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The Great Miami River (also called the Miami River) (Shawnee: ''Msimiyamithiipi'' ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long,〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed May 19, 2011〕 in southwestern Ohio in the United States. The Great Miami flows through Dayton, Piqua, Troy, Hamilton, and Sidney. The river is named for the Miami, an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of European settlement. They were forced to relocate to the west to escape European-American settlement pressure. The region surrounding the Great Miami River is known as the Miami Valley. This term is used in the upper portions of the valley as a moniker for the economic-cultural region centered primarily on the Greater Dayton area. The lower portions of the Miami Valley fall under the influence of Cincinnati and the Ohio River Valley; residents of the lower area do not identify with the Miami in the same way. ==Course== The main course of the Great Miami River rises from the outflow of Indian Lake in Logan County, about southeast of the village of Russells Point, approximately southeast of Lima. Indian Lake is an artificial reservoir which receives the flow from the North and South forks of the Great Miami River. It flows south and southwest, past Sidney, and is joined by Loramie Creek in northern Miami County. It flows south past Piqua and Troy, and through Taylorsville Dam near Tipp City and Vandalia. It continues through Dayton, where it is joined by the Stillwater and the Mad rivers and Wolf Creek.〔 From Dayton it flows southwest past Miamisburg, Franklin, Middletown and Hamilton in the southwest corner of Ohio. In southwestern Hamilton County it is joined by the Whitewater River approximately upstream from its mouth on the Ohio River, just east of the Ohio-Indiana state line, approximately west of Cincinnati. The river meanders across the state line near Lawrenceburg, Indiana in the last two miles (3 km) before reaching its mouth approximately ¼ mile east of the border in Ohio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Miami River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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