Little Arkansas River
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The Little Arkansas River near Sedgwick, Kansas
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Kansas |
| Source | |
| - location | Ellsworth County, Kansas |
| - elevation | 1,759 ft (536 m) |
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| Mouth | Arkansas River |
| - location | Wichita, Kansas |
| - elevation | 1,283 ft (391 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [1] |
| Length | 123 mi (198 km) |
| Discharge | for USGS 07144200 at Valley Center, KS[2] |
| - average | 315 cu ft/s (9 m3/s) |
| - max | 28,600 cu ft/s (810 m3/s) |
| - min | 1.1 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| 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
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
A statue, The Keeper of the Plains by local artist Blackbear Bosin, marks the confluence of these two rivers.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 29, 2011
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