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Criteria for designation

• The characteristics of the natural, economic, agricultural, scenic, historic, cultural, or recreational resources of the river that render it distinctive or unique;
• The effectiveness with which the community has defined its plan of action and the extent to which the plan addresses, either through planned actions or past accomplishments, all three American Heritage Rivers objectives;
• The strength and diversity of community support for the nomination as evidenced by letters from elected officials; landowners; private citizens; businesses; and especially State, local, and tribal governments. Broad community support is essential to receiving the American Heritage River designation; and
• Willingness and capability of the community to forge partnerships and agreements to implement their plan to meet their goals and objectives.

Designated rivers

• Blackstone
  Blackstone River
  
  The Blackstone River is a river in the United States states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It flows approximately 80 km and drains a watershed of approximately 1,400 km² ....
   and Woonasquatucket
  Woonasquatucket River
  
  The Woonasquatucket River is a river in the United States state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 31 km and drains a watershed of 130 km? ....
   Rivers (MA, RI)
• Connecticut River
  Connecticut River
  
  The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through Western Massachusetts and central Connecticut into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, Connecticut....
   (CT, VT, NH, MA)
• Cuyahoga River
  Cuyahoga River
  
  The Cuyahoga River is located in Northeast Ohio in the United States. Outside of Ohio, the river is most famous for being "the river which caught fire", helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s....
   (OH)
• Detroit River
  Detroit River
  
  The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system, about 32 miles long and 0.5 to 2.5 miles wide. The name comes from French language Rivi?re du D?troit, i.e....
   (MI)
• Hanalei River
  Hanalei River
  
  The Hanalei River on the Hawaiian island of Kauai flows north from eastern slopes Mount Waialeale for 17 miles until entering the Pacific Ocean at Hanalei Bay as an estuary....
   (HI)
• Hudson River
  Hudson River
  
  The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York....
   (NY)
• Lower Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  
  The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
   (LA, TN, AR)
• Wolf River
  Wolf River (Tennessee)
  
  The Wolf River is a small alluvial stream in West Tennessee and northern Mississippi, whose Confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, Louisiana , Spanish colonization of the Americas#North America and American communities and forts that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee....
   in metropolitan Memphis
  Memphis, Tennessee
  
  Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
   is bundled with the Lower Mississippi.
• Potomac River
  Potomac River
  
  The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
   (DC, MD, VA, WV)
• New River (NC, VA, WV)
• Rio Grande
  Rio Grande
  
  For the railroad often known as the Rio Grande, see Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.The Rio Grande River in the United States, known as the R?o Bravo in Mexico, is a river, long, is the fourth longest river system in the United States and serves as a natural boundary along the border between the U.S....
   (TX)
• St. Johns River
  St. Johns River
  
  The St. Johns River is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida, stretching 310 miles from Indian River County, Florida to the Atlantic Ocean in Jacksonville, Florida in Duval County, Florida....
   (FL)
• Upper Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  
  The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
   (IA, IL, MN, MO)
• Upper Susquehanna
  Susquehanna River
  
  The Susquehanna River is a river located in the northeastern United States. At approximately 444 mi long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States and the 16th longest in the United States....
   and Lackawanna
  Lackawanna River
  
  The Lackawanna River is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately 35 mi long, in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States....
   Rivers (PA)
• Willamette River
  Willamette River
  
  The Willamette River is a tributary of the Columbia River. The name derives from a similar Clackamas Indian village name. The river is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States....
   (OR)

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