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Table 1-16: Inland Waterway Mileage: 2011

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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(Includes only the 39 states and the District of Columbia with inland waterways)

State Miles1
Alabama 1,270
Alaska 5,500
Arkansas 1,860
California 290
Connecticut 120
Delaware 100
District of Columbia 10
Florida 1,540
Georgia 720
Idaho 110
Illinois 1,100
Indiana 350
Iowa 490
Kansas 120
Kentucky 1,590
Louisiana 2,820
Maine 70
Maryland 530
Massachusetts 90
Minnesota 260
Mississippi 870
Missouri 1,030
Nebraska 320
New Hampshire 10
New Jersey 360
New York 390
North Carolina 1,150
Ohio 440
Oklahoma 150
Oregon 680
Pennsylvania 260
Rhode Island 40
South Carolina 480
South Dakota 80
Tennessee 950
Texas 830
Virginia 670
Washington 1,060
West Virginia 680
Wisconsin 230
United States, total2 29,620

1Mileages are rounded to the nearest 10 miles.

24,300 miles are counted twice as several waterways are state boundaries.

NOTES: The waterway mileages were determined by the following methodology: Length of channels included were those channels (Corps projects and non-projects) with a controlling draft of nine feet or greater, and had commercial cargo traffic reported for CY 98 of CY99, and were not offshore (i.e. channels in coastal areas included only the miles from the entrance channel inward). Channels within major bays are included (e.g. Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, Long Island Sound, major sounds and straits in southeastern Alaska). Channels in the Great Lakes are not included , but waterways connecting lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway inside the U.S. are included.

SOURCE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, National Waterway Network, personal communication as of March 2013.