Platte River (Missouri)

Map of the rivers in northern Missouri

The Platte River at Platte City, Missouri.

The Platte River at the confluence with the Missouri River at Farley

Extract from the map of Lewis and Clark from 1814, on which the flow is referred to as " Little River plate "

The Platte River is a 275 km long left tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa and northwestern Missouri in the United States.

He is often is to distinguish it from the larger Platte River, which is also a tributary of the Missouri River and in nearby Nebraska, as Little Platte River called. However, the larger Platte River itself has a tributary, known as the Little Platte River.

Run

The Platte River originates near Creston in Union County and flows south through the counties always Adams, Ringgold and Taylor County in Iowa, as well as the counties Worth, Nodaway, Andrew, Buchanan and plate in Missouri. Along its course it passes the towns Maloy, Blockton and Athelstan in Iowa, and Sheridan, Parnell, Ravenwood, Conception Junction, Guilford, Tracy, Platte City and Farley in Missouri. The Platte River flows near Farley, downstream of Leavenworth in the Missouri River.

Several sections of the river have been straightened and channelized.

Inflows

Near its headwaters in Iowa the plate takes on various smaller arms which are known as western Platte River, Middle Platte River, and East Platte River.

In Buchanan County, Missouri the One Hundred and Two River and Third Fork lead a, which rises in Gentry County and southward flows past by the DeKalb County Union Star. In the Third Fork of the Little Third Fork, which flows south through the county DeKalb and Buchanan and leads past Clarksdale opens.

In Platte County lead the Little Platte River, which rises in DeKalb County and past run in a south- southwesterly direction through the Clinton and Clay at Plattsburg and Smithville. In the near Smithville, there is a dam, which the United States Army Corps of Engineers has built and the Little Platte River dams to Smithville Lake.

History

When Missouri entered the Union in 1821, the western boundary of Missouri from Arkansas to Iowa by the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River was determined in the West Bottoms in Kansas City. The country, which lies in the northwest Missouri today was inhabited by the Indians of the tribes of Iowa, Sauk and Fox.

Settlers, the most famous of them was Joseph Robidoux in St. Joseph, began to spread across the country and later settlers in northern Missouri were upset about being cut off from the rest of the state.

In 1836, William Clark brought the Indian tribes to their land for sale in northwest Missouri. This deal, known as disk Purchase, was named after the river. The treaty was ratified in 1837 and the Indian tribes was $ 7,500 paid for an area that corresponded approximately to the area of ​​Delaware and Rhode Iceland. The area was then affiliated to Missouri.

In 1838, the settlers then used the river and also to achieve the Nodaway River, the newly available land. In modern times, the Platte River is not used for transport purposes, but the steamboats loaded in former times, Tracy at.

On September 3, 1861 burned guerrillas down a bridge over the river at St. Joseph and took a train to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad derailed. 17 and 20 people were killed by the Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy between and 200 injured. This was one of the worst attacks on a passenger train during the American Civil War. Union troops burned down Platte City in 1861 and 1864, when they tried to bring the inhabitants to surrender by Silas M. Gordon, who was suspected to have been the instigator of the attack on the train.

The river is the most powerful in the territory of the former For purchases and flows through the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river is a river eighth order.

At the level that is located on the river mile 25.1, the average discharge is 54.5 m³ / s The highest flow was measured on 26 July 1993 during the Great Flood of 1993 with 1070 m³ / s. The lowest value was 0.33 m³ / s, during a dry period in August 1989.

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