What are the largest Metros that aren't on or along a large body of water/river.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by iMarvin

Phoenix is the largest metro area but Houston is the largest city.

So the Gulf of Mexico isn't water anymore?
someone better call CNN

[iMarvin]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

So the Gulf of Mexico isn't water anymore?
someone better call CNN

Look at Houston's city limits. It doesn't touch the Gulf. The metro area does though. That's why I said the largest CITY.

[Slyman11]

Originally Posted by iMarvin

Look at Houston's city limits. It doesn't touch the Gulf. The metro area does though. That's why I said the largest CITY.

Try using Google sometime or Wikipedia..

Houston Ship Channel inside city boundaries of Houston, 5 miles off Galveston Bay

[msamhunter]

The White River is damned in the broad ripple section of the city to purposely hold back water to supply the canal but the White River runs along the western edge of downtown

Doing a google and Bing of Indianapolis the river is very evident even zoomed out.

[westhou]

Originally Posted by iMarvin

Look at Houston's city limits. It doesn't touch the Gulf. The metro area does though. That's why I said the largest CITY.

But it does touch Galveston Bay. Also the Houston Ship Channel is extremely important to the United States and it's in the city limits.

[A2DAC1985]

Originally Posted by msamhunter

The White River is damned in the broad ripple section of the city to purposely hold back water to supply the canal but the White River runs along the western edge of downtown

Doing a google and Bing of Indianapolis the river is very evident even zoomed out.

No it isn't. If you pull up a Google map, and make sure you are zoomed out far enough that the scale in the bottom left corner is set for 5 miles, you can't see the White River. You can barely see Eagle Creek and Geist Reservoir.

When looking at Phoenix, for example, with a scale in the bottom left corner that is 5 miles, you can clearly see a river/lakes that far zoomed out.

The point is, the White River isn't anything. It may have been a crucial part of life/trade in the 1800's, but in the 20th and 21st century it can't be used for anything.

Think of it this way: Everybody (just pretend) wants to go for a swim, and people gravitate to places that have swimming facilities.

New York, L.A., Boston, Washington D.C., Miami, Seattle, San Francisco all have multiple Olympic sized swimming pools in their backyards. Houston, Tampa, Chicago have one Olympic sized swimming pool in their backyards. Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Memphis have a fire hose hooked up to a fire hydrant. Las Vegas and Phoenix have bath tubs. And Indianapolis has a mop bucket half-full of water.

Could any of those other cities be what they are today if they only had Indy's half-full mop bucket to cool off in?

[cacto]

Phoenix does have a river going through it, it's called the Salt River. It is dry now though before it was dammed it flowed all year long. Early white settlers talked about beavers in what was to become Phoenix,which seems surreal now. The dams along the river to the east of PHX created 5 decent sized lakes/reservoirs, the largest being the pretty large Roosevelt Lake. All the tens of thousands of fisherman and boat owners in PHX would be a little confused by the claim that there is no bodies of water by PHX. The Salt River is the reason PHX is the largest city in AZ.