Southern Illinois Where Mississippi & Ohio Rivers Meet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2018
- We take a drive in Southern Illlinois from Anna, IL to Cairo Illinois where the Mississippi River and Ohio River meet. For licensing or a mp4 copy of this video without the graphics contact Tampa Aerial Media.
Southern Illinois is such beautiful country, much different than the northern part of the state. It is surrounded by the Mississippi River and Ohio River with some great vintage bridges, as well as modern bridges like the Bill Emerson Bridge in Cape Girardeau. Cairo IL is where the Ohio River ends, into the Mississippi River, at Fort Defiance Park, also known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification
I used to live in Ohio but moved to SE Missouri and these sights are now common to me. It's cool to see them displayed in such a nice video! ❤❤
Thankyou for the nice words
We had plenty of beautiful sites to see and play in growing up in Southern Illinois!
I grew up in Southern Illinois. Nothing but good fun memories. Thanks for this video
I miss camping and swimming at Crab Orchard Lake and hiking at Giant City.
Ya ever bought ice cream or bronze jewlery at Makanda?
Spent many a day around Olive Branch Illinois. Use to be great goose hunting. Those days are gone forever😢
Mississippi, breathes life into so many cities, as it flows into tributaries. The tugboat pushing along the large barges, is truly a marvel of Engineering.
Great video, gives us a real bird's eye view you just can't get any other way. I've driven through Cairo many a time over the years. One trip I drove down to Ft Defiance at about 2:30 in the morning, got out and walked down through the rocks (careful, watch those ankles!) and stood on the very last little tip of land there was - the Ohio on the left, Mississippi on the right, and for 45 minutes I watched 2 huge barge tows going down each river wondering just how they were going to avoid each other and waiting to see what happened. It may seem a small thing to some people, but I thought it was Americana at its best - perfect. Still do.
Yep I agree, thanks Tom
Great video! I liked the "shot" of the barge, the bridge and the train! Very good! Thank you for the upload.
Was in Cairo a few weeks ago. It's nearly gone!
Say , what's nearly gone - I'm planning a trip to that area 🤔
@@montellwilliams811 The town.
3:08 is incredible, watching the water from the two rivers mix
Which river has the most water volume at the junction?
@@bigpardner The muddy one on the left.
@@modeladenny1218 "At the confluence the the Ohio river is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (volume flow rate 7,960 m³/s vs 5,897 m³/s), indeed it appears as the larger river. This evidence led us to the first question: why is the river called Mississippi even though the Ohio tributary has a larger outflow at the confluence? Despite being the mass/volume flow rate one of the criteria that could be used to define a main stream and a tributary in this case the Mississippi is longer than the Ohio river at the confluence (2,000 km vs 1,579 km), so this is probably one of the reason why the main river is still considered the Mississippi. The river length is indeed one of the main criteria used to define a main steam, together with the drainage basin area. - www.earthstartsbeating.com/2018/02/22/mississippi-river-system/
"The Ohio River is a left (east) and the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River in the United States. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi, measured by long-term mean discharge. The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s);[1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m3/s).[33] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River#River_depth
@@bigpardner Thanks. Remember the Mississippi flows from upper Minn to the Gulf. Years ago we swam and waded across it. The closest we got to the mouth was the sign saying southern most point in La.
Gorgeous. America the beautiful.
Great country ,great vid👊💥🔥✌💛
Mississippi River is my dream, i want see one day, my dream is see Mississippi delta, Mississippi and Missouri mouth, Mississippi and Ohio River and source of Mississippi, omg Mississippi and Yangtze River is my favorites i wish see them. Rivers is my hobby from my childhood
Yep the Ohio is a great one, starting in Pittsburgh and going through Cincy.
TampaAerialMedia from my childhood rivers is my hobby always i inerested in rivers and I don’t see wrold’s biggest rivers this is difficult for me because Rivers ar my life only one river i hate this is Nile because i think this is not the longest
I saw the Mississippi River last month passed across it from Memphis TN to Arkansas and it absolutely terrifying because of how big it is
@@saydheriz3647 the waters are ugly color I dont like the river
Long long ago, in another time, my wife and I rode our 1950 Harley from near Peoria, Ill to Burlington. We spent two weeks with a tiny tent riding up to the headwaters then back down the east side to Burlington and home.
The next summer we rode from Ft Madison to the mouth of the Mississippi and back up the other side. In New Orleans we stayed in cheap motels because we were afraid of gators and snakes.
We traveled mostly 2-lanes and of course not always along the river. I'd turn off to checkout as many locks and dams as we could, pitching our tent mostly in secluded areas, behind schools, churches, or small shops. Life was safer 50+ years ago!
Once again we live near the Illinois river. We've driven Rv's from one end to the other many times. We loved rivers, no matter how small.
I’ve driven from Houston to western Kentucky and this is the rout I’ve traveled. I always get so nervous crossing those bridges at night so I try to reach this point before nightfall. 🥺
I would too. It would even make me nervous crossing the Mississippi River Bridge going from Alton, Illinois to West Alton , Missouri . I got used to it after a few times making the trip to St. Louis.
I use to load out in Metroplis . Back when we stood in line to use a pay phone.man things have sure changed!
yes they sure have.
Or use the phone on the table in the local truck stop truckers lounge.
@@TampaAerialMedia I think i like the old way better. Half the fun of being out there was getting away from so called "civilization ". Lol
@@John-lc1uq For sure. We'd go camping to get away from people and electric things. Now to camp you need reservations and RV's are larger than my house. Campsites are only feet apart and everyone needs AC and cable TV.
@@modeladenny1218 heck denny i live on 36 acres in upstate ny. Family members been here since 1879. If I go camping i feel crowded. Spoiled for sure
But I do miss my ole riverbuds from Ill. Kentucky tenn ohio west Virginia. Good folks!
The Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge is beautiful. I like the look of cable stayed bridges.
Thanks for the video. Been there a few times. Awesome place where the two great rivers meet.
Great Miami river dumps into Ohio it has a green mixing with the brown creates a colored seam that is easily noticeable
Interesting to see the different colors of the rivers. I saw a similar thing in Maine once, greenish river water mixing into bluish ocean water of the Atlantic.
Yes the Mississippi is nasty.
@@patriciawarren312they’re both nasty
@@patriciawarren312Indiana causes the most damage to the Ohio River 😿
I love the small town feeling
This Place is indeed a beautiful place
Lovely
Great video!
Thanks for the great trip!
3:08 that bird flyby had me crying in patriotism
After you cross the Ohio River from Illinois the first town you encounter in Kentucky is Wickliffe, which sits at the confluence of the two rivers.
Peaceful. Love your channel
You did a great job with this video! Drones make boring corn fields look beautiful.
Thankyou Riley.
My parents were married in Cairo, IL
Cairo IL is perhaps the saddest town I have ever been to in the US. But there you can stand right on a sharp point of shore with the Ohio on the left and the Mississippi on the right, a point so sharp and well defined you can stand with a foot in each river.
Flint is sadder.
Beautiful video! I love the old bridges down there. I wish Cairo still had a classic hotel; seems like a ghost town now.
Yep true, Cairo did seem like a ghost town.
Cairo died. In fact most of southern Illinois has no jobs or a future. Thank your Illinois politicians.
@@modeladenny1218 Sad, but true. I can't think of a more forlorn, tragically misnamed place than Future City (right outside the big Subway gate, on the wrong side.) Nothing but a few run down houses and empty foundations left. Illinois itself would be so much better off if Chicago aka Chiraq just slid off into Lake Michigan.
That's wild two! Two lane bridges one over the Mississippi and one over the Ohio with massive barges going under them with no dolphins to protect the pillars, makes me nervous just watching the video, lol. You would think we would spend the money to put dolphins around older existing bridges to protect the public and our bridges.
The bridge over the Ohio was built in the early 30's and the bridge over the Mississippi was finished in 1927!!!!! Certified antique!
Welcome to Illinois. Now pay us a $100 tax to your local politician for watching this video
Dont give them any ideas
Not a tax, rather a "fee".
We retired to Florida for 22 years. Loved it there and all the things we could do for little or free. We got old and returned to central Illinois. It's true there are some beautiful places in the state but it's even harder now to afford living here. The "FEES" will go up to cover the millions leaving this overtaxed pituful state.
@@modeladenny1218 you said it brother! This is what Democrats produce. Look at Chicago 93 people got shot there last weekend
@@stairman3151 Even Peoria seems to have a murder every night. Look what happened in Chicago over the 4th. It aint gonna get any better!
Very cool video
Thankyou for nice words you might like our American Rivers video just completed th-cam.com/video/G3W3OftbTKM/w-d-xo.html
This little dog of yours has the life! Heading over to MO at Chester and meandering NW in MO is also neat. A little desolate, but interesting.
Yes she does.
Did you stop and say hello to Popeye and Olive Ole?
Passed through Cairo, IL, twice. A sad, broken little city, one of the worst and unhappiest towns in America. A one-horse town where the horse is dead.
I think it's listed that way in Amerca's dying and dangerous towns.
My understanding is Cairo died after a massive flood happened there. Residences and business moved away!
@@ralphfoster6283 believe it or not the town hasn't had a significant flood since the levy system was built a long time ago. The history on how it got to it's current state is interesting and sad reading.
so america is beatiful beatiful place
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Hate to say it, but Anna, IL. is similar to what Selma Al. was like. Jim Crow is still a way of life in some places.
I dont hate to say it. They're racist as hell.
Interesting place lost of history
Originally the Allegheny, the Ohio and what is now the lower Mississippi was the Ohio River. The Monongahela and the upper Mississippi were tributaries to the Ohio.
The main channel flows from western NYS to NO
It is funny, nearly every confluence Video i find does not take the Time to show the Confluence. Beautiful Movie though.
About 60% of the flow in the Mississippi comes from the Ohio River at Cairo, IL Unfortunately much of the nutrient flow comes out of the Ohio River as well. Also, the Ohio River moves about 240 millions of barge cargo annually, much of which travels farther south on the Mississippi.
We go across the blue bridge to Illinois
It looks like with a sewer water meets the freshwater
Hey there! Would I be able to use your footage with credit in a school project that I am working on?
yes that would be fine.
You should check out pounds hollow its a little old campsite and swimming hole their
Before all the floods, there used to be lots of free Corp of Engineer campsites .
Looks like the Mississippi flows into the Ohio...
Actually, the other way around. Ohio river is tributary of the mighty Mississippi River.
I've wanted to visit this place where one mighty river runs into the great river...though I have always wondered, why isn't it calked the Ohio river past this point? Is or physically the Mississippi? Do you understand what I'm saying?
I guess maybe the the Mississippi wins out because it is alittle longer.
@@TampaAerialMedia Im not sure if you understand my question. Why is it called the misissippi south of Cairo? Why not the Ohio? When two rivers run together wouldn't it be a new river altogether? Or is the Ohio simply feeding the Mississippi? Do you get what Im saying?
I get what you're saying and have wondered the same thing. The Ohio River is normally about 50% larger than the Mississippi at the confluence in terms of water flow. So it's a legitimate question why it isn't called the Ohio River from Cairo to the Gulf. @@nonameyet9165
buckfan1969 because it’s feeds into the Mississippi which is still the larger of the two. Illinois, Missouri rivers etc all are large but it wouldn’t make sense to change the name when it’s tons of rivers and lakes that feed the Mississippi River.
I imagine it's just what was named first. French explorers likely found the Mississippi first from the Great Lakes and it became known by that name. When they later found the more inland and southerly Ohio River, they named it second and since it was more southerly decided it was feeding into the Mississippi instead of the opposite.
They the government could build Low Income housing to Attract businesses and Tenants but too Busy making and Spending the Resources in War making!!!!
Pulling a travel trailer across the two bridges is not fun.
There ain't no easy run son! Remember when Burlington, Ia had a pay bent bridge?
Deserted streets Cairo / Anna IL
That is so sad.
Beautiful, flat,earth,🦎
There is the point
TOM SAWYER BRING ME HERE HEHEHEE HEHE
Amen!
You forgot to showcase the strip clubs on the other side of the road in East Cape
yea if I did that I would violate youtube's decency laws, and we don't want to do that.
I once checked them out for a friend.
Imagine how it looked nationwide before heavy industrialization...lord forgive us.... please lord appoint greater people over us and drain the swamp🇺🇸
That is a long bridge.
There's a longer one near New Orleans and the Florida Keys.
Long live White America.
This sucked it doesn't show the beauty of southern Illinois about 40 miles north of Cairo is southern Illinois that's just rivers and bridges
Should be a separate state from northern Illinois.
Chicago destroyed this beautiful farm state, just like NYC destroyed mine.