Chart: The 7,000 Streams that Become the Mississippi River

Slate ^ | By Chris Kirk|Posted Thursday, July 18, 2013, at 10:34 AM | Chris Kirk, Slate

[blam]

A new online tool released by the Department of the Interior this week allows users to select any major stream and trace it up to its sources or down to its watershed.

The above map, exported from the tool, highlights all the major tributaries that feed into the Mississippi River, illustrating the river

[blam]

I like maps.

[Jet Jaguar]

I do as well.

[C210N]

As do I, but being on FR, makes me think of speculating how the feral govt can abuse them... after all, the federal leviathan likes maps as well.

This may be a great tool to invent new taxes, now that any drop of water is regulatable.

If it’s regulatable, it’s taxable.

[Daffynition]

Great find! I love maps!

[ckilmer]

imho one big water solution for the 21st century will be to take Mississippi flood water from march to june and pipe it west.

Likely the cost of doing so would be comparable to current fema and core of engineers work.

[Berlin_Freeper]

3.5 kilometers of Argentine Beef

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Back in the 90’s had to go to Camp Ripley Minnesota for an Army Training event, passed over this river about 100 meters wide, it was the Mississippi. Much different than down stream around St Louis.

[onedoug]

‘Wonder what Mark Twain might have thought.

[meyer]

Pretty amazing how much of our nation “drains” down the Mississippi!

I used to live about a mile from the watershed demarcation in Ohio. I was on the side that drained to the Great Lakes, but about a mile south of me, the streams flowed generally to the Tuscarawas River, eventually leading to the Ohio and then the Mississippi River.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Its cool no doubt, but the river I've lived by almost my entire life has the wrong name. And to make matters worse the name given I'm sure would be unfamiliar to anyone around here. I've probably crossed the Middle Rouge River more than once for every day I've lived.

Ask anyone where the Walled Lake Branch is and I'm sure you'll be directed anywhere but the Middle Rouge.

[norwaypinesavage]

Very interesting. I'm one of the few people in the US who grew up NORTH of the Mississippi. I remember a summer while in high school, probably 1963. A friend and I discovered a map showing a connection from his dad's cabin downstream to the Mississippi. We took a fishing boat and a tent from the cabin to the Mississippi, then back to our homes. It took several days.

I'm still amazed that our parents allowed us to take the trip. There were very few houses along the way, and we spent quite a few hours lost in mazes of wild rice. The route we took shows up on the interactive map.

[Roccus]

As do I, but being on FR, makes me think of speculating how the feral govt can abuse them... after all, the federal leviathan likes maps as well.

Think..EPA's attempts at changing "all navigable waterways" in the 1973 Clean Waters Act to "all waterways"

[Roccus]

PING

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I sailed up the Rouge and got off at Ford Motor...

[left that other site]

LOL!

[gusopol3]

It’s not real inclusive just from looking for the streams in my area.

[C210N]

Every drop is now navigable.

A stream? navigable by a message in a bottle (good way to get the word to your uncle in New Orleans from anywhere in the US!).

Droplet on leaf? navigable by millions of protozoa.

[Mamzelle]

“Navigable” is a legal definition, not a common sense one. It would have to be, as many rivers dry up and come back—

[cripplecreek]