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.

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 ...

Océan, Mississippi Watershed,” Floc’h, a French photographer, drove 13,000 miles tracking the river system that touches more ...

Mississippi's longest alligator on record was caught by hunters in 2023 in the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It officially measured 14 feet, 3 inches and weighed 802 1/2 pounds.

Mississippi skies are clear and sunny now, but a threat looms after last week's storms: Likely flooding of the Mississippi River and some tributaries.

Flow levels at the mouth of the Mississippi aren’t controlled by local rainfall, but by the amount of water that enters from the Ohio River, the Missouri River and others farther north. Until ...

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live alongside it. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s ...

Multiple tributaries of the Mississippi River in the Memphis District saw “unprecedented rainfall,” including the St. Francis/Little River basin and the Obion, Forked Deer and Loosahatchie ...

The Mississippi River basin was soaked by a parade of heavy rain events from summer 1926 into the following fall and winter, leaving tributaries such as the Arkansas, ...