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The Platte River ( / plæt /) is a major American river, in the state of Nebraska. It is about 310 mi (500 km) long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary, the North Platte River, it flows for over 1,050 miles (1,690 km). The Platte River is a tributary of the Missouri River, which itself is a tributary of the Mississippi River ...
Formed from Izard County, McNeale County, and unorganized territory: Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States: 40 7,299: 574 sq mi (1,487 km 2) Platte County: 141: Columbus: 1856: Formed from Greene and Loup Counties: Platte River which is in turn named for the French word for flat: 10 34,609: 678 sq mi (1,756 km 2) Polk ...
Burgess Creek. Bingham Creek. Snake River. Long Pine Creek. Keya Paha River. Verdigre Creek. North Branch Verdigre Creek. Middle Branch Verdigre Creek. Lamb Creek.
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River and then the Mississippi. The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913.
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately 716 miles (1,152 km) long, counting its many curves. [ 4] In a straight line, it travels about 550 miles (890 km), along its course through the U.S. states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska . The head of the river is essentially all of Jackson County, Colorado ...
Ohio counties on the Ohio River — located within the Appalachian Ohio region. Pages in category "Ohio counties on the Ohio River" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.