A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River and its tributaries. One popular example was shared to X (archived) on ...

At 2,350 miles long, the Mississippi is the second-longest river in North America, behind its biggest tributary, the Missouri River, which is 100 miles longer, according to the National Park Service.

The longest river in North America, the Mississippi River, along with its major tributaries, drains an area of almost 1.2 million square miles and carries water from nearly one-eighth of the ...

Further downstream, the Missouri and Ohio rivers — both major tributaries of the lower Mississippi — are seeing normal to below-normal chances of spring flooding.

Downstream from Memphis, flood waters pouring in from the Arkansas River, Yazoo River, and other tributaries are expected to swell the Mississippi high enough to beat the all-time record at ...

A side-by-side comparison below shows similarities and differences between the two maps. For one, the American Rivers map (on the left) shows the structure of Mississippi River tributaries, or the ...