

The U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum in Paintsville provides background on the country music artists from Eastern Kentucky.

Kentucky's Churchill Downs hosts the Kentucky Derby.

The Commonwealth's northern border is defined by the Ohio River.

Midwestern United States

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One of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau .

Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River.

Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska

The Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Prairie in Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cumulus clouds hover above a yellowish prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, native lands to the Sioux.

c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition

Beaver hunting grounds, the basis of the fur trade

The state cessions that eventually allowed for the creation of the territories north and southwest of the River Ohio

Lake Michigan is shared by four Midwestern states: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa

An animation depicting when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789–1861

A map of various Underground Railroad routes

Minneapolis, Minnesota is on the Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska, is on the Missouri River

Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

German population density in the United States, 1870 census

A pastoral farm scene near Traverse City, Michigan, with a classic American red barn

Standing wheat in Kansas, part of America's Breadbasket

Soybean fields at Applethorpe Farm, north of Hallsville in Ross County, Ohio

The Chicago Board of Trade Building a National Historic Landmark

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan.

The first local meeting of the new Republican Party took place here in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.

Midwestern U.S. Senators by party for the 117th Congress

Midwestern U.S. Representatives by party for the 117th Congress

Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River.

Northwest Territory

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Formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolutionary War.

Check signed by Arthur St. Clair while governor of the Northwest Territory (1796)

Map showing the general distribution of Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory in the early 1790s.

Rufus Putnam. This portrait by James Sharples, Jr. is in the collection of Independence National Historical Park, and hangs in the Second Bank of the United States building in Philadelphia.

Campus Martius ("Field of Mars" in Latin) was named after the part of Rome of the same name. This site, including the Rufus Putnam House, is now part of the Campus Martius Museum in Marietta, Ohio.

Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was on August 7, 1789, when the Northwest Territory was first organized, to April 2, 1790, when the future Southwest Territory was ceded by North Carolina

Abraham Bradley's 1796 map of the United States includes many forts and settlements within the Northwest Territory.

Seal of the Northwest Territory over a time capsule outside the Campus Martius Museum. The Latin phrase, "He has planted one better than the one fallen," signifies the replacement of wilderness by civilization.

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.

Southern United States

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Geographic and cultural region of the United States of America.

Field of yellow wildflowers in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Misty Bluff along the Buffalo River, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

Tidal wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland

The highlands of Grayson County in Southwest Virginia

1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, 1781

The siege of Yorktown prompted Great Britain's surrender in North America during the American Revolutionary War, 1781

Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, circa 1790)

Grove Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida. Known officially as the Call/Collins House at the Grove. Built circa 1840.

Horse race meeting at Jacksonville, Alabama, 1841

Historic Southern United States. The states in light red were considered "border states", and gave varying degrees of support to the Southern cause although they remained in the Union. This illustration depicts the original, trans-Allegheny borders of Virginia, and thus does not show West Virginia (which separated from Virginia in 1863) separately. Although members of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory (today part of Oklahoma) aligned themselves with the Confederacy, the region is not shaded because at the time it was a territory, not a state.

Atlanta's railroad roundhouse in ruins shortly after the end of the Civil War

An African American family, photo-graphed by O'Pierre Havens, circa 1868

A Home on the Mississippi, by Currier and Ives, 1871

Child laborers in Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913

An illustration from Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea, 1913

Photo of sharecropper family in Walker County, Alabama, circa 1937

Street musicians in Maynardville, Tennessee, photographed in 1935

Alabama plays Texas in American football for the 2010 BCS National Championship Game

Houston vs Texas face-off during the 2013 Lone Star Series in the American League West division of Major League Baseball

The start of the 2015 Daytona 500, the biggest race in NASCAR, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida

A rally against school integration in Little Rock, 1959.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bill Clinton, newly elected Governor of Arkansas speaking with Jimmy Carter in 1978. Carter and Clinton were both Southern Democrats and elected to the presidencies in 1976 and 1992.

Racial segregation was required by state laws in the South and other U.S. states until 1964.

Historically, the South was defined as all states south of the 18th century Mason–Dixon line, the Ohio River, and 36°30′ parallel.

West Virginia

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State in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.

Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia

Map of Virginia dated June 13, 1861, featuring the percentage of slave population within each county at the 1860 census and the proposed state of Kanawha

Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention.

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol

Harpers Ferry alternated between Confederate and Union rule eight times during the American Civil War, and was finally annexed by West Virginia.

Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote

Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908.

Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946

Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians

The summit of Spruce Knob is often covered in clouds.

Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals

Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia

Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014

The West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston is home to the West Virginia Legislature.

A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike

The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville

The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Steubenville into Ohio.

Christopher Gist, a surveyor in the employ of the first Ohio Company, which was composed chiefly of Virginians, explored the country along the Ohio River north of the mouth of the Kanawha River between 1751 and 1752.

Cincinnati

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City in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County.

Cincinnati in 1812 with a population of 2,000

Cincinnati in 1841 with the Miami and Erie Canal in the foreground

Tall Stacks, held every three or four years between 1988 and 2006, celebrated the city's riverboat heritage.

The Genius of Water, a symbol of Cincinnati, was dedicated in 1871.

Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati

Approximately 1 million attend Taste of Cincinnati yearly, making it one of the largest street festivals in the United States.

Cheese coneys containing Cincinnati chili, developed in the 1920s by Macedonian immigrants in Cincinnati

View of downtown Cincinnati in 2010, showing city arenas

A Cyclones home game at Heritage Bank Center

Crime in Cincinnati increased after the 2001 riots, but has been decreasing since.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has exhibits on the Underground Railroad.

Findlay Market, Ohio's oldest operating market

The University of Cincinnati's College of Arts & Sciences

Xavier University, a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati and Norwood, Ohio

The Aronoff Center, one of Cincinnati's largest performing arts venues

The Contemporary Arts Center building, designed by Zaha Hadid

Local folk band Shiny and the Spoon perform at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

Cincinnati Union Terminal serves Amtrak's Cardinal line and houses several museums.

The Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar line

Fort Washington Way, one of Cincinnati's major freeways

Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.

Ohio

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State in the Midwestern region of the United States.

Artists conception of the Fort Ancient SunWatch Indian Village in Dayton.

Iroquois conquests during the Beaver Wars (mid-1600s), which largely depopulated the upper and mid-Ohio River valley.

The Ohio Country indicating battle sites between American settlers and indigenous tribes, 1775–1794.

Rufus Putnam by James Sharples, Jr., 1797

Battle of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell.

The first Standard Oil refinery was opened in Cleveland by businessman John D. Rockefeller.

Iron being converted to steel for wartime efforts at Youngstown's Republic Steel in 1941.

Köppen climate types of Ohio, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Cincinnati's Procter & Gamble is one of Ohio's largest companies in terms of revenue.

The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, home to the Ohio General Assembly.

The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center holds the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Presidential election results by county for 2020

University Hall at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

Bosworth Hall at Oberlin College in northeast Ohio.

Springer Auditorium at the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Progressive Field, home to the Cleveland Guardians baseball team

Ohio Stadium in Columbus, home to the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, is the fifth largest stadium in the world.

Population growth by county in Ohio between the 2010 and 2020 censuses. -10 to -5 percent
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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".

Mississippi River

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Second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

The beginning of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca (2004)

Former head of navigation, St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, viewed from Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin

The Upper Mississippi River at its confluence with the Missouri River north of St. Louis

The confluence of the Mississippi (left) and Ohio (right) rivers at Cairo, Illinois, the demarcation between the Middle and the Lower Mississippi River

Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans

Sequence of NASA MODIS images showing the outflow of fresh water from the Mississippi (arrows) into the Gulf of Mexico (2004)

View along the former riverbed at the Tennessee/Arkansas state line near Reverie, Tennessee (2007)

In Minnesota, the Mississippi River runs through the Twin Cities (2007)

Community of boathouses on the Mississippi River in Winona, MN (2006)

The Mississippi River at the Chain of Rocks just north of St. Louis (2005)

A low-water dam deepens the pool above the Chain of Rocks Lock near St. Louis (2006)

The Stone Arch Bridge, the Third Avenue Bridge and the Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis (2004)

The Chain of Rocks Bridge at St. Louis, Missouri

The Hernando de Soto Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee (2009)

Towboat and barges at Memphis, Tennessee

Ships on the lower part of the Mississippi

Oil tanker on the Lower Mississippi near the Port of New Orleans

Lock and Dam No. 11, north of Dubuque, Iowa (2007)

Lock and Dam No. 2, near Hastings, Minnesota (2007)

Lock and Dam No. 15, is the largest roller dam in the world Davenport, Iowa; Rock Island, Illinois. (1990)

Formation of the Atchafalaya River and construction of the Old River Control Structure.

Project design flood flow capacity for the Mississippi river in thousands of cubic feet per second.

Soldiers of the Missouri Army National Guard sandbag the River in Clarksville, Missouri, June 2008, following flooding.

Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto A.D. 1541 by William Henry Powell depicts Hernando de Soto and Spanish Conquistadores seeing the Mississippi River for the first time.

Map of the French settlements (blue) in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763).

Ca. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition.

Route of the Marquette-Jolliete Expedition of 1673

Shifting sand bars made early navigation difficult.

Mississippi River from Eunice, Arkansas, a settlement destroyed by gunboats during the Civil War.

The Old River Control Structure complex. View is to the east-southeast, looking downriver on the Mississippi, with the three dams across channels of the Atchafalaya River to the right of the Mississippi. Concordia Parish, Louisiana is in the foreground, on the right, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi, is in the background, across the Mississippi on the left.

Great River Road in Wisconsin near Lake Pepin (2005)

The American paddlefish is an ancient relict from the Mississippi

The source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca

The Mississippi River is known as the Middle Mississippi from the Upper Mississippi River's confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri, for 190 mi to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.

Ohio Country

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The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was a name used in the mid- to late 18th century for a region of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the upper Ohio and Allegheny rivers, extending to Lake Erie.