American Rivers by WareD

Newport, Arkansas was a port on one of many rivers of this name, which flows through an eponymous National Wildlife Refuge that once, but likely no longer, contained the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.

This river names an 1862 massacre of pro-Union German settlers and flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Corpus Christi. Mexico once claimed it as its northern border.

This river was likely already there at the orogeny of the Appalachian mountains and thuswinds its course through, rather than down from them, flowing through Asheville before joining the Holston to form the Tennessee.

This river, contained entirely within one state, is the longest in that state at 252 miles. It flows past the state capital and a larger city named for a feature on the river.

This river drains the Willapa Hills and receives its South Fork near a namesake city before turning west and flowing into the estuary of Gray's Harbor at Aberdeen.

This 668 mile long river has tributaries named the Obey, Caney Fork, and Stones River, and forms lakes named for Cordell Hull and Andrew Jackson before flowing into the Ohio upstream from Paducah.

A 76 mile stretch of this river east of Valentine has been designated a national scenic river. It once formed the border between Nebraska and the Dakota territory and its primary tributary is the Keya Paha.

This River's name comes from the Spanish word for Cypress and part of it once formed an international boundary. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico just each of Orange.

The North Fork of this river flows through Zion Canyon in Zion National Park, while this River's "gorge" can be found on Interstate 15 just northeast of Mesquite, Nevada.

This River, formed by the confluence of the Locust Fork and the Mulberry Fork, is the major tributary of the Tombigbee. It takes its name from an English translation of Chief Tuskaloosa.

This River "at Stockbridge" is one of Charles Ives' "Three Places in New England." It is popular for fly-fishing and paddling, especially between Canaan and Gaylordsville.

One River by this name flows out of the Okefenokee Swamp and forms part of the Florida-Georgia border. Another forms the eastern border of Michigan's upper peninsula.