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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.
A map of the Ohio River Valley would showcase not only the main stem of the river but also its various branches and connecting waterways. The valley is characterized by its fertile floodplains, which have historically supported thriving agricultural communities.
Ohio River, major river artery of the east-central United States. Formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburgh, it flows northwest out of Pennsylvania, then in a general southwesterly direction to join the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois (see photograph),
OHIO VALLEY. The Ohio River drains into a fertile basin that measures 203,000 square miles (528,101 square kilometers) — stretching across Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. The river is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From there the Ohio flows southwest, forming ...
A map of the Ohio River (Black) and it's basin. A lot of this area is where "The Ohio Valley" is. The Ohio River stretches nearly a thousand miles from Pittsburgh to its junction with the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois. It follows, for the most part, a west-south-westerly course.
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Map of Ohio River Valley (within broader map of Eastern United States). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Quick Facts. Location: Virginia Point Park. Significance: Meriwether Lewis traveled this stretch of the Ohio River on his journey west in 1803. Designation: Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. MANAGED BY:
Geography. Aerial View of the Ohio River between Jeffersonville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. The two sources of the Ohio River are the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River. The Allegheny River rises in north-central Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Township at an elevation of 680m.
With the 1,200-mile extension of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in May 2019, a fourth major North American river became an official part of the Trail – the Ohio River, joining the Mississippi, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers.
The Ohio River is 981 miles long, starting at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ending in Cairo, Illinois, where it flows into the Mississippi River. The Ohio River flows through or borders six states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.