What Is The Shortest River In The US?
Could you imagine that just a length of the 200-feet long stream is also called a river? That's the shortest river in the US. Read on the article to explore more.
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How was Roe River named?
Is the Roe River Actually the Shortest River in the World?
What are the other short rivers in the US?
The Los Patos River
The D River
Chute River
Nautley River
The Powell River
The Link River
What is the longest river in the US?
World record rivers
The world's deepest river: The Congo
The world's longest river: The Nile
The river with the largest fish: The Mekong
The river that runs through most capital cities: The Danube
Most polluted river: Citarum
The smallest recorded river in the United States is the Roe River in Montana. The Roe River flows only 201 feet (61 meters) in Cascade County before meeting the Missouri River.
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Roe River was unnamed until 1988 when a group of fifth graders in Great Falls, Montana led a drive to get the name accepted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The same fifth graders also successfully petitioned Guinness starting in 1987 to get the river named as the world's shortest, knocking a four-hundred long river in Lincoln City, Oregon, the D River, out of the top spot.
Roe River was given its name by the fifth-graders after "roe" for fish eggs due to the small river being near the State Fish Hatchery.
The source of Roe River is the Giant Springs which is considered the largest freshwater spring in the United States. Giant Springs has an average discharged of 242 cubic feet, which can technically fill up about two and a half Olympic size swimming pools. Its water temperature of 54°F originates from the snowmelt in the Little Belt Mountains, 60 miles away. It has been said that the water takes about 26 years to travel underground before returning to surface at the springs. Some of the discharged water is used for a Montana trout hatchery named Giant Springs Trout Hatchery.
Roe River Additional Facts
*Roe River earned its title "Shortest River in the World" from students at the Lincoln Elementary School in Great Falls, Montana.
* There is another river named Roe located at Kimberley of Western Australia which is 41 miles long (66,000m) which is 1,081 times bigger than the Roe River in Montana, USA.
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In fact, the Roe River is often called the shortest river in the world and was actually awarded that Guinness World Record in 1987 after some petitioning by a group of local elementary students. (As a sign on the riverbank explains, it was also given the name "Roe" at the time, meaning fish eggs, for its proximity to the State Fish Hatchery.)
The title was challenged several times before Guinness discontinued the category, however, and by many measurements there are shorter rivers elsewhere in the world, including the Tamborasi River in Indonesia and the Kovasselva River in Norway, which both come in at just 65.6 feet long. The Roe River can boast being the shortest in the United States, though, rivaled only by the D River in Oregon.
While the Roe River is the smallest recorded river in the United States, there are other much smaller rivers elsewhere in the world. For example. the Tamborasi River located in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia is only 65.6 feet (20 meters) long and is considered the smallest river in Southeast Asia.
In Finland, the Kuokanjoki is only about 11 feet (3.5 meters) long and connects Lake Sumiainen and Lake Keitele.
The Reprua River in the country of Georgia is only 27 m (89 ft) long.
The Ombla River in Croatia is only 98 feet (30 meters) long.
The Los Patos located in the Dominican Republic also measures 201 feet (61 meters), depending on the tide.
This river is located close to the Paraíso town in the Dominican Republic's Barahona Province. With a length of 61 m, it can also be regarded as the shortest river in the world. The name of the river interprets to 'the ducks'. It refers to a large number of ducks encountered by the explorers at this river. Sadly the ducks went missing from the river due to overhunting. Recently, however, Muscovy ducks were introduced to the Los Patos to encourage tourism in the area.
The D River is located in Oregon's Lincoln City. It has a length of 440 ft or 130 m. The river drains the Devils Lake and flows into the Pacific Ocean with its entire length lying within the Lincoln City's boundaries. The area around the river is a popular recreation site and hosts two major kite festivals every year. Formerly, the river had no specific name but was called by different names. It earned the name 'D River' only after a contest.
The 320 m long Chute River is located in the Cumberland County of Maine in the US. It has a length of 320 m. The river stretches between the Long Lake and the Brady Point. The Naples Bridge of the U.S. Route 302 passes over this river.
The Nautley River is one of the shortest rivers in North America. It has a length of 800 m. The river flows in British Columbia, Canada. It is the shortest river in the Canadian province. Another short river in British Columbia, the Powell River, gives tough competition to the Nautley River for the title of the 'Shortest River in British Columbia.' There is a conflict between the proponents of Powell River and those of the Nautley River as to which river is the shortest one. The entire length of the Nautley River is located within the limits of the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation Reserve.
This river is located in British Columbia's Sunshine Coast region. Its length of 1005 meters makes it one of the shortest rivers in North America. The Powell River flows for some distance through the city of the same name and then drains into the Salish Sea. The river gets its name from Dr. Israel W. Powell, a Cariboo Gold Rush veteran.
This short river of 2.4 km flows in the Klamath Falls city in Oregon, US. The river serves as the link between the Upper Klamath Lake and the Lake Ewauna. The Link River Dam lies between the two lakes. The Lake Ewauna is, in turn, drained by the Klamath River which finally drains into the Pacific Ocean.
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Missouri River. The Missouri River is one of the longest rivers in the United States. It is located in the midwestern region of the country and runs through the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. The river is approximately 2,341 miles long.
The Missouri River starts at the confluence of the Jefferson and Madison rivers in Montana. It then flows north through North Dakota and South Dakota before turning east and flowing through Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. The river finally empties into the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri.
It is a major source of water for irrigation and drinking water for millions of people living in the Midwest. The river is also a popular destination for recreation, such as fishing, boating, and swimming.
The Missouri River has been an important part of American history since the early 1800s. Lewis and Clark explored the river as part of their expedition to the West Coast. The river was also an important transportation route for settlers moving west during the 19th century. Today, the Missouri River is still an important part of life in the Midwest.
It's difficult to precisely establish river depth without sending down divers, but in 2008 scientists on the Congo River used echo sounders and GPS systems to measure depths of at least 220 metres – beyond the reach of natural light.
They were first alerted by a strange spate of blind, pale fish, that only surfaced when dying or dead. The fish evolved in the freshwater equivalent of the deep sea, and when currents occasionally forced them to the surface, they promptly died of the bends.
From its source in Africa's tropical highlands, through the jungles of Ethiopia and the wastes of the Sahara, to finally emptying into the Mediterranean, the Nile's gargantuan length totals 6,695 kilometres, marginally pipping the much more voluminous Amazon to the title of world's longest river.
The river's two main tributaries – the White Nile and the Blue Nile – meet in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, one of countless cities and settlements to have gained subsistence from the Nile down the millennia.
Though there are elephantine species of sturgeon that switch between saltwater and freshwater, the Mekong giant catfish is widely considered the largest all-freshwater fish, and almost certainly the largest ever verified.
In 2005, Thai fishermen dredged up a 2.7 metre, 293 kilogram whopper the size of a small whale. From Megalodon to Moby Dick, giant marine creatures have long fascinated anglers and storytellers, and the hunt for even bigger fish continues.
Though this may say more about Europe's density than its geography, the Danube holds the double distinction of flowing through more capital cities (four) than any other river, and more countries (10) than any besides the Nile.
From its source in southern Germany, the river runs through Austrian capital Vienna, Slovakian capital Bratislava, Hungarian capital Budapest, and Serbian capital Belgrade, before nipping through Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine and decanting into the Black Sea.
The most polluted river in the world is the Citarum River in Indonesia. The Buni clay pottery-making culture grew and thrived there in prehistoric times, but now the river is so full of plastic, household and industrial waste, raw sewage and other human refuse, that the river's water is practically invisible.
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