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>Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:32:14 -0400
>From: Jim Pace <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: trivia question
My guess would be the Pend Oreille river in Washington State, in Connie's
back yard. Number 2 in size is probably the Kootenai, next door in Idaho.
These are both big rivers, with high water runs over 100,000 cfs in some
years.
Jim Pace
At 03:37 PM 5/27/98 EDT, you wrote:
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>Folks--
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> What is the largest U.S. river to flow north? Apparently, it's
>neither the Red River (my guess), nor the Yukon River in Alaska.
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> -- Connie Manson
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>From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: trivia question
>Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 14:15:32 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Sorry for drowning a dead horse, but this topic just came up
here this week and is fresh in my mind.
Besides the Willamette and the Snake, others that flow north
(don't know if they qualify for being long or wide or fast or
full):
The San Joaquin (I guess it's flow is heavily altered due to
irrigation). The New River, which starts in western NC and
flows into the Kanawha River upstream from Charleston, WV.
I've several times heard statements that the New River is the
*only* north-flowing river in the eastern US, or even in the
whole US, and this came up again this week. This bogus factoid
is usually presented as if there's something gravity-defying
about this. It's sort of an urban (or, rural) legend.
Actually, the Kanawha, too, flows pretty much N. into the Ohio,
and it's big enough to be navigable.
Volumetrically, I would have thought it would be the Niagara and
the St. Lawrence (flows NE), if you're willing to count shared
rivers. Doesn't the St. Johns move pretty slowly? Does it
carry as much water as the St. Lawrence??
These rivers are obviously not all that rare, even in a country
that has a bunch of land along it's northern border.
--Mark
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>Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:42:47 MDT
>Subject: Re: trivia question
Could it be the St. Johns River in Florida?
This river flows north, parallel to the Atlantic coast, for about 280
miles before turning east, to the Atlantic, at Jacksonville.
Trudy Sauter
Sr. Catalog Librarian
Denver Public Library
Denver, Colorado
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>Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 07:03:59 -0500
>From: "James R. Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: trivia question
When I get a question of this type I want to know who wants the answer, and
why?
But, without that knowledge of the source of the question, let me suggest
that the Tennessee River might be a good answer. Supposedly, it has the
sixth highest flow of the rivers in the U.S. It heads in western Virginia
and North Carolina. It becomes the Tennessee in Knoxville with the
junction of the French Broad and Holston. It then flows SW until it ends
up in Alabama. It has been said that it then realizes its mistake and
turns North to join the Ohio near Paducah.
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>Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:02:38 -0500
>From: Philip Rufe <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: trivia question
Some other north-flowing (at least for a portion of their course) rivers are the
Shenandoah River in Virginia and the Tennessee River where it flows through
Tennessee and Kentucky before emptying into the Ohio River.
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>Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:22:47 -0700
>From: "Virginia R. Hetrick" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: North-flowing rivers
Well, since I once lived in Gainesville, I'll propose the St. Johns
River (all true Gators know WHY it flows north, Johnny! ;-)
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