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List of rivers of Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek".[1] The Ohio River forms its southern border, though nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia.

Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Great Miami River, Maumee River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River and then the Mississippi.

The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, including the downtown business district of Dayton. As a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States.[2]

Alphabetically

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By tributary

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Ottawa River

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Maumee River

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Toussaint River (Ohio)

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Portage River (Ohio)

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Sandusky River

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Huron River

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Vermilion River

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Black River

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Rocky River

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Cuyahoga River

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Tinkers Creek
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Brandywine Creek
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Doan Brook

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Euclid Creek

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Chagrin River

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Marsh Creek

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Grand River

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Ashtabula River

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Conneaut Creek

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Wabash River

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Great Miami River

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Mill Creek

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Little Miami River

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Fivemile Creek

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Whiteoak Creek

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Eagle Creek

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Ohio Brush Creek

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Scioto River

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Little Scioto River (tributary of Ohio River tributary)

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Pine Creek

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Symmes Creek

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Raccoon Creek

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Leading Creek

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Shade River

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Hocking River

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Little Hocking River

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Muskingum River

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Meigs Creek
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Licking River
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Wakatomika Creek
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Wills Creek
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Tuscarawas River
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Walhonding River
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Kokosing River
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Mohican River
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Duck Creek

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Little Muskingum River

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Sheets Run

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Opossum Creek

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Sunfish Creek

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Captina Creek

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McMahon Creek

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Wheeling Creek

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Short Creek

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Cross Creek

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Yellow Creek

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Little Beaver Creek

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Mahoning River

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Shenango River

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Quick Facts About the State of Ohio". Ohio History Central. Retrieved July 2, 2010. From Iroquois word meaning 'great river'
  2. ^ "The History of the MCD: The Conservancy Act". Miami Conservancy District. Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2007.
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