Have you been to any of these rivers? Which one did you find most surprising/interesting? Leave a comment below, and thanks so much for watching!

@Uncle_Buzz

6 ай бұрын

GREAT editing dude, and GREAT info too! Fun stuff. Cheers!

@stevepalmberg5905

6 ай бұрын

Which are navigable or not? Ex. Minnesota river has barge traffic Trivia Mississippi stretch in MN has more bridges vs. the rest of it's length

@Jasonbfv

6 ай бұрын

I live about 200 feet from the Mohawk. Very scenic in the Fall

@SlutForInstantNoodles

6 ай бұрын

I was surprised Minnesota wasn't higher, it feels like half of this state is river lol

@Whatthechuckttv

6 ай бұрын

Lived many years in Central Arkansas, including 10 years or so in Benton, which is in Saline (suh-LEEN) County just southwest of Little Rock. I also lived in Hot Springs for a bit near the Ouachita (WASH-i-taw) river.

another classic ChicagoGeographer banger

@GeoMeridium

6 ай бұрын

100%

@christopherhickman-fs8hf

6 ай бұрын

I from down state, agree!

@Debre.

Ай бұрын

@@gusloth Owned. Destroyed. Pulverized, even.

I love how you took the direction of not going “The Mississippi is the longest river, which goes through…”, but instead taking a unique spin to make a learning experience for both yourself and the viewers! Great video and can’t wait to see more edutainment styled content in the future!

0:13 West Virginia cameo

you should do the largest lake in each US state too! (poor maryland...)

@lamontjohnson5810

16 күн бұрын

How dare you talk about my state as such!

Love the variety on the channel, man. One day it's a GeoGuessr challenge video, the next it is an educational one. I love learning about American trivia, and especially the way you teach it. Keep up the good work, man.

The Wisconsin River is such an incredible river, tons of great cities and scenery on it. Love to see it here, especially in the top five!

@sokonek1

6 ай бұрын

And the middle is such a hard working river, the amount of Wisconsin homes that are powered by the Wisconsin let alone the paper industry.

@user-cs6xi1zr7x

5 ай бұрын

I was surprised the Fox River wasn't the largest in Wisconsin

@sunnysmiles6955

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-cs6xi1zr7x That was my first thought was well. Mostly because I live near it so it was the first that came to mind. But then I remembered that it's a tributary of the Illinois River. Meaning it's not self contained in one state. Also, it's only about 200 miles long. Not even close to the length of the Wisconsin. Lol

@user-cs6xi1zr7x

5 ай бұрын

@@sunnysmiles6955 The more you know

@drtee51

5 ай бұрын

@@sunnysmiles6955 There are actually two Fox Rivers in Wisconsin: the one down by the Illinois border, and the one that goes thru Appleton and Green Bay.

Regarding the Kennebec River: The name "Kennebec" comes from the Eastern Abenaki kínipek, meaning "large body of still water, large bay". French explorer Samuel de Champlain navigated the coast of what is now Maine in 1605, charting rivers as well including the Kennebec. The English founded the Popham Colony along the Kennebec in 1607. The settlers built the Virginia of Sagadahoc, the first English ocean-going vessel built in the New World! Bath became known for its shipbuilding industry, and the Wyoming, one of the largest wooden schooners ever built, was constructed there. Regarding the St. Johns River: In the early 1500s, Spanish seamen called the river Rio de Corrientes or river of currents. When the French established Fort Caroline in 1562, they called it Riviere de Mai (River of May) because they arrived there on May 1. In 1565 after defeating the French, the Spanish renamed the river San Mateo to honor the saint whose feast followed the day they captured the river. Later, the river was renamed Rio de San Juan after a mission near its mouth named San Juan del Puerto. Thus, its name was translated into English as the St. John's River.

Great video, learned a lot about US rivers that i didn't know, also thanks for converting the lengths to km too

You have a talent for crafting these listicle-type videos that are actually interesting and relaxing to watch. Whereas other KZreadrs might phone it in by just listing out the rivers in order and calling it a day, you went the extra mile to include other cool facts and geographic context to each river. Not to mention the editing was slick throughout. Keep up the great work! 🫡

I live in one of the towns on Otter Creek in Vermont :) I followed you after finding your Geoguessr videos, but I really enjoy the variety of videos you put out, like these ones!

The production on this is so good! Really interesting and very well presented

This kind of content suits you really well, man. You have a good voice for narration and an honest intellectual curiosity you don't see often in edutainment anymore. I really hope to see more!

This is such a great video CG! Good stuff😊

I really love these kind of videos, you learn so much!

Even though I live far away from the US, I find all of your American centered videos really interesting! The US geography is truly fascinating. Keep on the great work!

Largest lake in each state Not sure if whole lake has to be entirely in state or area claimed by state Ex Great lakes or not?

This video was really fun and interesting. Thanks for putting this together!

Impressive video, tyvm for all the info. I hope you release one with the greatest rivers in the world.

man, such a good video i never thought i needed to watch!

I've been to the Yampa while in Steamboat! Never would have guessed it was the longest river solely in Colorado! Great vid CG!

That's some high quality content. Looks like a good topic for a quiz too.

Really high quality editing & narrating! Love the transitional graphics between states & proud of my Texas at the top :)

Man I can't express I love these edutainment videos, would love to see some more in the future

As a Minnesotan, They liked to teach us that the Minnesota river is the true headwater to the Mississippi, and the map-makers took a wrong turn at Fort Snelling following the Mississippi to it's source. The Minnesota is longer, and has a bigger volume, and therefore (they say) needs to be followed to the true headwater.

@jasonkiefer1894

6 ай бұрын

Gets even longer if you want to follow that Little Minnesota River in South Dakota.

@rosiefay7283

5 ай бұрын

@@jasonkiefer1894 Gets even longer if you adopt the convention that a river's true headwater is the one that gives it the greatest length. Then the Mississippi is really the Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock-Hell Roaring Creek-Brower's Spring.

@deannelson9565

5 ай бұрын

If you want to get really quirky the map makers should have had the headwaters of the Mississippi in Montana due to the fact the Missouri is substantially larger than the Mississippi upstream of where they meet. Hell the Missouri is longer than the whole of the Mississippi combined.

@amarketing8749

Ай бұрын

​@@rosiefay7283 Hell Roaring Creek... What a great name. I have seen a Dead Man's Run Creek and later in the video there is a River called Murder Kill, but i think it was all 1 word. Anybody else have some wild sounding river or creek names?

@SpicyMapping

4 күн бұрын

^this. if you like length, you can argue the “mississippi” should start at the furthest tributary of the missouri, and if you prefer the volume definition then the ohio river would actually be the main stem

You should make more videos like this type

Glad I found this channel. Cheers

Loved this video man!

This was an extremely informative and well-made video!

Enjoyed this. Was surprised. Showed so many rivers that flow into others so really interesting.

Love the video! The picture you showed of the yampa river with the big rock wall on the right (steamboat rock) is actually a picture of the green river but just immediately after the yampa flows into it. If you panned the camera just to the left you’d see the confluence up river

Nice content!

Excellent video! I’ve been tubing on the Farmington River 😄

For the Charles River: The indigenous Massachusett named it Quinobequin, meaning "meandering". The Charles River is named after Charles I, and there's an interesting story about it! This is because when John Smith of Jamestown mapped the New England coast, he called it the Massachusetts River and when Smith presented his map to King Charles I, he suggested that the king should feel free to change any of the indigenous names to English ones. The king made many such changes, but only four survive today, and one of the names that remains today is the Charles River. And it's true that Pepsi was invented in NC! Pepsi was first invented in 1893 as "Brad's Drink" by Caleb Bradham, who sold the drink at his drugstore in New Bern. He graduated from UNC Chapel Hill, but he dropped out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1890, owing to his father's business going bankrupt. After returning to North Carolina, he was a public school teacher for about a year, and soon thereafter opened a drug store. It was renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, with Pepsi chosen because it was advertised to relieve dyspepsia, although it's been said that it's because of pepsin even though pepsin has never been an ingredient of the drink.

@annoyed707

5 ай бұрын

The Charles is the first among local rivers, but nothing to lose your head about.

@HateTheGameTX

5 ай бұрын

Dr. Pepper was invented here in Texas! In Waco, along our beloved Brazos River

Great video very interesting stuff.

Bro this was great! Just stumbled across your vid thanks to the algoritm gods, but you already have a new Subscriber from just south of the James River !

The confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado river is beautiful! The Little Colorado is a bright turquoise color because of the minerals that get dissolved. It's such a stark contrast where it meets the Colorado river.

I tried working these out myself a few years ago, and found it very difficult, as most of them don't have easily accessible information. This is top quality geography research.

Calling yakima and tri-cities large population centers is a big stretch haha

Happened across your channel and really enjoyed the video! I noticed for West Virginia though you chose Greenbrier River, and I'm curious why? I've always been under the impression the Elk River is our longest river around 172 miles long.

as a Texan living in Alaska, thanks for the W, we needed this.

@JonBurrows3577

5 ай бұрын

Even if it’s for the wrong river. 😊 Texas would still hold the title with the actual longest.

Had never given this particular topic any thought even though geography is fascinating to me. As a life long resident of Indiana it surprised me that my state was nearly in the top ten. I was trying to figure out which river would fit the category and it came to me just before you said it. Thanks

Idaho's Salmon River is wild and beautiful. There are jet boats that take visitors to remote fishing & hunting camps.

Awesome content.....as usual!! Next obvious one would be largest lake entirely within each state??

Thanks for this interesting video.

This video was a pleasure. I like how you had kept the States rivers specific to its state, instead of counting rivers that had flowed through many states. I'm surprised that my state, the State of Utah, had come in at the top ten above Colorado and Wyoming. A couple of the rivers that you had mentioned may look dry, but the river water is still flowing below the surface on top of the rock strata. A little side note. Colorado has the title of The Mother of Rivers here in the USA.

I live in New Brunswick, NJ, and the Raritan really wreaks havoc on the city during periods of heavy rain.

Really well presented, so educational! They should show that in schools and kids might start liking geography more

Video idea: largest county in each state

kuskokwim really is fun to say 😄 super interesting and high quality video!

Cool video, thank you. From someone who lives by Nevada's Humboldt River in Elko.

Grand River Michigan has the cities of Jackson, Lansing, and Grand Rapids on it.

About the Kuskokwim River in Alaska. Not sure where you got the 702 miles from. That might be the distance the state calculates as an official roadway during the winter when it is frozen. The approximate 900 miles is the farthest distance that salmon swim up-river from the ocean in the summer. You could probably get up to another 50 to 100 miles beyond that during the rainy season and winter melt when water will flow where its usually dry or frozen.

YAKIMA RIVER MENTIONED WOOHOO Super interesting video, loved all the fun facts for all the rivers!

@socksie2405

4 ай бұрын

Great to see the Yakima mentioned, since the Columbia and Snake weren't eligible.

Keep in mind with the Rio Puerco of central NM is that the dry season here refers to the _cold_ months, around November to March. July through September is hot but very wet thanks to the New Mexican Monsoon, which really gives only three noticeable seasons in the state: the dry season, the windy/sandy season (March to June), and the rainy season. It should also not be confused with the Rio Puerco of northern New Mexico (which also starts in the Jemez), nor the Puerco River in the Navajo Nation of western NM.

This video got a nice flow

@dailthegoat799

5 ай бұрын

Underrated comment

love the effort put into this, very informative!!!

Nice video, Kentucky has the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest artificial lakes east of the Mississippi River.

I thought in order for it to be considered a river it had to be at least 100 miles long.

I understand that you decided to select rivers that flow entirely within each state but I think the Mississippi river should have been mentioned. Within Louisiana alone it flows for 720 miles which is significantly longer than the Calcasieu river.

Grew up in North Dakota. I knew Sheyenne meandered, and it was the only major river to not leave the state. Figured ND had a chance. Kept waiting, and waiting, ended up 3rd longest on list! Only behind the big 2. Rare chance my birthplace gets a good ranking. 😁

@nickskuza6036

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm from ND too and I thought the Sheyenne would be around 400 miles but that meandering really buys it some extra length!

I expected the most obvious answers but was surprised at some, good video, I learned.

Spent a ton of time on the Sacramento River when I lived nearby. Great memories of fishing, tubing, and boating. Lived by the Wisconsin River for a couple of years. Excellent fishing. Rode all over the country in the early 90s (hubby was then a truck driver) and saw a lot of these rivers but many were not memorable or noticed (my fault) but the Platte in Nebraska was distinctive. Of course I saw the Colorado in Texas many times.

@porsche911sbs

5 ай бұрын

what's distinctive about the Platte?

@petuniasevan

5 ай бұрын

@@porsche911sbs it is very very meandering, quite wide and shallow most of its course, and used to be loaded with sediment "too thick to drink, too thin to plow". Now, dams interrupt the sediment and water usage made the Platte not as big as it once was. But it's still an important tributary to the Missouri River, and is a stopover for migrating birds in an otherwise semiarid landscape.

I grew up in Missouri. Did a lot of canoeing. In the late 60's, my dad solo floated the entire canoe-able length of the Gasconade River. I think the trip took him 21 days.

Quality vid CG! Enjoyed it a lot!

oh neat, I was hoping that Yakima River would make it for Washington. I used to raft on it every year. So many good memories.

Well, that was (mildly) more interesting than expected. Good job! You used “irrigated” wrong, though. It’s farmland that irrigated, not rivers, which supply water to be used for irrigation.

A snapshot of the US with all these rivers highlighted at the same time would have been cool.

This has to be one of the few lists where Mississippi doesn't fall into #50 or #49. Of course, this is one of the few things not controlled by people.

cross the flint a lot... glad to see it!

Definitely didn't expect Oklahoma to have 4th place lol

I grew up on the banks of Maine's Kennebec, and I cannot stress just how important that river was and still is to our state. Back during the manufacturing boom, the Kennebec powered mills up and down the river, turning small towns into the booming cities of Richmond, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, Waterville, Skowhegan, Norridgewock, Madison, and Bingham. Now, even tho the mills have shut down, the Kennebec provides electricity to the state and has great recreational, ecological, and cultural significance. Also, the Kennebec carved a valley across the Appalachians, thru which we have built a road connecting central Maine to Québec City. This Kennebec Valley road is one of two main roads connecting Maine to the province of Québec

"its redundantly homicidal name" 😆 didn't expect a tiny lesson on my own language here, hadn't heard of "kille" with that meaning. great job on the video too!

The James River is Virginia's *largest* river. The longest river is the Roanoke River

Curious about the Hudson River in NY not being the longest, I always heard it was over 300 miles in total, does it make up part of the border with NJ?

@someguy31415

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. The very final stretch of the Hudson (where Scully performed his miracle) forms the border between NY and NJ.

Fun little fact about California's Sacramento River, on at least two occasions during the 1980s & 90s, humpback whales have managed to swim up into the river system and were only able to return to the Pacific Ocean with extensive helpful efforts by volunteers, ranging from marine biologists to local fishermen & women..

Since everyone likes to be cute and say the Dakotas should be one state...then the James river would be right up there at 710 miles. I know that's not the rules! Its just a weird little river that hardly anyone knows, nor should they really. It has a low gradient of 5in per mile and regularly flows backwards esp in central SD. Anyway, nice video thank you.

🔥 vid esé

Drove through North Dakota last year and now it makes sense why I crossed that river so much.

Really great topic - and even better limiting factor (entirely within a state)! Would LOVE more biggest-feature-except lists.

I'm surprised that no states hold the title with the Mississippi river. Just because the might Miss is bordering another state, usually half of it is in THAT state, making it all of it contained in that state.

Glad to see Yakima River here since I live right next to it!

I grew up in a town immediately south of the North Canadian River (ironically in a county named for the Canadian River) and am glad to see it get great representation here! It would be a bit longer if it weren't for Lake Eufaula

@dirtfarmer7472

6 ай бұрын

The N Canadian is the Beaver river got miss named when the army sent 2 different troops to survey the Canadian 1 missed & fallowed the Beaver, until Wolf Creek. Oops

I have lived on the sheyenne river in North Dakota my entire life. Wouldn’t have guessed it would make third on this list, though I’m really curious where you took for its headwaters. I know that the south fork of the sheyenne has its headwaters on the lake my church’s campground is located on

Rhode Island’s longest river is actually the Blackstone River which spans 48 miles, followed by the Pawcatuck River at 35 miles and the Wood River at 25 miles.

Living as I do in Austin Texas, I knew our Colorado River would rank up there in the top 2. However, my family was from New Jersey and Mom's family was from north of the Raritan River and Dad's was south - Atlantic City in fact.

Good video

I knew Wisconsin would be up there, but number 5? Wow!

The Colorado is an amazing river. Remeber learning about it as a kid in a museum dedicated to it.

What happens to the list if instead of discounting interstate rivers, you allow them but only the non-state-border portion that is within that state?

I knew the Green River meandered, and guessed it would be longer than the Kentucky River (which left the state out of the eponymous longest river club), but I had no idea it would put the state into the top 10.

Did you ever create one about longest river in each state irrespective if river spans multiple multiple states? Also has to be the relative length of the river within the state not total length

Throwback vibes

The Humbolt river in Nevada sometimes dries up in the summer.

9:22 Nebraska and Florida's percentage of sandy soils are probably very similar

love these names

As a native Austinite, I grew up going on my family’s boat most summers on what we called “Lake Austin”. It’s really a section of the Colorado which is dammed on both sides and mostly runs through the city and the greater Austin Area. One of the most famous landmarks on it partway through is the Pennybacker bridge. The tail end features one of the city’s landmark restaurants, Hula Hut, which is related to the nationwide Tex-Mex chain Chuy’s which was originally founded in Austin. After that, there is a dam before what is now Lady Bird Lake (originally called Town Lake). Lady Bird Lake is where Austin’s famous bat bridge is located which has the largest Lake Austin is one of the city’s three most well-known lakes used for recreational purposes along with Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis, all of which are actually parts of the Colorado River! I don’t really know what compelled me to write all this, except to say that the Colorado is an extremely important River to the city of Austin and to my childhood, so it’s nice to see it atop this list 🙂

@sharpieman2035

6 ай бұрын

Also if anyone else has questions about the River, feel free to leave them below! One of my family members actually works at the LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority) which is responsible for administering water levels and usage along the river, and I have many other factoids I can spout about it if anyone is interested to hear me ramble 😂

Also Nebraska also gets its name from the Platte river as well, as its an anglicized way of say the native american words for the platte river meaning flat water

The Murderkill river reminds me that there is a town in Romania called Nădrag (pants in the Transylvanian dialect), on the Wikipedia page there is no mention of the peculiar name like its complety normal Atleast the Ceparii Pământeni ( human onion farmers) page says that the place name used to to meant non-serf onion farmers in Old Romanian

Wisconsin resident here, I knew it was long but holy shit