Title: Which is the Widest River in the United States?
Headings: Which is the Widest River in the United States?
Which is the Widest River in the United States?
Interesting Facts about the Mississippi River
The Origin of Mississippi
Flow of the Mississippi
The Upper Mississippi
The Middle Mississippi
The Lower Mississippi
Confluence with the Gulf of Mexico
Human Settlements and Ecology
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Where the Mississippi does originates?
What is the total length of the Mississippi?
What is the river’s total drainage area?
What North American states does the river pass through?
How many states in US does it drains?
What is the origin of the name ‘Mississippi’?
Into how many sections the Mississippi river can be divided?
Which section of the Mississippi has the largest number of dams?
How many of dams are used for power generation?
What is the purpose of remaining dams?
Which is the farthest navigation point on the Mississippi?
Passing through which dam the drop in elevation of Mississippi is the largest?
Which is the only waterfall on Mississippi river and where?
Which lake is the widest in upper Mississippi?
Name some major tributaries of the upper Mississippi.
Name the chief tributaries of the middle Mississippi.
What are the main tributaries of lower Mississippi?
Where the Mississippi river does empties itself?
What is the discharge rate of Mississippi river into the Gulf of Mexico?
When was the earliest bridge across the Mississippi was constructed?
When was the first rail road bridge across the Mississippi constructed?
What are the rare turtle species found in the Mississippi basin?

Content: Another interesting fact about the flow of Upper Mississippi from its source to St Paul’s in Minnesota is that its elevation drops to about 209 meters, which is half of the initial elevation of the river. The upper Mississippi after its confluence with St. Croix River in Iowa passes through a number of step banks formed due to the river erosion on both sides. The upper Mississippi is a multi threaded stream with many islands and bars. Some important tributaries of the Upper Mississippi river are- Minnesota River, Cannon River, Croix River, Wisconsin River and Skunk River etc. The Middle Mississippi
The middle Mississippi has a length of 190 miles (310 kilometers), from the upper Mississippi’s confluence with the Missouri river at St Louis to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo Illinois. The middle Mississippi falls further to an elevation of 96 meters from sea level from its initial elevation of 209 meters. The middle Mississippi encounters only three tributaries during its entire flow from St Louis to Illinois- Missouri, Meramec Rivers of the state of Missouri and the Kaskaskia River of Illinois. The Lower Mississippi
The lower Mississippi has a length of 1000 kilometers (1600 miles) from its confluence with the Ohio River to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. It is during the lower regions of its flow that the Mississippi river meets its major tributary in terms of discharge, which is the Ohio River. The lower Mississippi also has the widest points in some places where it reaches to a width of approx 2-3 km.