Photo #1 - 1952 photo showing them changing the river channel. Photo #2 - Levy photo. Photo #3 - 1952 flood view from Wyeth Hill. Photo #4 - 1952 flood damage, US HIghway 36 near Elwood. Photo #5 - Cars waiting on a barge to be taken across the flooded Missouri river. Photo #6 - Rosecrans Airfield flooded.
Jun 11, 2018 · By 1860, St. Joseph had been fully established as the main supply purchase point for the rest of the West, fueled by the rolling Missouri River waters. Soon the soaring architectural treasures of church spires, multi-story manufacturing buildings and mansion rooftops were echoing the area’s peaked river bluffs.
Site identification number Each site in the USGS data base has a unique 8- to 15-digit identification number. 06818000. n/a. Site name This is the official name of the site in the database. For well information this can be a district-assigned local number. Missouri River at St. Joseph, MO. n/a.
Feb 24, 2012 · Missouri River changes its course Ken Rogers Feb 24, 2012 Feb 24, 2012 Updated Feb 24, 2012; 0; A sign designating private property is submerged in the Missouri River near the Fox Island boat ...
FEBRUARY 3, 2016, St. One of the world's most powerful earthquakes changed the course of the Mississippi River in Missouri and created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee while shaking parts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio.Feb 3, 2016
The modern Missouri River has been substantially changed from the river that Lewis and Clark traveled 200 years ago. As early as 1819 the United States government initiated programs to determine methods for managing the river, in terms of both navigation and flood control.
Heavy mountain and plains snowpack, record spring rains and management of flood control at the Garrison Dam combined to cause the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to throttle up the Missouri, running her well above flood stage in June, July and part of August. Nearly 700 homes in Burleigh County were inundated.Feb 24, 2012
The oldest data available on the Missouri River — from the logs of Lewis and Clark — shows that water flow on the river today is far more variable than it was 200 years ago. The data also shows that the river today, at 500 yards across, is 220 yards narrower at St. Charles, Mo., than it was in 1804.Oct 28, 2004
In fact, they were already farming the West Bottoms when the explorers arrived. Back then, the river was 2 miles wide. It took 30 years to dredge the channel using giant wooden jacks with willow masts between them.May 10, 2017
Once settlers pushed west, they began efforts to tame the river so as to tap its economic, recreational and aesthetic potential. They built dams, levees and other structures aimed at keeping the river in check so that businesses and homes could be near the river, taking advantage of all it had to offer.Jun 5, 2011
On February 7, 1812, the most violent of a series of earthquakes near Missouri causes a so-called fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, actually making the river run backward for several hours.
The force of the land upheaval 15 miles south of New Madrid created Reelfoot Lake, drowned the inhabitants of an Indian village; turned the river against itself to flow backwards; devastated thousands of acres of virgin forest; and created two temporary waterfalls in the Mississippi.
10 million peopleAs many as 10 million people get their drinking water from the Missouri River.May 10, 2017
September 23, 1806Over the duration of the trip, from May 14, 1804, to September 23, 1806, from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean and back, the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition company was called, traveled nearly 8,000 miles (13,000 km).
The route of Lewis and Clark's expedition took them up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River, and it may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.Dec 17, 2021
1804The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase.Mar 16, 2021
Joseph, another adventurer staked his claim to permanent St. Joseph river legend: Joseph Robidoux. As the founder of St. Joseph, Robidoux established the Blacksnake Hills trading post with the Native Americans living in the region in 1826. The post became a fur-trading mecca, and St. Joseph was platted out in 1843. Robidoux, like many others to come, was drawn to the living presence of the river and its scenic bluffs that provided a vantage point for miles in each direction.
Starting in the 1910s organizations, communities, and even private individuals began developing the first paved highways to connect metropolitan areas which would collectively become known as the National Auto Trail system.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a great number of dams were built along the course of the Missouri, transforming 35 percent of the river into a chain of reservoirs. River development was stimulated by a variety of factors, first by growing demand for electricity in the rural northwestern parts of the basin, and by floods and droughts that plagued rapidly growing agricultural and urban areas along the lower Missouri River. Small, privately owned hydroelectric projects have existed since the 1890s, but the large flood-control and storage dams that characterize the middle reaches of the river today were not constructed until the 1950s.
In May 1673, the French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and the French explorer Jacques Marquette left the settlement of St. Ignace on Lake Huron and traveled down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, aiming to reach the Pacific Ocean. In late June, Jolliet and Marquette became the first documented European discoverers of the Missouri River, which according to their journals was in full flood. "I never saw anything more terrific," Jolliet wrote, "a tangle of entire trees from the mouth of the Pekistanoui [Missouri] with such impetuosity that one could not attempt to cross it without great danger. The commotion was such that the water was made muddy by it and could not clear itself." They recorded Pekitanoui or Pekistanoui as the local name for the Missouri. However, the party never explored the Missouri beyond its mouth, nor did they linger in the area. In addition, they later learned that the Mississippi drained into the Gulf of Mexico and not the Pacific as they had originally presumed; the expedition turned back about 440 miles (710 km) short of the Gulf at the confluence of the Arkansas River with the Mississippi.
The main stem of the Kansas River, for example, is 148 miles (238 km) long. However, including the longest headwaters tributaries, the 453-mile (729 km) Republican River and the 156-mile (251 km) Arikaree River, brings the total length to 749 miles (1,205 km).
The Yellowstone River has the highest discharge, even though the Platte is longer and drains a larger area. In fact, the Yellowstone's flow is about 13,800 cu ft/s (390 m 3 /s) – accounting for sixteen percent of total runoff in the Missouri basin and nearly double that of the Platte.
Extreme maximums have exceeded 115 °F (46 °C) in all the states and provinces in the basin - almost all prior to 1960. As one of the continent's most significant river systems, the Missouri's drainage basin borders on many other major watersheds of the United States and Canada.
Since river commerce and industrial development began in the 1800s, human activity has severely polluted the Missouri and degraded its water quality. Most of the river's floodplain habitat is long gone, replaced by irrigated agricultural land. Development of the floodplain has led to increasing numbers of people and infrastructure within areas at high risk of inundation. Levees have been constructed along more than a third of the river to keep floodwater within the channel, but with the consequences of faster stream velocity and a resulting increase of peak flows in downstream areas. Fertilizer runoff, which causes elevated levels of nitrogen and other nutrients, is a major problem along the Missouri River, especially in Iowa and Missouri. This form of pollution also affects the upper Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio Rivers. Low oxygen levels in rivers and the vast Gulf of Mexico dead zone at the end of the Mississippi Delta are both results of high nutrient concentrations in the Missouri and other tributaries of the Mississippi.
The watershed's largest city is Denver, Colorado, with a population of more than six hundred thousand. Denver is the main city of the Front Range Urban Corridor whose cities had a combined population of over four million in 2005, making it the largest metropolitan area in the Missouri River basin.
Other tributaries are the Bad, Blackwater, Cannonball, Gasconade, Grand, Heart, Judith, Knife, Little Missouri, Moreau, Musselshell, and White rivers , which enter from the south and west. The Big Sioux, Chariton, Little Platte, Marias, Sun, and Teton rivers enter from the north and east.
The Missouri–Red Rock River system has a total length of some 2,540 miles ...
The major dams built on the Missouri were Fort Peck (near Glasgow, Montana), Garrison (North Dakota), and Gavin’s Point, Fort Randall, and Oahe (South Dakota). The Fort Peck Dam is one of the largest earthfill dams in the world. The entire system of dams and reservoirs has greatly reduced flooding on the Missouri and provides water ...
Local flood protection, involving levees and bank stabilization, and a deeper river channel were provided on the Missouri itself from Sioux City, Iowa, to the Mississippi, a distance of 760 miles (1,220 km).
The Missouri was named Peki-tan-oui on some early French maps and, later, Oumessourit; it has been nicknamed “Big Muddy” because of the amount of solid matter it carries in suspension. For millennia, the area around the upper Missouri River was home to Native American peoples such as the Blackfeet, Hidatsa, and Crow.
In addition to the locations already mentioned, the other chief cities along the Missouri are Williston, North Dakota; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Omaha and Nebraska City, Nebraska; Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas; and Columbia and St. Charles, Missouri.
The upper Missouri River at Gates of the Mountains, western Montana, north of Helena. Travel Montana. The Missouri first flows northward and northeastward (via Great Falls) through western Montana before turning eastward across the northern portion of the state. Shortly after entering western North Dakota, it begins to trend southeastward ...
The first post office in the area was housed in Robidoux’s trading post in 1840. When the Platte Purchase made his land part of Missouri in 1837, the trading post developed into a settlement incorporated as St. Joseph on November 20, 1843.
From St. Joseph to Sacramento, California, the first successful Pony Express run took place on April 3, 1860, when a lone rider on a bay mare galloped from Pike’s Peak Stables in St. Joseph. On that date, Mayor M. Jeff Thompson gave a rousing address at ...