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The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [9] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation. Two large tributaries (the Platte and Yellowstone) have their own separate lists because they would be too lengthy to ...
Cedar Creek (Des Moines River tributary) Cedar Creek (Missouri River tributary) Cedar Creek (Sac River tributary) Chariton River (280 miles (450 km)) Cherry Valley Creek; Coldwater Creek (Missouri river tributary) Coldwater Creek (South Grand River tributary) Coldwater Creek (Saline Creek tributary) Courtois Creek; Crane Creek; Crockett Creek ...
The Missouri River Valley outlines the journey of the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the valley drains one-sixth of the United States, [1] and is the longest river ...
The Blue River (also known as the Big Blue River) is a 39.8-mile-long (64.1 km) [ 3] stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri, in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County, Kansas at the confluence of Coffee Creek and Wolf Creek near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri.
The White River is a Missouri River tributary that flows 580 miles (930 km) [3] through the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota. The name stems from the water's white-gray color, a function of eroded sand, clay, and volcanic ash carried by the river [5] from its source near the Badlands. [6] Draining a basin of about 10,200 square miles ...
Average. flow rate. 7,539 cu ft/s (213.5 m 3 /s) [1] The Great Falls of the Missouri River are a series of waterfalls on the upper Missouri River in north-central Montana in the United States. From upstream to downstream, the five falls along a 10-mile (16 km) segment of the river [2] are: Black Eagle Falls (26 feet 5 inches or 8.05 meters) [2]
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 692 miles (1,114 km) long, in the Western United States.Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains and high plains of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, and stretching east from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of Yellowstone ...