...3 minutes, or 180 Mississippis ;)

“The Mighty Mississipp! The Old Man! The olllld Miss!” - Clark W. Griswold

@flowingafterglow629

10 ай бұрын

Dee-eeep river...

@Concussed1.

5 ай бұрын

Hahahahahahaha I was thinking about that the whole video.

I live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The Mississippi river is just a block away from my house. I spent my 25th birthday swimming at its source in Lake Itasca further northwest. Its one mighty and impressive river! From the northwoods of Minnesota, down the fertile prairies of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri way down to the hot steamy bayous of Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico

@XR171

10 ай бұрын

Curious, at its source is it shallow enough to walk across? Obviously you'll get wet but would your head stay above the water?

@BadgerCheese94

10 ай бұрын

@XR171 Yes. I have a photo of me standing in the middle of the river. My feet on the ground. My torso completely above water, even my belly button

@abdifitahfarah1159

9 ай бұрын

You just gave me an idea for my next birthday I live a block from the river too near downtown 😂 always wanted to meet where it all starts

@davidaaaa4611

3 ай бұрын

Did you not think that alligators may be out there. Just a thought.

@BadgerCheese94

3 ай бұрын

@@davidaaaa4611 In Minnesota? Lol 😆

Mississippi river can't keep us apart , there's too much love in the Mississippi heart

@busterhikney6936

11 ай бұрын

History begs to differ.

@lchmpn1

10 ай бұрын

Great song!!!

@antoniohoward981

9 ай бұрын

Shiiiiddddd. Not mikkkikkkippi

@PyrotechnicsNL

3 ай бұрын

That alligator just swim to slow

I remember crossing the Mississippi at St Louis as a kid and was totally amazed at its size. I now live on the Rhine, one of Europe's biggest waterways, but it does not begin to compare

@TellenJones

9 ай бұрын

Mississippi should really be considered a tributary river of Missouri river, not the other way around.

@Ralphieboy

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I assume that is most likely a historical convention as the Missouri did not gain significance until later

@rickrose5377

6 ай бұрын

On the other hand, we have no castles of any note.

@Roybwatchin

4 ай бұрын

I remember crossing the Rhine back in 95 timeframe.... It was just outside of Strasborg, France. I remember thinking about the Germans during WW2 and how they must've crossed at this same area. It was in Feb and very misty and foggy that day, kind of creepy in a way.

@Dr.Pranav

3 ай бұрын

​@@TellenJonesexactly dude

I am a Native of Iowa. The Mississippi is our Eastern border and the Missouri is our Western border.

@jayteegamble

11 ай бұрын

You're the only state that has the entirety of the eastern and western borders as rivers. RAGBRAI fact they tell us.

@brucewilson1958

11 ай бұрын

@@jayteegamble I rode across Iowa with 10,000 Humans many years ago.

@user-oh2hs6jh5x

3 ай бұрын

The Missouri is PART OF your western border. From Sioux City northwards it is the Big Sioux river

@realdjoffski7201

26 күн бұрын

You owe Argh, I owe Argh. Argh. We owe him. 😂 🐂🎯

In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' Good short video, thanks for posting.

@BeingRomans829ed

3 ай бұрын

Me and a dude I used to know would sing: "Well, in 1418 we trook a little tip along with Jernel Kakson down the Sissamightymip!"

I love what the Mississippi has done for the landscape, especially where the tributaries flow. For 50 miles to the east and west, you have such a wonderfully rich landscape of hills that are just beautiful. Disclaimer: I grew up about 30 miles west of the Mississippi in that type of hilly area.

I was born and raised in Mount Carroll Illinois just 10 miles from the Mississippi River. So I’m pretty familiar with at least part of the Mississippi River. My dad used to go fishing in some of the creeks that flow into the Mississippi.

Beautifully explained in limited time 🙏

@violetsummer2010

Жыл бұрын

Hello.how are you doing

@FactSpark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙂

There is an odd place on the far reaches of the Missouri: "Two Ocean Pass". A wetland that has two exits: Atlantic Creek, which flows into the Yellowstone and from that to the Missouri, and Pacific Creek which flows into the Snake and from that to the Columbia. Some speculation that species from (or native) to one watershed have simply crossed into the other. There are doubtless other instances of this worldwide, but it is an interesting occurrence.

@avgjoe-cz7cb

10 ай бұрын

Continental Davide??

@clayton5584

10 ай бұрын

​@@avgjoe-cz7cbcontinental David's not here man

@chuckdavinci9044

9 ай бұрын

​@@clayton5584 I'm sorry David I continental do that

@toddbaker1574

8 ай бұрын

There is one creek I believe it’s called 2 ocean creek that splits at a point appropriately called “ parting of the waters. That is the spot you are talking about.

@fjkelley4774

8 ай бұрын

@@toddbaker1574 Yes, in fact, I first heard of it as "Two Ocean Creek", but much of what I subsequently found called it "Two Ocean Pass", so I'll guess it is know by both (and maybe more). So, maybe the Carp in the Mississippi (trying to get to L Michigan) have branched with some going up the Missouri and from that water route could get to the Columbia?

Fantastic video!! Born/raised in St. Louis County Missouri. Now I live about 50 miles west of St. Louis. I've always enjoyed both the Missouri river and The Mississippi rivers.

Interesting choice for the photo of St. Louis. The photo is from when much of the old riverfront was razed to make way for the construction of the arch.

@dlbstl

3 ай бұрын

I noticed that too! Un-Iconic.

Just FYI: It is pronounced “CORE” not Corps.

@brucekuehn4031

11 ай бұрын

Corpse - a dead body

@schoolssection

10 ай бұрын

BO never learned this.

@jeffjones6951

9 ай бұрын

1:55

@billwilson-es5yn

4 ай бұрын

AI is ignorant of correct pronunciation.

@bradgilchrist-wy5gn

3 ай бұрын

And talking kilometers.

Excellent! Better than what we learned in school.

I read 'The Mississippi River Expanded in under 3 minutes'

@cringeginge7663

11 ай бұрын

I read 'the Mississippi River Examined in under 3 minutes'

@leslietaylor4458

11 ай бұрын

Noo thanks. We are not sending our water out west

@jefffinkbonner9551

10 ай бұрын

I read ‘The Mississippi River Exorcised in under 3 minutes’

@benprewitt4600

10 ай бұрын

Thank God I wasn't the only one.

@girldaddividendinvestor

10 ай бұрын

Reading is fundamental.

Thats awesome. I grew up just 1,975 miles west of the Mississippi River. I've always wanted to check it out one of these days

Great informative video! Keep up the good work!

Geologists say that the Mississippi River is a tributary of the Missouri River. Long ago the Missouri River ran west of Crowley's Ridge and the Ohio River ran east of the ridge down to the Gulf of Mexico. Then the New Madrid Fault Zone had some earthquakes that made the three take new channels where the Missouri -Mississippi River flowed into the Ohio River's channel.

@Moose803

2 ай бұрын

That's not true

I have crossed the Mississippi in every state it touches (except Kentucky, for some reason...), worked near its headwaters and rode a steamboat in New Orleans plus worked many places near it in between. Incredible lifeblood of America (even if technically it SHOULD be called The Missouri...!!!).

Mississippi River explained in 3 words: Water flowing downhill

Saw the Mississippi River when I was in Memphis..there’s a park there, I sat there for hours❤

Water also flows north into Hudson Bay and east through Lakes to St Lawrence seaway etc, all adjacent and very near the Mississippi basin. The most subtle changes in topography could have sent more water into the Mississippi basin. Also interesting, only in Minnesota can a rain cloud put precipitation in 3 different major continental watersheds, and of course Minnesota being the source of the Mississippi.

There is a small part of the state of Michigan that flows eventually into the Mississippi via the Kankakee River.

Very educational in 3 minutes. 🌎⏳

Correction: Alberta is not a territory. While Canada does have territories, Alberta is a province.

Oh my, this video is about your subject and not about you. Novel idea! Thanks for the brevity packed with information.

Wow nice video amazing nice place

You showed timber being moved north into Minnesota but that’s where the trees were cut down timber came from Minnesota.. logging was huge in Minnesota in the 1850s-1880s

The Mississippi starts at Lake Itaska. You can easily walk across the headwaters.

@sondra-ht7ho

10 ай бұрын

I've always wanted to see where it starts!❤ Neat!

@BadgerCheese94

10 ай бұрын

@sondra-ht7ho Its a beautiful area but if you visit in the summer, beware... the flies up there BITE like crazy! Besides that .. swimming in the river is a joy

@user-oh2hs6jh5x

3 ай бұрын

Correct spelling is Itasca. I've been to the headwaters. There is a small park along with a sign that indicates that this is the headwaters, and how far it flows to the gulf of Mexico. Most people take the opportunity to walk to the other side, which is about 30 feet across in what is generally about 20 inch deep water. (9 meters, 51cm).

Thank you!

We have a little creek behind our house. I followed it on a map. It makes it’s way to the Mississippi 😊

You mentioned sediment in teh river. The pionoeers had a saying about the Missippi, "Too thick (muddy) to drink but too thin to plow". :)

Great explanation 👌

Do a follow-up exploring the headwaters!

When the upper Mississippi and the Ohio come together at Cairo, IL to form the lower Mississippi, the Ohio is the *much* bigger river. It's wider than the upper Mississippi. It delivers more water to the lower Mississippi. And the Ohio and lower Mississippi form more of a straight line there, with the upper Mississippi coming in from the side. Either the lower Mississippi should be considered the continuation of the Ohio, or the Ohio should be considered the upper Mississippi. Either way, the current upper Mississippi (from Cairo north to Minnesota) needs a new name. Someone hurry up and fix this.

@BST-lm4po

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. I've argued that the river should actually be called the Allegheny River! Because if the 'rule of thumb' is followed, where when two rivers meet the larger river keeps it's name and the smaller river becomes it's tributary, then when the Allegheny and the Monongahela meet in Pittsburgh, instead of forming a new river, (the Ohio) the larger river which is the Allegheny River should have kept it's name. And when it met the Mississippi, ...once again it should have kept it's name, the Allegheny! Technically the Allegheny River should run from upper Pennsylvania to the Gulf of Mexico, with the Mississippi being it's tributary!

@Big_Bag_of_Pus

10 ай бұрын

@@BST-lm4po Except the tributary (the current upper Mississippi) wouldn't be called the Mississippi anymore, as it'd go nowhere near Mississippi. But otherwise, yeah. I don't know why the name changes at Pittsburgh.

@baimbridgevoret2309

3 ай бұрын

​@@BST-lm4po But previously the Allegheny was just considered the Upper Ohio, so...

Thank you, teacher!

I found myself standing in ankle deep water in the middle of the Mighty Mississippi. We were on a bass boat going 30 mph when we hit a sand bar. I was trying to push us off the sand bar, surrounded by water on every side. It is a force of nature.

You should make a series in which you explain different rivers from the different parts of the world like the Danube, the Nile, the Indus and e.t.c.

@FactSpark

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I actually already have a small series about that. So far I have a video about the Amazon River and the Ganges River in a similar style as this one and there are more to come!

@HamzaShafiq629

2 жыл бұрын

@@FactSpark Oh, okay. You should make a video on the Nile and the Indus. These two rivers are full of history.

@larrieschneider6863

Жыл бұрын

@@FactSpark c c

@goaskmymom1350

Жыл бұрын

The Kickapoo river in Wisconsin is the longest most crooked river in the world. I believe in the native Indian language it's namesake means crooked.

@goaskmymom1350

Жыл бұрын

Or, someone gave me a good BS line of 💩

Nice Information!!!

Excellent video

You missed the units for the area, it should be 3.200.000 km ^2, not m^2

@lisalarouge6309

3 ай бұрын

The whole thing should have been in miles, not metric.

Great Information

Mother Nature is amazing!✌️

It would have been interesting to start with origins of The Mississippi prior to the last Ice Age. The ancient Teays river which had the Ohio and Mississippi as minor tributaries. Presently the only remnants of The Teays are The Kanawha/New River, a tributary to The Ohio at Charleston WV The Teays River is judged to be the 2nd oldest river in the world, The Nile is older.

Thanks a lot

In general, the US does NOT refer to kilometers for measurement. We use miles and that would make this video more intelligible to the people in the US-the main group interested in the Mississippi River. PS, “corps” is pronounced as “core”.

@gordonwaldner9792

11 ай бұрын

Kilometres is better for everyone. It is about time that the USA catch up with rest of the world. Metric is so much easier to use.

@migranthawker2952

11 ай бұрын

@@gordonwaldner9792 Absolutely!

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

grow up.

@donelmore2540

11 ай бұрын

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 To whom is that directed?

@BadgerCheese94

10 ай бұрын

@gordonwaldner9792 We dont care for metric. We tried in the '70s and it didn't work. Get over it. Personally I only like metric for measuring liquids.

If the river slows down too much the gulf moves up and NO is a salt water port ...

@jakurdadov6375

10 ай бұрын

It is September 2023, that is happening right now. It is affecting the fresh water intakes of New Orleans and surrounding communities. New Orleans will not be a completely salt water port unless the River jumps to the Atchafalaya River channel.

@johnprendergast1338

10 ай бұрын

@@jakurdadov6375 You are correct..)))

It's amazing how the topography in Michigan funnels water to the Mississippi River instead of just a few miles north into Lake Michigan.

@guidorrmc7618

7 ай бұрын

Where in the state of Michigan are you south of Lake Michigan?

@JohnnyAngel8

7 ай бұрын

@@guidorrmc7618I meant to type Illinois. You got me thinking though and, yes, there is a part of Michigan that is south of Lake Michigan: the Traverse City area. All of Lake Michigan, then no, there isn't.

the limestone bluffs along the upper mississippi river is beautiful,,from dubuque,ia uptp la crosse wi

Wouldn't it be fun to kayak down the entire river. !!

fun fact radio stations on the east side of the miss river start with a W on the west side radion stations start with letter K

Water seeks the path of least resistance.

@PyrotechnicsNL

3 ай бұрын

Isn't that to logical these days to understand ? Maybe they one day are so advanced to understand climate is changing to the solar system

@neanam

3 ай бұрын

Which means the earth is flat and it's not going up the earths curvature... because there isn't an earth curvature

@lisalarouge6309

3 ай бұрын

The Mississippi actually flows north for twenty miles before it heads south. Check out the headwaters at Itasca state park.

Seinfeld Jerry asks George "who do you like (explorer)"? George replies "I like de Soto" Jerry asks "what did he do"? George says "He discovered the Mississippi" Jerry replies "Yeah, like they wouldn't have found that anyway".

Well done! Where did you find the excellent maps used in this video? I always wanted a good map of US River Systems but could never find a decent one.

Alligators?? 😮 hey man i enjoy my river in Minnesota now there's Alligators

next the great lake also must go by drain out effect

You omitted that 28,000 sq kms flow south from Canadian Prairies into The Basin

@gordonwaldner9792

11 ай бұрын

They did mention Alberta, but a small portion of Saskatchewan is included. Sask, by thaw has 97000 lakes.

@wildbill1726

3 ай бұрын

Alberta has 4 watershed basins. The Milk, the Saskatchewan, the Athabascan, and one river that flow s into the Pacific in the Rockies. Can't remember the name.Might be that creek that flows along the Yellowhead pass by Jasper.

"Michi Sepe.” An Indian tribal name denoting "muddy water” and named for the large river, Ojibwe word Misi-ziibi (Great River). The Dakota knew it as Hahawakpa (River of the Waterfalls). The Ojibwe were brought to Mnisota by water, and it is central to their cosmology.

1:55 "Corps" lol... A military unit consisting entirely of the corpses of engineers. It's actually pronounced "core".

@jeffjones6951

9 ай бұрын

Was about to make the same comment

The Missouri River originally ran to Hudson Bay far north.. it got diverted by the glaciers to where it is today.

I live in Louisiana and in June when the river is high it flows at 4.3 million cubic feet per second. That’s a lot of water

That looked like a salt water crocodile to me, but I'm being picky. Great presentation!!!

Interesting. Thank you.

Great video! (Mississippi Queen! You know what I mean.)

"Tributories?" [sic] "Corpse" Is this a text-to-voice robot narrating?

@FactSpark

11 ай бұрын

It's just me speaking into a microphone, english is not my first language.

The graphic say's 3.2 million mi2 while the narrator says 3.2 million square kilometers. Which is it?

One very large sewer line, all cities pour their sewage waste into the river, the lumps are screened out but all the chemicals are discharged into the river, a fact.

You said that only Wien, Budapest and Bratislava are crossed by Danube: what about Belgrade?

I think I want Kamala Harris to explain it. Her explanation of the Russia/Ukraine war was breathtakingly brilliant. I just thought since she knows geopolitics so well, she should know geography too

I can explain it in a few words, "A long river."

Make a video on Ganga river.... Spiritually Devine and life line of north India....

@FactSpark

Жыл бұрын

I did already: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKaksLGkoq3UkdY.html Enjoy!

@Rahul-0019

Жыл бұрын

@@FactSpark thanks brother....

@Rahul-0019

Жыл бұрын

@@FactSpark I'm from patna, BR.... The city which is on the bank of Ganga river....lots of love from 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

the most polluted river in the world.

When defining the Mississippian water shed area, it looks like area at the northeasterly tip was omitted? You did add in the Ohio River, but it appears that both the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers were omitted. The Allegheny starts in New York, wayyyy easterly of the Ohio River. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

The oldest river in north America is the new river. The new river was flowing toward the gulf of Mexico before the Mississippi River did not exist.

@violetsummer2010

Жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing

@antinazi1959

Жыл бұрын

The New River runs from south to North. Einstein!

@schoolssection

10 ай бұрын

????

@steveboguslawski114

9 ай бұрын

The ancient New River existed before Pangea split up. There was no Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico yet, those formed together as Pangea broke apart. Even after Pangea began to pull apart the New River flowed north, not south. That ancient river has been called the Teays River, after the Teays Valley in West Virginia. Today it flows into the Ohio River via the Kanawha River but the Ohio itself is much younger. Ice Age glaciation blocked the old valleys to the north forming lakes along the south margin of the glaciers. Eventually the lakes got deep enough to overflow into adjacent valleys, cutting new channels which would become a major river. Both the Ohio and Missouri Rivers trace out the approximate southernmost edge of those glaciers before reaching the Mississippi.

That's not the natural channel of the river, Pittsburgh to New Orleans is the natural channel.

How big is a kilometer? I'm American.

@FactSpark

11 ай бұрын

About 0.6 miles

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

go back to elementary school.

@m.hughes2521

11 ай бұрын

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 How many kilometers to nagasaki?

Rivers are drainage channels that drain the overflow of rainfall that doesn't soak into the ground. The water flows from higher gound to to the lower ground by gravity. The channel of a river is a series of lowpoints along the path the rivers take to get the water to the sea. The tributaries meet the main river and flow into that river because their channels line is higher than the channels line of the main river. This is the confluence of the two rivers. If when you look at a map or satellite view on Google maps of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers it appears as the Ohio is wider and making a sweeping curve from the east to the south. It shows the Mississippi as a narrower river flowing into that curve. It would from that appear that the Ohio was the main river and the Mississippi was the tributary river. The only way to know for sure which is the main and which is the trib would be to survey the channels to see which channel is lower. We can't do that though in this case, because the US Army Corp of Engineers has messed with the natural flow of the rivers and dredged the bottom of the channels among other things that we can never know which is the real big daddy of them all. The Ohio has my vote as the greater river.

@bradley-eblesisor

11 ай бұрын

By volume the Ohio river contributes roughly 66% and the Mississippi 33% of the combined flow of the two rivers downstream of the confluence. Imop the combined river should be named Ohio. But what do I know?

@rizkyadiyanto7922

11 ай бұрын

​@@bradley-eblesisorok its Ohio River from now on.

I'm from California and everything gets explained by "west of the Mississippi" or "on this side of the country", or "to the east of the Mississippi"

Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry, Taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.

@1_fishin_magician153

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@russellcrea9701

11 ай бұрын

I met her accidentally in St. Paul Minnesota

@archstanton_live

11 ай бұрын

Well I heard my dream went back downstream, cavortin' in davenport,

Why do the rivers of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana go to the Mississippi River and not to Lake Michigan or Lake Superior? Do the lakes sit higher than the surrounding area?

It was created by glaciers from the most recent Iceage less than 12,000 years ago!

@buddysag

10 ай бұрын

This is false. The Mississippi River is 10's of millions of years old.

Nicknamed what? Never heard of that.

FYI Corps is pronounced like core

@ruxanajewoon1120

Жыл бұрын

Yea frenchy not corpse

@jeffjones6951

9 ай бұрын

1:55

Correction: Alberta is not a territory, it is a Canadian province. Canada's three territories-Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut-are much further north

Alberta is a province of Canada not a Territory

@peppertrout

9 ай бұрын

Too bad Alberta isn’t a Republic independent of Canada.

@101stairscouts6

8 ай бұрын

It's Canada...no one cares.

@NathanSeitz

8 ай бұрын

Nerd

@ronh2660

6 ай бұрын

​@@101stairscouts6Alberta is where you get most of your oil

@HeatherRadcliffe-jd8lr

4 ай бұрын

🤡🤡​@@101stairscouts6

Wow

once it drain out the florida coast panama ocean sucking it out entirety is very possible 2 right?

WOW

Excellent comment…!!

river flow drawn down south coast it does work

Initially I thought George Takei was narrating

The center piece of American power

Just here recently has the Missouri River been named the longest river it ain't that much.

For those people who believe the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, I have a question. If that's true, then why don't we have multiple grand canyons all along the course of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers? Especially in light of all the material that's built up the delta in the Gulf over thousands of years? Food for thought.

@jakurdadov6375

10 ай бұрын

Geology. Look into it.

@dougharding5231

10 ай бұрын

@@jakurdadov6375 I noticed you didn't answer my question, Mr. Geology.

@brianmiller1077

10 ай бұрын

The Mississippi hasn't carved it's own channel, it's too young. Mississippi is 10,000-12,000 years old. The Colorado is 8-10 million. People have a hard time thinking in geologic time scales? What do YOU think made the Grand Canyon?

@dougharding5231

10 ай бұрын

@@brianmiller1077 oh, I see. So since we only have one Grand Canyon on the earth, that must mean that the Colorado River is the oldest river in the world -- by millions, apparently. 😁 C'mon, even secular geologists have finally debunked the idea that the Canyon was carved by the Colorado. Get with the times.

@brianmiller1077

10 ай бұрын

@@dougharding5231 You didn't answer my question Mr Geology :)

I am not sure how accurate I should assume this is if they can't correctly pronounce corps.

I can explain the Mississippi. It starts in Minnesota and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. There! End of the video. 😊

I had a friend that wanted to join the Marine Corpse but he changed his mind and enlisted in the Army Corpse of Engineers. 🤣

The word corps is pronounced core, not corpse

@jeffjones6951

9 ай бұрын

1:55

0:41 ..... when i was a kid, the Mississippi _was_ the longes river in the USA. later, they added smaller tributaries, thus extending the Missouri. i call BS.

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