Little Arkansas River
| Little Arkansas River Ne Shuta Shinka River[1] | |
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| File:Little Arkansas River.jpg The Little Arkansas River near Sedgwick, Kansas | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Ellsworth County, Kansas |
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| • elevation | 1,759 ft (536 m) |
| Mouth | Arkansas River |
• location | Wichita, Kansas |
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• elevation | 1,283 ft (391 m) |
| Length | 123 mi (198 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | USGS 07144200 at Valley Center, KS[2] |
| • average | 315 cu ft/s (8.9 m3/s) |
| • minimum | 1.1 cu ft/s (0.031 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 28,600 cu ft/s (810 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Watersheds | Little Arkansas-Arkansas- Mississippi |
The Little Arkansas River (/ɑːrˈkænzəs/ ar-KAN-zəs) is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Arkansas River, its entire 123-mile (198 km) length lies within the American state of Kansas.[3]
Geography
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The river originates in central Kansas in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains.[3][4] Its source lies in extreme south-central Ellsworth County immediately north of Geneseo, Kansas.[4][5] From there, the river flows generally south-southeast along the border between the Arkansas River Lowlands to the southwest and the McPherson Lowlands to the northeast.[4] It joins the Arkansas River immediately northwest of downtown Wichita, Kansas.[4][6]
Points of interest
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A statue, The Keeper of the Plains by local artist Blackbear Bosin, marks the confluence of these two rivers.
See also
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- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 29, 2011
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External links
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