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History. Opened. 1932; 1985. Location. The Ben Williamson Memorial Bridge and Simeon Willis Memorial Bridge, also known as the Green Bridge and Blue Bridge respectively, are a pair of cantilever bridges that connect Coal Grove, Ohio to Ashland, Kentucky, crossing the Ohio River. Completed in 1932, it is named for Senator Ben M. Williamson.
Ashland is a home rule-class city [3] in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The most populous city in Boyd County, Ashland is located upon a southern bank of the Ohio River at the state border with Ohio and near West Virginia. The population was 21,625 at the 2020 census. Ashland is a principal city of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan ...
The Act allowed the production of a system of locks and dams along the Ohio. In 1929, the canalization project on the Ohio River was finished. The project produced 51 wooden wicket dams and 600 foot by 110 foot lock chambers along the length of the river. During the 1940s, a shift from steam propelled to diesel powered towboats allowed for tows ...
U.S. Geological Survey water gauges at creeks upstream, such as on the Nimishillen Creek in Stark County, serve as an early warning system. If the water rises to flood levels, U.S. Army Corps ...
New Albany and Louisville. 1912. 38°16′57″N 85°48′05″W / 38.28250°N 85.80139°W / 38.28250; -85.80139. McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville. (Falls of the Ohio) 1830. 38°16′41″N 85°47′25″W / 38.278087°N 85.790408°W / 38.278087 ...
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5,006.74 cu ft/s (141.775 m 3 /s) (estimate) [6] The Big Sandy River at its confluence with the Ohio River. The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7 ...
The Ohio River will reach a minor flood stage this weekend, the National Weather Service said.. Data from the weather service's forecast office in Wilmington show the river reached over 48 feet at ...