yep, you're right. I just researched it and at least one site shows the St. Johns, the Monongahela, and the Willamette primarily. Then it went on with several others: NEW RIVER, YOUGHIOGHENY, CHEAT, SHENANDOAH, YELLOWSTONE, TENNESSEE, and then another list: Big Horn (WY and MT), near which General Custer met his doom
Big Sandy (KY and WV)
Carson (NV)
Cuyahoga (OH) -- starts flowing SW but makes a U-turn to flow north into Lake Erie at Cleveland; its source is farther north than its mouth!
Deschutes (OR) -- just west of and straighter than the Willamette
Gallatin (WY)
Genessee (PA and NY) -- Its headwaters in northcentral Pennsylvania are just a few miles from those of the Allegheny, northeast of Coudersport, Pa. Pine Creek, a major tributary of the Susquehanna River, also starts nearby. (One of my sisters lives in that area, which is how I knew about this.) The Genessee flows north to Lake Ontario; the Allegheny soon detours north briefly into New York State, then flows primarily south and southwest to Pittsburgh, where it merges with the Monongahela to form the Ohio; but Pine Creek flows south and southeast toward Chesapeake Bay.
John Day (OR)
Jordan (UT) -- flows N from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake (its namesake in the Holy Land, however, flows south)
Licking (KY)
Madison (WY)
Medicine Bow (WY)
Onionagon (WI)
Oswego (NY)
Owyhee (ID and OR) -- winds around a lot but the general direction is more N than anything else; named for 3 Hawaiians who wanted to see more of the world only to be killed by Indians while part of an expedition to explore the Snake River in 1819.
Powder (WY and MT) -- begins flowing E but then goes N or NNE to the Yellowstone.
Sandusky (OH)
Smoky Hill (KS)
Snake (ID, OR and WA)
Vermilion (OH)
Walker (NV)
White River of South Dakota
Withlacoochee River (FL)
Of course, how many of these are primarily north flowing, I dunno. A tired Sunday night just wasn't the time to go look. All water under the bridge anyway :-} (or over the dam?)
So (I should have known better anyway) don't take somebody's word for something general without researching it. Another point was that if global warming ever starts melting stuff in Antarctica, they would ALL be north-flowing rivers. :lol: