One Hundred and Two River
The One Hundred and Two River near Savannah, Missouri ( 2006)
West of Maryville, Missouri during the flood in May. The river is actually on the extreme right of the screen.
The river by a levee breach in Marysville in May 2007
The One Hundred and Two River is a Quellarm with the longest 145 km long right tributary to the Platte River Missouri River in southwestern Iowa and northwestern Missouri in the United States., Which is also known under the name Hundred and Two River.
According to the National Atlas of the river begins northwest of Hopkins with the confluence of the East Fork One Hundred and Two River and the Middle Fork One Hundred and Two River. Southwest of Hopkins still leads the West Fork One Hundred and Two River a.
The three arms intersect the western extension of the Sullivan line ( border between Missouri and Iowa) at a point of the Kansas River is 101-102 miles from the confluence of the Missouri River north of Kaw Point in Kansas City. Kaw Point is the starting point for measurements in western Missouri.
The Sullivan Line begins exactly 100 miles ( 160.9 km ) north of the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River near Sheridan in 1836 and extended to the west, when the federal government acquired territory of the natives and angliederte to Missouri. The running in the Missouri portion of the One Hundred and Two River runs entirely within this area purchased.
Origin of the name
About the origin of the name there, except for the reference to the Sullivan line further interpretive approaches:
- The author Homer Croy, who chronologisiert life in Nodaway County, leads the names back to the Mormon Trail in 1847, after which the flow was 102 miles away from the previous stock. That statement does not match the coordinates for Mount Pisgah, which is less than 100 miles from the river, but is close to the distance from Hopkins after the then Kanesville, Iowa, which was the starting point of the Mormon Trail. Another version assumes that Brigham Young told his followers, the river was the 102nd river which they had crossed since leaving Navoo.
- Robert L. Ramsay, deals with the etymology of many places in Missouri, assumes that the name is a translation of the earlier French name Rivière cents Deux, which in turn is a corruption of the name of the Osages was, Çondse what ' Upland Forest' means ( the traditionally populated by the Osage area, however, is a good distance south of the river).
Headwaters and run
The three arms of the river rise in Iowa:
- The West Fork One Hundred and Two River rises at Corning in Adams County and flows south through the consistently Taylor County, where the two tributaries open out, known as West Branch and Middle Branches of the One Hundred and Two River.
- The Middle Fork One Hundred and Two River rises at Sharpsburg in Taylor County and flows in a south- southwesterly direction to the city Gravity past.
- The East Fork One Hundred and Two River has its source at Lenox in Taylor County and flows steadily southwestward past the towns of Conway and Bedford.
Each of the three arms reached Missouri in Nodaway County from the Taylor County in Iowa out. They flow together at Hopkins. From this confluence of the One Hundred and Two River always a southward course through the County Nodaway, Andrew and Buchanan, the towns Arkö, Barnard, Maryville and Rosendale follows over. In this section, the river bed is largely channeled. About ten kilometers west of St. Joseph is the mouth of the Platte River.
About the Platte River and the Onehundred Two River is part of the watershed of the Missouri River. A large part of the river was straightened and channelized.