Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi & A Sand Volcano - New Madrid Bend - Neck of Kentucky or Bubbleland

[@L.D.Intheditch]

Very interesting. I never heard of a sand volcano before. Thank You.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

They are also called "sand boils".

[@cagle67]

I was born and raised about 3 miles from REELFOOT LAKE. This area I will always carry in my heart.... One beautiful creation!.. Around here, those sandy spots are called sand blows.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks, I didn't hear that term until after I made the video.

[@AdventuresBeginHere409]

I lived out at Donaldson Point, east of New Madrid. As a young boy when all this land would flood, our house was on stilts. High off the ground, water would pat the floor till the water would resede.1958 went to the old Hickerson country school. My teacher was Ms. Allison the School was later moved to New Madrid where it now sits for all to see. Thank you for the history love it!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

You have some interesting history yourself.

[@AdventuresBeginHere409]

@@TravelsWithPhil Thank you for your comment, you do a great job, and it is appreciated.

[@tantraman93]

Higgerson School.

[@AmandaBAndrews]

I watched the Higgerson School being moved, with a tractor, to its current location. Came down the levee, in front of the Bank & they had to lift the electric lines for it to fit under. Quite the sight!

[@WiseSnake]

You were very close to Big Oak Tree State Park, a protected area that contains one of the last remnants of the virgin bottomland hardwood forest that used to dominate the bootheel region. Lots of very old trees there.

[@juancuatrolados8527]

Very good job of explaining, thank you! I can still see my grandpa, Harold Henry, with my older brother paddling one of those old boats made of two car hoods welded together. The weld broke and they sank about 50 yards offshore. Reelfoot Lake ca. 1950.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Wow ! That's a unique way to make a boat. I took a welding class about 30 years ago. I wouldn't trust my weld to hold up in water.

[@jakedrago7805]

Mississippi River geology is among the most fascinating as it happens fast over years and decades unlike most geology which happens over millions of years

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Very true

[@cherylwinstead9261]

Liked this. Many do not realize it is an active area.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Potential to be much more active, too

[@eds5881]

I grew up very close to New Madrid MO. Those sand volcanos/sand blows are called sand boils. As during the earthquake the sand gave the appearance of boiling up.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks for the extra term.

[@randysabel]

So does farming crops just go right over the sand blows? Sand blows are visual from the ground level. I would almost think that after all these years with farming activity the soils would have blended and all look alike?

[@danielquimby8924]

A very nice little piece of history and I'm glad to have learned it. Thanks for sharing.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Suncast45]

I grew up in Paducah and have been there several times. Never realized it looks like a colon polyp, LOL

[@TravelsWithPhil]

And you didn't need a colonoscopy to find out ! :-)

[@VooDoo31818]

My grandma and her family lived in union Tennessee when she was 8 years old her family traveled into New Madrid and settled in Missouri

[@jasontaylor9702]

Such a great job! You can tell how much you love doing this

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you. You are very kind.

[@Dgoldsweeps4002]

Wow ....raised my whole family here in Elizabethtown Ky and never knew this history...cool. I think we will take a family trip out there .

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Many of the overhead shots I showed are on private property. The street scene is public, though.

[@tracyruth4247]

Very cool and informative! TY!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Glad you liked it!

[@GoodatNaps]

My ancestors helped settle this area. At least one of their family cemeteries is now under water due to the river.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Interesting. Some of my Cherokee ancestors crossed the river here when the Cherokees were removed from Georgia to Oklahoma in the 1830s.

[@Idrinklight44]

Road sign was very helpful!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@garry1214]

I enjoyed this video. I knew this bend existed but did not know much about it, thanks for posting.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

My pleasure.

[@jimzepf3910]

First time watcher,never heard of this before very informative I'll watch for your videos tks for the education

[@TravelsWithPhil]

hank you. I enjoy doing these.

[@bonzie321]

Very nice video. Thank you.

[@jondoealoe]

I paddled a canoe around that bend on my way down the Mississippi. I was very tempted to portage it.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

That would have been interesting.

[@jondoealoe]

@@TravelsWithPhil New Madrid was interesting! In a bar there, I met a guy who did the Mississippi on a raft once and in a Jon boat once. I also met a man who broke his leg wrestling with a bear. Most of my trip, I met people who admired what I was doing. I met kindred spirits in New Madrid.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Very exciting. There are lots of folks who go out and do things. @@jondoealoe

[@lynnglidewell7367]

One point you missed making was that in order to reach the Kentucky portion of the river bend you have to go to the small town of Tiptonville Tennessee to access the road that goes up into it. Otherwise only reached by ferryboat.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I came in from the north and used Cates Landing Road. But, yes, many people would come through Tiptonville.

[@randyferrell6365]

Is there a ferry in that area?

[@lynnglidewell7367]

@@randyferrell6365 Yes, Ferry at Hickman KY

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Yes, it is called the Dorena-Hickman Ferry. - Here is my video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4WTqI2srMyJm6c - @@randyferrell6365

[@ernestclements7398]

Yes and if you proceed West out of Tiptonville you will cross the river at Hayti Missouri but immediately after passing through Hayti you will be in Arkansas, i once took that route to Branson Missouri by way of Mountain Home, Yellville, and Harrisonville it was a beautiful trip in the late fall.

[@tripler3724]

I traced my family back to the early 1800s in New Madrid to my father. He left with his family after one too many floods. In 1976, I was transferred to our district office in Dexter and assigned to work in New Madrid where I worked for many years. I was often in the town itself where the sheriff's office and courthouse were only a few blocks from the levy. It is an interesting area with a lot of history.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Keeping those family ties intact

[@tripler3724]

@@TravelsWithPhil Yep and I wish I knew more.

[@boogitybear2283]

I recently visited the Kentucky Bend but I was scared out of my mind thinking that Earthquake was going to occur any second!

[@indigomarine91]

You must have been a kid

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I was a bit anxious during my first trip to California, too

[@whyaskwhybuddry]

@boogitybear2283, I expect it will this coming April when the Solar Eclipse will form an "X" with the 2007 Eclipse.

[@bullhead900]

@@TravelsWithPhil With good reason!

[@SampleroftheMultiverse]

Did not know that. Cannot wait to share with friends.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@danherrmann8755]

Thanks for info. I will add to my bucket list.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Have fun!

[@dustydawson2384]

Sand “boils” happen when the river gets really high. They’re caused by groundwater rising to the surface. The water level will be higher on the River side of the levee.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks. Good to know.

[@Emslander]

The Mississippi will be exactly what it wants to be, as it wants it. Another commenter said that the bend will one day close and cut out the oxbow. There are many of those along the River south of there. It could happen in the next high water, maybe this coming spring.

[@Tara-sf7uu]

The guy on the mower was just trying to be Agent Hillbilly 007 and see why you were there. I live in west Tn, and when new folks visit my neighborhood, suddenly 3 riding mowers crank up and it looks like the Cub Cadet task force is on a recon mission 😂

[@TravelsWithPhil]

LOL. I was actually contacted by someone here who said it was their father's dog.

[@danielfrondorf8104]

I've always found this part of the world interesting for many of the same reasons explained in the video, and I got to visit there in 2012 on my way back from a business trip.....much of the soybean fields at that time were planted in cotton; there is a flood protection berm along a long stretch of the east side of the bend, and also a small cemetery that is accessible from the main public road, otherwise not much to see except the wide open space of middle America; excellent video - thanks for sharing!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I saw the marker for the cemetery. Mark Twain talked about a six generation feud here in his book Life on the Mississippi. I wonder if any of those folks in the cemetery are from that feud.

[@ZilsR922]

Thanks have always wanted to see that area.

[@stan1027]

Similarly in Kentucky, just as that part is cut off by the Mississippi River, if you look at a map of Russell County, Ky, you will see that a part of the county is entirely cut off from the rest by Lake Cumberland, the area around Jabez, Ky and parts that are on the south side of the lake

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Geography sure can be interesting

[@morefiction3264]

How long before the river cuts off that bend and leaves New Madrid on an oxbow lake instead of the river?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

It ranges from tomorrow, to Who Knows.

[@259Brew]

I remember kayaking that spot. it was a pain to do. I almost portaged my kayak to skip it

[@TravelsWithPhil]

That would save some distance, to be sure

[@lorindastrouse599]

Love this!! You should go to Reelfoot Lake

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I wish I had made it there.

[@Idrinklight44]

Ever in this area, try and visit Big Oak Tree state park in Missouri. This whole area was covered in trees of this size.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Sounds like an interesting place.

[@billguernsey6419]

I live in Murray Ky just over the Tenn line the land has huge amounts of pure clean sand. Pretty different from our clay.

[@jeffmatson2046]

Excellent job! I truly Enjoy maps of kinds as well. Keep up the good works.💪

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[@timsexton]

Very compact & informative. Thank You !!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

You are very kind

[@michaelleroi9077]

More often than not are mounds at river bends as in Horseshoe Lake to Monks Mound in Illinois. Any records of mounds there?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

There is a place called "HOWARDVILLE INDIAN MOUND", between New Madrid and Howardville: mapcarta.com/21129528 --- There are also other sites in the county: mostateparks.com/page/84801/new-madrid-county-national-register-listings

[@kbrewski1]

The New Madrid EarthQUAKES (emphasis plural) happened over a 2 year period in 1811-12. A lot of tremors, then the big ones, then the aftershocks. So not all that changing of the Miss River path happened overnight with 1 quake. It was a series of quakes.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I agree

[@uhtredsonifuhtred5664]

I spent the first 6 years of my life in Kentucky Bend, some call it Bessie Bend or Kentucky Island. The houses in your video are family.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Nice to meet you.

[@blakespower]

if you look at the satellite view of the Mississippi river flood plain is vast! it used to be like the Amazon River of North America where entire forests would be flooded for part of the year replenishing the soil

[@TravelsWithPhil]

And then add in the Missouri, and it is even more massive

[@Nomed38]

The knob. I've always wanted to see a surveyor's map of that region from before the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake happened.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

"The Knob" is a good description

[@baashtone7092]

Even though you may have been slightly mistaken about some of your historical facts and observations, this was a very good presentation. Thank you.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks. Yes, I made it sound like the 1812 earthquake destroyed Island 10, which was still there during the Civil War. Bad verbiage use on my part. "Sand Boils" is also perhaps the most commonly used local term, too.

[@dogmosatchmo]

Super interesting!!!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@charlietanner6211]

if that miss ever blows thru that short bend ive heard it will make miss impassasble due to current was there in late 70s neat seeing allthe tows on that bend the night we were there there was 23 tows on that bend

[@augustinpicard4042]

I grew up in western Kentucky….I found this very interesting

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks.

[@scottnielsen1553]

A few years ago, I wondered why Missouri had that " boot heal" and why did this not belong to Arkansas. I suspected the earthquakes had something to do with this. I found that indeed the earthquakes of 1811 & 1812 were the cause. The earthquakes really devastated the whole area. In addition, there were aftershocks that went on for years. As a result, settlers abandoned the region for the most part. This one guy bought up most of the boot heal. He wanted his land to be in Missouri, not Arkansas, so he lobbied in Washington, and made this happen. As this area developed, the immediate New Madrid area lagged behind the rest of this area by half a century, because no one wanted or were hesitant to live in the immediate area of the quakes. This is what my research indicated generally.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I read the same thing. History can be really interesting and individual-driven at times.

[@Paul71H]

Very interesting. By the way, it's the "bootheel" rather than "boot heal" (because it resembles a literal boot heel).

[@billwilson-es5yn]

What's odd is that nobody knew where the earthquakes were occurring until a year after the last ones happened. The region was sparsely settled and the majority of the raftmen drowned when the big river went wild. One raft carrying a businessman to New Orleans mansged to stay intact and complete it's journey wiere the businessman recorded the ordeal to present to a newspaper on the east coast once home. His account is online at a website about the New Madrid Earthquakes. President Jefferson had Congress provide money for the townspeople of New Madrid to rebuild on higher ground, which made them the first recipients of federal disaster aid. More survivors told about their experiences during the earthquakes after eastern newspaper reporters arrived there. Several said the river ran backwards when the riverbed rose to create a waterfall with others saying the river would drain into huge crevasses that opened up then shoot back out into the air when the crevasses closed back up. Crevasses would open and close on land so the settlers felled trees across those to climb into once the ground started shaking again. Coal would shoot out of the crevasses so the settlers picked up the chunks over the years to burn during the winter.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Very interesting. Thanks for the extra information

[@builderman912]

curious how the giverment works in that area? for instance, the guy in kentucky calls 911....cops come from?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Good question. My assumption is the calls are routed to the nearest city with a police/fire department. So few people live in the "bubble" I would not think there would be many calls.

[@davim1979]

I wonder if the post office from Ky handles that mail or if Tn would?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I would expect Tennessee, as the closest town with a post office is in Tennessee.

[@dillonjohnson3106]

I’m from the area and have always been told the reason the river ran backwards was due to the flowing of water into the new reelfoot lake, from the Mississippi River. But I could be wrong. Just what Ive grew up hearing

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Both reasons could be correct

[@davidholman6276]

Technical term for such a piece of territory is an exclave

[@Paul71H]

What amazes me is that the river hasn't yet cut across that thin neck of land (just south of the KY/TN border), and turned the bend into a horseshoe lake, separated from the river. But I suppose that will happen eventually.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

The families living there might try to build a wall.

[@djterry1218]

Thank you for the lesson.👍🏼

[@TravelsWithPhil]

My pleasure.

[@jameswalker3973]

Reelfoot is a good place to observe eagles in the wild.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Sounds good

[@gretafields4706]

Wow, you mention a backward flow!! I am interested in the ruver because I dreamed of walking alongside the flooded river to a loading platform. I dreamt 4 dreams of being on the Trsil of Tears at the river with about 20 others and my father. In the last dream I was on a piece of a wooden platform floating into rapids... Downhill. I knew I would die in seconds, but it was a relief it was over.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

A very unusual dream

[@gretafields4706]

Yes, very strange, but I met other people who dream stuff. It is more like an old memory. Martha Erickson went to the river and saw a Cherokee woman, washing her hands in a creek nearby Mantle Rock (the shelter rock). I saw a ghost like that twice, animal, so I believed her. Apparently Cherokee are haunted.😳

[@paulm5935]

Aren't these sand volcanoes just an extreme example of earth liquifaction, being extreme, because of the large magnitude of the earthquake that caused them? They also remind me of what I've seen documented in the vicinity of the Marianna Trench. I believe they're called mud volcanoes? Paul M. Atlanta, GA

[@TravelsWithPhil]

It could be liquifaction, but I have not seen any descriptions talking about how fluid the sand is in one of these.

[@moosefactory133]

I still cannot figure out why it is completely separated from the rest of Kentucky. Was it at one time connect but the Earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River in such a way to dip south of the southern border of Kentucky or was it just a simple survey mistake?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

While I do not know the specific reason, I suspect they set up the state line to follow a certain latitude, and on the east side of the river. This was not knowing that the Mississippi River crossed that line in a big bend.

[@moosefactory133]

@@TravelsWithPhil I finally found the answer in a video entitled "Weird Borders: State Borders of the United States of America." The course of the Mississippi dips south of the 36.5 degree parallel however this was either not known or was not taken into account. The video explains it better than I can.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

@@moosefactory133 That confirms what I said above. Good guess on my part.

[@takeflightsbih636]

I really appreciate this video

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you

[@Idrinklight44]

Great video!!!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks.

[@scenicdriveways6708]

Great video, thanks for sharing it!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

You bet!

[@kbrewski1]

They should just make that Kentucky bulb part of Missouri. Would make more sense until the next Big One. Pretty crazy that all the barge traffic and riverboats have to navigate that ring around the rosy every time.

[@jamesmurray8558]

Wow, that is interesting. The odd things of the U.S. will amaze people.I was at Mt.St.Helens.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Both are interesting, but Mt. St. Helens is much more dramatic and scenic. I've been there a couple of times.

[@MoneypitHomestead]

Thank you so very much for sharing this video and all of this wonderful information about my Kentucky!! You really did a great job explaining everything, and I was hooked from the very start! Hopefully, I will be able to make videos like this someday. May God bless your days the way He always blesses ours! Donald @ #moneypithomestead

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you for the kind words. I enjoy doing these videos.

[@MoneypitHomestead]

@@TravelsWithPhil It really does show!

[@larrycates7655]

That is in Fulton county Kentucky I was working on the county jail and asked one of the deputies how they managed patrol issues. He said Tennesse works with them without issue .

[@TravelsWithPhil]

That's a good thing. I was in law enforcement for 20 years. I know jurisdictional things can be problematic.

[@ricrid]

I spent a couple days in new madrid county jail its not there no more they were treating inmates bad so they shut it down

[@country3608]

Great educational video!👍🇺🇸

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@ChrisTopher-zo1vg]

I live in western Kentucky, nice video!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you.

[@jamestorline3965]

Ky here, and cool didn't know tks

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@elithepitbulldog2209]

So I looked on google earth and it appears there are only 2 other families living in that area of Kentucky, other than the house where the guy is mowing the lawn and with the cute black pit bull dog! Of course I had to say that

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Sounds about right. Most census data say around 12 to 15 people.

[@patrickdurham8393]

Reelfoot lake is possibly the best crappie and bream lake ever.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

How do they taste?

[@patricklondon6006]

And Bigfoot

[@patrickdurham8393]

​@@TravelsWithPhilBest ever. Water is surprisingly clean.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Ever heard of Momo the Monster? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_the_Monster @@patricklondon6006

[@tosh369]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

My pleasure.

[@bradleyrussell1973]

These are oxbows. Common for river livin’ folk. Yip the river RAN backwards because the western plate raised up almost 4’, causing the lake.

[@chrisjones933]

The river did run backwards. It wasn't from sloshing rather from the formation of Reelfoot lake and the river feeding it.

[@ricrid]

Good crappie in reelfoot

[@unappreciatedtreehouse821]

Great video. I live near Cape Girardeau.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thank you

[@obsidianjane4413]

I guess that is better than calling them "sand pimples".

[@TravelsWithPhil]

LOL

[@timhallas4275]

Actually, the 1812 earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi river at the New Madrid bend. For a period of 10years, that bend was dry.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Interesting

[@earlelfrink]

The one place where Missouri is due east of Kentucky. And north of Kentucky, also.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Gotta love geography

[@earlelfrink]

Have you considered the extreme oddity of Crowley's Ridge just west of this area. A geological peculiarity to say the least. @@TravelsWithPhil

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Very interesting. Thanks for letting me know about it.@@earlelfrink

[@whitsonhenry4955]

I farmed there on island no10 hear there for 30 years know about the bend. I'm from New Madrid.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

When did Island 10 go away?

[@gretafields4706]

I live in east ky. There's a part Cherokee man here who said there used to be an old indian here who said he swam in the river when it ran backwards. That must have been the earthquake. My ancestors came here at circa 1801, before the quake.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

That would have been quite the adventure. FYI, I am Cherokee, too.

[@MrPAULONEAL]

There's less than a mile at the closest part.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Yup, about 4,600 feet across.

[@dennisdrury-rg8ms]

The ground shook in the'80's. I was in my basement in Jamestown, Ohio (near Dayton, Ohio. I felt it at the time. I had my toolbox on sawhorses near the basement steps . I could see the movement between the steps and the toolbox. I yelled at my boys upstairs because I thought they were shaking the house. Weird how your mind works! I was shocked later to find out what it really was.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Wow !

[@bullhead900]

I remember that!

[@eyespygouldians3536]

Very nice!

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks!

[@mikeries8549]

You better bring up Big Lake in Arkansas. Created by the new Madrid earthquake just like reelfoot.

[@randymorgan8375]

Not true !! The river really did flow backwards because of the big water falls that was visible for a few days after the earthquake, the water finally level out on the falling days .. falls disappear and water being running normal...

[@TravelsWithPhil]

The point I, and hydrologists, make is that yes it did run the opposite way for a bit. But, the reason was not a change in direction, but a short term event which corrected itself within a short period of time. Granted, I could have worded that better.

[@jimbodice2672]

Why in tarnation's did they draw up the maps like this? Why not just make that part of the state Tennessee? I mean back then, obviously harder to change up nowadays, depending on who lives their.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

I haven't seen the original documents, but I would guess that a group decided Kentucky should go all the way to the east side of the Mississippi River above 36.5 degrees latitude (+/-). And, Tennessee should be below 36.5 degrees (=/-), or something like that. I suspect they didn't realize the bend in the river would isolate that piece of land.

[@ao7892]

A teacher in Indiana predicted that a massively destructive earthquake can possibly remove the whole state of Kentucky

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Another 8+ earthquake on the New Madrid fault would certainly cause a massive amount of damage. Most seismologists think Memphis would be especially hard hit.

[@Paul71H]

Another New Madrid quake like the 1811-1812 quakes would likely devastate western Kentucky, but I doubt it would have a major impact on central and eastern Kentucky.

[@bradleyrussell1973]

Good vid!!!

[@kevinmason9783]

New madrid has a museum, we have been wanting to visit since moving to the area. We live in point pleasant just south of new madrid.

[@kosjeyr]

Never heard of "sand volcanoes" before.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Sand Blows, Sand Boils, Sand Volcanoes . . .

[@calvinbass1839]

How does the State of Kentucky police that area?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Good question. I don't know. I would guess the Sheriff's Department for the county it is in would handle it.

[@carlenasp]

Very interesting. Never knew kentucky was a two piece state. Strange it is a spot sandwiched w missouri / tennessee

[@TravelsWithPhil]

That's why it appealed to me

[@hphillips7425]

Interesting

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Thanks

[@skeetlegeetles9449]

There is a similar spot like this in the Omaha area. Carter Lake IA

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Another interesting place. Although, technically, it is still connected to the rest of Iowa. One of the hazards of using meandering rivers as boundaries. There are others like this: Elwood, Kansas at the Rosecrans Memorial Airport - Desoto National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska - Soldier Bend Wildlife Area, Iowa. The State line between Soldier Bend and Decatur Nebraska moves back and forth across the river several times here.

[@gregwilliams386]

Isn't it surrounded by Missouri?

[@TravelsWithPhil]

It is connected to Tennessee by land, and surrounded by Missouri in the water.

[@johnmcook1]

THEM BENDS ARE CALLED OXBOWS

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Yes, when bends are completely cut off from the river because of a change in the river's course, they are called oxbow lakes. There are lots of them along the Mississippi.

[@danhall4990]

The sand boils are caused by water in the Mississippi that are higher than the land level in the bend and that higher water level behind the levee on the Missouri side of the river creates pressure and pushes the water underground and when it finds a weak spot it will rise and push the sand above the surface to create the sand boils. The farmland on the west side of the bend, around East Praire, MO. are covered in the sand boils. Earth tremors have nothing to do with the creation of them. The only time they occur is in high water level events on the Big Muddy

[@TravelsWithPhil]

Not all sand blows/boils/volcanoes are caused by earthquakes, and some of those in this area may be due to other forms of liquifaction. But numerous sources, including the United States Geological Survey, say that sand blows near New Madred were created by the 1812 earthquake, and other quakes. ----- New Madrid website --- "The world's largest sand boil was created by the New Madrid earthquake. It is 1.4 miles long and 136 acres in extent, located in the Bootheel of Missouri, about eight miles west of Hayti, Missouri. Locals call it "The Beach." Other, much smaller, sand boils are found throughout the area." --- www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquake#:~:text=Earthquake%20Phenomena&text=The%20world's%20largest%20sand%20boil,are%20found%20throughout%20the%20area.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

"In the Midwest's New Madrid zone - a 150-mile-long fault system stretching southward from Cairo, Ill. - a series of powerful quakes occurred in 1811 and 1812. They were part of a string of magnitude 7 to 8 quakes that have occurred there every 500 years or so over the past 4,500 years. Evidence from so-called sand blows, formed when violent shaking causes underground sand and water to erupt, shows that big quakes occurred in the region in roughly 1450 A.D., 900 A.D. and 2350 B.C." ------------ library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2010040900

[@TravelsWithPhil]

USGS - "The Geological Record There are historical accounts of major earthquakes in the New Madrid region during 1811-12. The geologic record of pre-1811 earthquakes also reveals that the New Madrid seismic zone has repeatedly produced sequences of major earthquakes, including several of magnitude 7 to 8, over the past 4,500 years. These prehistoric earthquakes caused severe and widespread ground failures in the New Madrid region, much like those caused by the 1811-12 earthquake sequence. The key evidence for large earthquakes that occurred in the past are sand blows that formed when underground sand and water erupted to the surface as a result of violent shaking. Numerous large sand blows over a wide area were created by strong ground shaking during the 1811-12 earthquakes. Similarly large, widespread, and abundant prehistoric sand blows were produced over the same area during ground shaking from previous clusters of large earthquakes around A.D. 1450, A.D. 900, and 2350 B.C. The sizes and areal distribution of the prehistoric sand blows indicate that the older earthquakes were similar in location and magnitude to the 1811-12 shocks. ------- pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3071/pdf/FS09-3071.pdf

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"A “Sand Boil” is a cone-shaped deposit of sand that is formed during an earthquake. A Sand Boil occurs when subsurface sand layers liquefy and are then blown to the surface through cracks." - - - - www.geoforward.com/sand-boil/#:~:text=A%20%E2%80%9CSand%20Boil%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,to%20the%20surface%20through%20cracks.

[@alanstrong3295]

Rivers have gone through so many changes. Mississippi River is imcluded.

[@TravelsWithPhil]

There are lots of places where the river no longer reflects the state lines

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

I wouldn't want to have to live there.