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Red River atchafalaya river name change?
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:23 pm
I’m looking at a map of Louisiana and it looks like the Red River is the Atchafalaya River. It changes names right where it flows into the Mississippi. Why does basically one river have 2 names?
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Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:27 pm to white perch
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Why does basically one river have 2 names?
Because it’s 2 rivers. Just because 2 rivers are connected, doesn’t mean they are the same river. Same with oceans.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:28 pm to white perch
Red, White, and Blue River? 
This post was edited on 5/21/25 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:29 pm to white perch
Red River was a tributary of the Mississippi. The Atchafalaya is a distributary of the Mississippi. Atchafalaya took the flow of the Red from the Mississippi.
This post was edited on 5/21/25 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:30 pm to white perch
Cane River
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:30 pm to white perch
Because the Old River Control Structure calls the shots. You got a problem, take it up with the ORCS.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:31 pm to white perch
Why aren't all the rivers just called the Mississippi River?
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:31 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Atchafalaya took the flow of the Red from the Mississippi.
Being from Shreveport, more like the Red River brutally took 30% of the Mississippi River to pound town, and their offspring is the Atchafalaya River.
In the Red River's quest to pound town all he who dare get in his way, the Ouachita River also found itself succumbing to the Red River's wrath, forcefully demanding ye river combination maintain the 3 letter name, which is what he only sees, Red.
This post was edited on 5/21/25 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:33 pm to S
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Cane River
Is a lake
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:33 pm to white perch
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:35 pm to FutureMikeVIII
I vote to rename the Miss River through Baton Rouge as the Red Stick River
This is Louisiana, not Mississippi!
This is Louisiana, not Mississippi!
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:35 pm to FutureMikeVIII
In a way, the creation of Shreveport is the demise of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. How it was always meant to be. Removing all the log jams along Red, 3 rivers area, and Atchafalaya formation, to get to and create Shreveport, is what eventually made the Atchafalaya take on more of the Mississippi, which eventually will cause the MS River to go to Atchaf. Maybe centuries, thousands of year down the road.
This post was edited on 5/21/25 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:38 pm to Saunson69
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aybe centuries, thousands of year down the road.
Or maybe next year. Who knows?
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:39 pm to AlextheBodacious
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Because it’s 2 rivers. Just because 2 rivers are connected, doesn’t mean they are the same river. Same with oceans.
and college drive, lee drive and brightside are all the same skreet.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:40 pm to white perch
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Why does basically one river have 2 names?
Red offends the commies, baw, keep up
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:42 pm to white perch
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Why does basically one river have 2 names?
Checkered past.
Witness protection program.
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:42 pm to white perch
Fun fact: it's Red River, not "The Red River" and never "The Red."
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:48 pm to white perch
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I’m looking at a map of Louisiana and it looks like the Red River is the Atchafalaya River. It changes names right where it flows into the Mississippi. Why does basically one river have 2 names?
If the Red River is flowing directly into the Mississippi......
....."we got biiiiigggg trouble....."
Posted on 5/21/25 at 3:53 pm to fr33manator
quote:Why isn't the Mississippi River called the Louisiana River?
Why aren't all the rivers just called the Mississippi River?
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