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The Choctawhatchee River is a 141-mile-long (227 km) [1] river in the southern United States, flowing through southeast Alabama and the Panhandle of Florida before emptying into Choctawhatchee Bay in Okaloosa and Walton counties. The river, the bay and their adjacent watersheds collectively drain 5,350 square miles (13,900 km 2). [2]
Kansas River. Stranger Creek; Wakarusa River; Delaware River; Mission Creek; Big Blue River. ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Kansas (1974) External links
The Choctawhatchee River flows into the bay, as do several smaller rivers and streams. [2] [4] The tolled Mid-Bay Bridge crosses the bay, connecting the city of Destin to Niceville, Florida. The Judge Clyde B. Wells Bridge crosses the eastern part of the bay, connecting Freeport to the coast. [5] Looking westward onto Choctawhatchee Bay
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
Little Choctawhatchee River is a 24.0-mile-long (38.6 km) [1] river in Alabama, United States. It drains an area of 261 square miles (680 km 2) in Dale, Geneva, Henry and Houston counties. It empties into the Choctawhatchee River. Surveys of the river show it to be poor in invertebrates and high in pollutants. [2]
The Pea River begins near Midway, in Bullock County, Alabama, then flows southerly through Elba, where there is a dam, and then south through Ino, Samson, and on to Geneva, where it joins the Choctawhatchee. The river flooded Elba in 1929 and in the 1990s, and joined the Choctawhatchee in flooding Geneva on those same occasions.
The mouth of the Kansas River in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City (at a longitude of 94 degrees 36 minutes West) was the basis for Missouri's western boundary from Iowa to Arkansas when it became a state in 1821 (Kansas entered the Union in 1861.) South of the Missouri River, that longitude still remains the boundary between Kansas and ...
This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 132,000 [1] miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater ...