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Missouri River | |
Pekitanoui[1], Big Muddy[2], Mighty Mo, Wide Missouri, Kícpaarukstiʾ[3], Lakota: Mnišoše[4][5] | |
A relatively undeveloped reach o the river near Rocheport, Missouri
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Name oreegin: The Missouri tribe, whose name in turn meant "fowk wi widden canoes"[1] | |
Kintra | Unitit States |
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States | Montana, North Dakota, Sooth Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri |
Tributaries | |
- left | Jefferson, Dearborn, Sun, Marias, Milk, James, Big Sioux, Grand, Chariton |
- right | Madison, Gallatin, Yellowstone, Little Missouri, Cheyenne, White, Niobrara, Platte, Kansas, Osage, Gasconade |
Ceeties | Great Falls, MT, Bismarck, ND, Pierre, SD, Sioux City, IA, Omaha, NE, Kansas City, KS, Kansas City, MO, St. Louis, MO |
Primar soorce | Hell Roaring Creek, a tributary o the Jefferson River |
- location | near Brower's Spring, Montana |
- elevation | 9,100 ft (2,774 m) |
- coordinates | 44°32′31″N 111°27′53″W / 44.54194°N 111.46472°W [6][7] |
Seicontar soorce | Firehole River, a tributary o the Madison River |
- location | Madison Lake, Yellowstone Naitional Pairk, Wyoming |
- elevation | 8,215 ft (2,504 m) |
- coordinates | 44°20′55″N 110°51′53″W / 44.34861°N 110.86472°W [8] |
Soorce confluence | Missouri Headwaters State Park |
- location | Three Forks, Montana |
- elevation | 4,042 ft (1,232 m) |
- coordinates | 45°55′39″N 111°20′39″W / 45.92750°N 111.34417°W [1] |
Mooth | Mississippi River |
- location | Spanish Lake, near St. Louis, Missouri |
- elevation | 404 ft (123 m) [1] |
- coordinates | 38°48′49″N 90°07′11″W / 38.81361°N 90.11972°WCoordinates: 38°48′49″N 90°07′11″W / 38.81361°N 90.11972°W [1] |
Lenth | 2,341 mi (3,767 km) [9] |
Basin | 529,350 sq mi (1,371,010 km2) [10] |
Discharge | for Hermann, MO; RM 97.9 (RKM 157.6) |
- average | 87,520 cu ft/s (2,478 m3/s) [11] |
- max | 750,000 cu ft/s (21,238 m3/s) [12] |
- min | 602 cu ft/s (17 m3/s) [11] |
Map of the Missouri River and its tributaries in
North America |
The Missouri River is the langest river in North Americae.[13]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ a b c d e "Missouri River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 24 October 1980. Retrieved 6 Mey 2010.
- ↑ "Spotlight on the Big Muddy" (PDF). Missouri Stream Team. Retrieved 14 Januar 2012.
- ↑ "AISRI Dictionary Database Search--prototype version. "River", Southband Pawnee". American Indian Studies Research Institute. Retrieved 26 Mey 2012.
- ↑ Karolevitz, Robert F.; Hunhoff, Bernie (1988). Uniquely South Dakota. Donning Company. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-89865-730-2.
- ↑ Ullrich, Jan, ed. (2011). New Lakota Dictionary (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Lakota Language Consortium. ISBN 978-0-9761082-9-0. LCCN 2008922508.
- ↑ [1] USGS topographic map of the source
- ↑ Nell, Donald F.; Demetriades, Anthony. "The True Utmost Reaches of the Missouri: Were Lewis and Clark wrong when they identified the source of this great river?". Montana Outdoors (2005–07 to 08). Retrieved 14 Januar 2012.CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link)
- ↑ "Madison Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 4 Apryle 1980. Retrieved 21 Januar 2012.
- ↑ "Missouri River Environmental Assessment Program Summary". U.S. Geological Survey. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ↑ "The Missouri River Story". Columbia Environmental Research Center. U.S. Geological Survey. Archived frae the original on 27 Mey 2010. Retrieved 10 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ a b "USGS Gage #06934500 on the Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri: Water-Data Report 2009" (PDF). National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 1897–2009. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ↑ Pinter, Nicholas; Heine, Reuben A. "Hydrologic History of the Lower Missouri River". Geology Department. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 8 Mey 2010.
- ↑ Howard Perlman, USGS (31 October 2012). "Lengths of major rivers, from USGS Water-Science School". Ga.water.usgs.gov. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
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