Tradewater River
Template:Short description Template:Use American English
The Tradewater River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". long,[1] in western Kentucky in the United States.[2] It drains an area of Script error: No such module "convert". in the limestone hills south of Evansville, Indiana, between the basins of the Cumberland River on the west and the Green River on the east.[3]
Description
It rises in northern Christian County, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". north of Hopkinsville. It flows generally northwest in a tight meandering course, past Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park, where a tributary is impounded to form Lake Beshear just upstream from its mouth on the Tradewater. It flows past Dawson Springs and joins the Ohio from the southeast approximately Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Sturgis.
At Providence, the Tradewater has a mean annual discharge of 1,070 cubic feet per second.[4]
The river has a low gradient with a gentle flow along much of its course. It forms a rough boundary between the Shawnee Hills physiographic region to the northeast and the Pennyroyal physiographic region to the southwest. The Shawnee Hills region is underlain by Pennsylvanian limestone, sandstone, and shale which contain deposits of coal. The Pennyroyal region, which is drained by tributaries of the upper Tradewater, is a dissected upland plateau underlain by Mississippian limestone bedrock.
By 1990, heavy mining activity in the region had filled the river with silt.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 13, 2011
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Script error: No such module "If empty".
- ↑ Kleber, John E. (ed.) (1992). The Kentucky Encyclopedia, p. 892. The University Press of Kentucky. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".