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The Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwesternmost part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwesternmost portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its two names both come from the Kanza people who once inhabited the area; Kansas was one of the anglicizations of the French transcription ...
Kansas has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers), which is the 15th-biggest state by area. Kansas is also 34th most-populous of the 50 states because 2,913,314 people live there. People who live in Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest place at 4,039 feet (1,231 meters).
The Elk River is formed by a collection of intermittent streams in southwestern Greenwood County, [1] and flows for about 95 miles (153 km) [2] generally east-southeast through Butler, Elk, and Montgomery counties, past the towns of Elk Falls, Longton and Elk City. It joins the Verdigris River at the northern edge of the city of Independence .
Medicine Lodge- Salt Fork Arkansas - Arkansas -. Mississippi. The Medicine Lodge River is a 130-mile-long (210 km) [3] tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Salt Fork and Arkansas rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River .
For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, Rice County was founded. Little River was founded in 1880. [4]
Saline- Smoky Hill - Kansas - Missouri - Mississippi. The Saline River is a 397-mile-long (639 km) [3] tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire river is in the U.S. state of Kansas in the northwest part of the state. The river got its name from the French translation of its Native name Ne Miskua.
The Pawnee River or Pawnee Fork is a river in western Kansas in the United States, about 198 miles (319 km) long. [5] It is a tributary of the Arkansas River, which in turn is a branch of the Mississippi River . It rises in northwestern Gray County at an elevation of 2,835 feet (864 m), as the outflow of several agricultural drainage channels.
