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The Great Miami River (also called the Miami River) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 160 mi (257 km) long, in southwestern Ohio in the United States. The Great Miami flows through Dayton, Piqua and Troy, and Sidney. Carl D. Perkins Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio with Ohio River and Scioto River tributary on right. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George Voinovich (R) Official languages None Area 116,096 km² (34th) - Land 106,154 km² - Water 10,044 km² (8. ...
Downtown Dayton, Ohio, as seen from across the Great Miami River Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. ...
Piqua is a city located in Miami County, Ohio. ...
Troy is a city located in Miami County, Ohio. ...
Sidney is a city located in Shelby County, Ohio. ...
The river is named for the Miami, an Algonquin-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of white settlement. The Miami are a Native American tribe originally found in Indiana and Ohio. ...
Algonquin (or Algonkin) is an Algonquian language closely related to Ojibwe. ...
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The region surrounding the Great Miami River is known as the Miami Valley, an economic-cultural region centered primarily on the Greater Dayton area. The Miami Valley collectively refers to the Great Miami River and its surrounding territory in southwest Ohio. ...
Downtown Dayton, Ohio, as seen from across the Great Miami River Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. ...
==Cour It rises in Indian Lake in Logan County, approximately 15 mi (24 km) SW of Lima. It flows S and SW, past Sidney, and is joined by Loramie Creek in northern Miami County. It flows south past Piqua and Troy, and through Dayton, where it is joined by the Stillwater and the Mad rivers and Wolf Creek. Indian Lake is a lake in Logan County in western Ohio in the United States. ...
Logan County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ...
Lima is a city in Allen County, Ohio. ...
Sidney is a city located in Shelby County, Ohio. ...
Miami County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ...
Piqua is a city located in Miami County, Ohio. ...
Troy is a city located in Miami County, Ohio. ...
Downtown Dayton, Ohio, as seen from across the Great Miami River Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. ...
The Stillwater River is a tributary of the Great Miami River, approximately 65 mi (105 km) long in western Ohio in the United States. ...
The Mad River flows nearly 60 miles from Logan County, Ohio to Downtown Dayton, Ohio, where it meets the Great Miami River. ...
Wolf Creek is the name of a number of places: Wolf Creek is a town in Southern Oregon Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Kansas Wolf Creek a tributary of the North Canadian River in New Mexico. ...
From Dayton it flows SW past Middletown and Hamilton in the southwestern corner of Ohio. In southwestern Hamilton County it is joined by the Whitewater River approximately 5 mi (8 km) upstream from its mouth on the Ohio, on the Ohio-Indiana state line, approximately 15 mi (24 km) west of Cincinnati. Middletown is a city located in Butler and Warren counties in southwestern Ohio in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hamilton is a city located in Butler County, Ohio. ...
Hamilton County is a county of the state of Ohio, located in the southwest corner of the state. ...
The Whitewater River is a tributary of the Great Miami River, approximately 90 mi (145 km) long, in southeastern Indiana and southwestern Ohio in the United States. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George Voinovich (R) Official languages None Area 116,096 km² (34th) - Land 106,154 km² - Water 10,044 km² (8. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Hoosier State Other U.S. States Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Governor Mitch Daniels (R) Senators Richard Lugar (R) Evan Bayh (D) Official languages English Area 94,321 km² (38th) - Land 92,897 km² - Water 1,424 km² (1. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton County6. ...
Natural and human history
The Miami and Erie Canal built in the 1830s connected the upper reaches of the river with Lake Erie and served as the principal route of transportation for western Ohio until the 1850s. The Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio with Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio. ...
Jump to: navigation, search // Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta...
Jump to: navigation, search Lake Erie, looking southward from a high rural bluff near Leamington, Ontario Lake Erie is one of the five large freshwater Great Lakes in North America, among the worlds largest such lakes. ...
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Following a catastrophic flood in March, 1913, the Miami Conservancy District was established in 1914 to build dams and levees and to dredge and straighten channels to control flooding of the river. Jump to: navigation, search Look up Flood on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land...
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The Miami Conservancy District is a river management agency operating in Southwest Ohio to control flooding of the Great Miami River and its tributaries. ...
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DAMS is a racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsports. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial embankment or dike, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Dredging is miscellaneous excavator-type work underwater, usually in shallow sea or fresh water. ...
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