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The Ohio River Flood
The Ohio River Flood

The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi river itself. The Ohio River Valley is located in Eastern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania. In January 1937 there was a great flood. The Ohio River, which was usually high in the winter, spilled over, causing more than $75 million worth of damages. The river had seemed harmless, but conditions of unusually high water, snow melting in the mountains, eighteen straight days of precipitation, and the low level of the towns of Shawnee town and Cairo combined so that these two small towns were almost completely covered by water.