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The Cuyahoga River [7] (/ ˌ k aɪ. ə ˈ h ɒ ɡ ə / KY-ə-HOG-ə or / ˌ k aɪ. ə ˈ h oʊ ɡ ə / KY-ə-HOH-gə) [8] [9] is a river located in Northeast Ohio that bisects the City of Cleveland and feeds into Lake Erie.
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Cuyahoga River from its mouth at Lake Erie upstream to its source at Burton, Ohio. The list includes current road and rail crossings, as well as various other crossings of the river. All locations are in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Tinker's Creek is the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, the river which flows through Cleveland and into Lake Erie. Because of its glacial history, the course of the Cuyahoga River is unusual: it rises in Geauga County, Ohio, flows southward into the city of Akron, Ohio, and then abruptly turns northward and flows into Lake Erie.
“The Cuyahoga River that infamously caught on fire many times, the last time in 1969 down in Cleveland, that river runs through this park and it's named for that,” said Pamela Barnes, the park ...
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park of the United States in Ohio that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The 32,783-acre (51.2 sq mi; 132.7 km 2 ) park [ 1 ] is administered by the National Park Service , but within its boundaries are areas ...
The bridge gets its "number 1" name from the fact that it is the farthest downstream crossing of the Cuyahoga River proper before it empties into Lake Erie (the only other crossing is the Old River Bridge, which crosses the former course of the Cuyahoga). The bridge is of similar design to many of the other railroad bridges in the Cleveland area.
In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River-the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades-spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of ...
Map of a portion of the canal route in the Cuyahoga Valley. The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth.