chad-bro-chill-69420 t1_j94v4tw wrote on February 19, 2023 at 6:37 AM

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

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

bitslayer t1_j96ne4r wrote on February 19, 2023 at 5:39 PM

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.

chad-bro-chill-69420 t1_j96ompe wrote on February 19, 2023 at 5:48 PM

That’s wild!

I guess it has to be somewhere!

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

bitslayer t1_j9h6daa wrote on February 21, 2023 at 11:09 PM

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