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Rob1150 t1_j93q5nj wrote

That's pretty impressive. How did you come across that??

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Becalm443 t1_j9442cj wrote

How many of us typed Palestine, OH into the search bar straight away?

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Spare-Competition-91 t1_j96hxem wrote

dude, this looks so much worse than I thought now that I have this. ALl the way to the Gulf.

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chad-bro-chill-69420 t1_j94v4tw wrote

I find it amazing that you can drop a pin right near the great lakes and the water still tracks all the way South to the Gulf of Mexico instead of just 50 to 100 miles into one of the lakes then down the St Lawrence river into the Atlantic

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edit: dug more into it and this is a cool map of the flow areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Americas#/media/File:NorthAmerica-WaterDivides.png

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bitslayer t1_j96ne4r wrote

My house in Atlanta was on the eastern continental divide. When you click on my back yard it flows to the Gulf and when you click across the street it flows to the Atlantic.

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chad-bro-chill-69420 t1_j96ompe wrote

That’s wild!

I guess it has to be somewhere!

I’m guessing there aren’t many rivers near you?

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bitslayer t1_j9h6daa wrote

Right, it was a mile or so to the headwaters of the creeks, and then all downhill from there. Back yard: Lullwater Creek>Peavine Creek>Peachtree Creek>Chattahoochee River>Apalachicola River>Gulf of Mexico
Across the street: Sugar Creek>South River>Ocmulgee River>Altamaha River>Atlantic Ocean

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CharlesEduardFromage t1_j95w9k0 wrote

I dropped a pin in Colorado and learned there’s a place along the Green River named Molly’s Nipple.

Took me down a rabbit hole where I learned an early pioneer to Utah named seven peaks, one butte, a well, a lake, and a ranch Molly’s Nipple to commemorate his wife’s nipples.

That’s a lot of nipples! This is the kind of stuff they should be teaching in geography.

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barrelvoyage410 t1_j94g75p wrote

It’s accurate to about 1/2 mile or so.

I live right on the subcontinent divide, have to go 1/2 mile over to get it to register going the other way.

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rededelk t1_j953qqw wrote

Triple Divide? An interesting place to pee

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Spare-Competition-91 t1_j96hplb wrote

This is one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet in a long time. It would be very helpful in many ways I bet to map out chemical spills and such if that got into a waterway. I'm learning about geography too. That's such a cool thing to do. Students in middle school should all be using this.

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restore_democracy t1_j93pguo wrote

Unless, in the process, it’s diverted for irrigation to grow alfalfa to ship to Saudi Arabia. Then it ends up over there.

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cocolocote t1_j98llu0 wrote

East Palestine, OH goes to the Ohio River and then the Mississippi. So fun!

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CeeKayTee01 t1_j95g1fj wrote

That is amazing! Thanks for the link.

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TrulyChxse t1_j972qfm wrote

Wow! This is very cool, thanks for sharing!

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ac-loud t1_j95uez5 wrote

Anything similar for driving trip from say google maps?

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