Avulsion is causing the Atchafalaya River to gain volume from this river. One bend in this river forms an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, and it was said to flow backward during the New Madrid [MAA-drid] earthquake. Its headwaters are at (*) Lake Itasca, and it is joined at Cairo [kayroh], Illinois by the Ohio River. New Orleans lies near the end of the 2,300 mile long journey of, for 10 points, what longest river in the United States?
Avulsion is causing the Atchafalaya River to gain volume from this river. One bend in this river forms an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, and it was said to flow backward during the New Madrid [MAA-drid] earthquake. Its headwaters are at (*) Lake Itasca, and it is joined at Cairo [kayroh], Illinois by the Ohio River. New Orleans lies near the end of the 2,300 mile long journey of, for 10 points, what longest river in the United States?
Avulsion is causing the Atchafalaya River to gain volume from this river.
Mississippi River