Ohio River

Categories: Geography | Travel | North America
    • 981 miles long
    • Watershed covers 189,422 square miles in 14 [United States|states]]
    • Divided free and slave states during the Civil War
    • Major transportation route in the expansion of the west
    • Has both a humid subtropical and humid continental climate
    • Home of the world record blue catfish, at 104 pounds
  • A prominently east-west running river, the Ohio River runs for nearly 1,000 miles and is the Mississippi River's largest tributary, meaning it does not directly connect with an ocean.
  • Ohio River Path

    The river starts in the east and Pittsburgh and forms the border of southern Ohio and north-western West Virginia. The river turns north-west at the corners of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. It continues west across southern Indiana and runs into the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
  • Cities on the River

    Though Pittsburgh is the largest metropolitan area adjacent to the river, Louisville, Kentucky, sits at the river's deepest and widest points, where it is nearly a mile wide. Since 1988, Cincinnati has held an annual festival called Tall Stacks, which celebrates the city's riverboats and Ohio River heritage.
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