U.S. cities without rivers or natural bodies of navigable water: Can you name any? (agricultural, property)

[BearBranch]

Fresno, CA

[Katarina Witt]

Denver is on the Platte River. There is also Cherry Creek running through town. I'm not certain about the navigability of either.

[recycled]

Originally Posted by kyndallr

Dallas TX has the Trinity River (usally dry), Oklahoma City has the North Canadian River, Atlanta has the Chattahoocee, and Phoenix has the Salt River

True, Phoenix has the Salt River, which actually has some water running down it a few times a year during a few rainstorms. I don't count that as a river in the sense that a river should have enough water running down it most of the year to at least float a canoe or rubber raft. The Salt River is all dammed up in the mountains east of the city to store up drinking water for Phoenix, and they don't let much of it flow downstream.

[Stagger Lee]

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

Denver is on the Platte River. There is also Cherry Creek running through town. I'm not certain about the navigability of either.

I doubt you can really navagate any of those. However, Denver was founded because where the Cherry Creek met the Platte. Even though they are small, they helped build that town in the 1800s because of the gold rush. I don't really consider them large bodies of water though. Most places they are considered cricks, or creeks.

[darstar]

The Cities without major waterways, are places that man has built for his entertainment, not his subsistence. Think about it, Las Vegas, Orlando,there are others.......

[Colts]

Does Phoenix count? I'm not sure if there's a non-navigable river, let alone some kind of creek running through town that always has water in it.

[ajf131]

Originally Posted by Hatless Wonder

Columbus, Ohio. It became Ohio's capital because it was in the geographic center of the state.

Phoenix, Arizona

Columbus has the Scioto River. Probably not navigable though.

[saykinriseo]

I live in Wisconsin and some cities I can think of are:

1. Hortonville (about 15 miles outside of Fox Cities, it has the Black Otter River, really just a small stream and Black Otter Lake, probably the smallest body of water to be called a lake and weed-choked and nasty on top of it...hardly navigable)

2. Greenville (about 5 miles outside of Fox Cities, it has a very small stream)

3. Waupun (about 10-15 miles outside of Fond du Lac, it is Wisconsin's prison town of about 10,000...it has two maximum-security prisons, a minimum-securtiy and a medium-security just 7 miles away...but it has absolutely no water)

4. Ripon (also about 10-15 miles outside of Fond du Lac, home of Rippin' Good cookies...and yet no water...I think about 5,000-6,000 people live there)

[Raphael07]

what about the largest city without a river period?

[neonwattagelimit]

Originally Posted by Go Ne

what about the largest city without a river period?

Or oceans, or lakes, or bays. I've wondered this myself. It Las Vegas? I could be wrong.