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The Missouri River flows from the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin and is the longest river in United States. Taken together, the Jefferson, the Missouri, and the Mississippi form the longest river system in North America. If measured from the source of the Jefferson at Brower's Spring, to the Gulf of Mexico, the length of the Mississippm) are part of the Mississippi, and the intervening 2,341 miles (3,767 km) are called the Missouri.i-Missouri-Jefferson combination is approximately 3,900 miles (6,300 km), making the combination the 4th longest river in the world. The uppermost 207 miles (333 km) of this combined river are called the Jefferson, the lowest 1,352 miles (2,176 k

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