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s in KansasKansas is a state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was...
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By Drainage BasinA drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean...
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Arkansas River Basin
- Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas....
- Neosho River
The Neosho River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Its tributaries also drain portions of Missouri and Arkansas. The river is about 460 mi long...
- Spring River
Note: for the Spring River located in south-central Missouri and north-central Arkansas, see Spring River .The Spring River, located in southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma, begins in northern Barry County, Missouri south of Aurora...
- Cottonwood River
- Verdigris River
The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about 280 miles long...
- Caney River
The Caney River is a river in southern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The river is a tributary of the Verdigris River, and is usually a flatwater stream....
- Elk River
The Elk River is a tributary of the Verdigris River in southeastern Kansas in the United States. Via the Verdigris and Arkansas Rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.-Description and course:...
- Fall River
- Cimarron River
The Cimarron River extends 698 miles across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. The headwaters flow from Johnson Mesa west of Folsom in northeastern New Mexico...
- North Fork Cimarron River
- Salt Fork Arkansas River
The Salt Fork of the Arkansas River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 192 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Chikaskia River
The Chikaskia River is a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, 145 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Medicine Lodge River
The Medicine Lodge River is a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, 101 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Grouse Creek
- Walnut River
The Walnut River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 121 mi long, in the Flint Hills region of Kansas in the United States. Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed....
- Little Walnut River
- Whitewater River
The Whitewater River is a short tributary of the Walnut River in southern Kansas in the United States. Via the Walnut and Arkansas Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
- Ninnescah River
- North Fork Ninnescah River
- South Fork Ninnescah River
- Little Arkansas River
The Little Arkansas River , is a 90 mi long river located in South Central Kansas. It rises in Northern Rice County just north of Lyons, Kansas and flows southeast past Buhler, Kansas and Halstead, Kansas to meet with the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas.The Keeper of the Plains statue by...
- Cow Creek
Cow Creek is a large stream in Rice County, Kansas. From Lyons, Kansas, it is four miles west and one mile south. The Santa Fe Trail went over Cow Creek. Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post here at this loccation during the 1850s.-External articles and references:* ""* * "". View From USGS...
- Rattlesnake Creek
- Walnut Creek
- Pawnee River
Missouri River Basin
- Missouri River
The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and is the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri likely originates at Brower's Spring at the upper reaches of the Jefferson, before joining the confluence of the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin rivers in Montana....
- Osage River (MO)
- Little Osage River
The Little Osage River is a tributary of the Osage River in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.-Course:...
- Marmaton River
The Marmaton River is a tributary of the Little Osage River, 73 mi long, in southeastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States...
- Marais des Cygnes River
The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about 140 mi long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
- Blue River
The Blue River is a stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri...
- Kansas River
The Kansas River is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its name come from the Kanza people who once inhabited the area...
- Stranger Creek
- Wakarusa River
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 50 mi long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence.-Description:...
- Delaware River
The Delaware River is a river located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas. The Delaware River basin drains from the outflow of the Perry Lake reservoir...
- Big Blue River
The Big Blue River is the largest tributary of the Kansas River. The river flows for approximately 250 miles from central Nebraska into Kansas, where it intersects with the Kansas River east of Manhattan, Kansas...
- Black Vermillion River
- Little Blue River
- Republican River
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, flowing through the U.S. states of Nebraska and Kansas.-Geography:...
- Buffalo Creek
- White Rock Creek
- Prairie Dog Creek
- Sappa Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Arikaree River
The Arikaree River is a tributary of the North Fork of the Republican River that flows mostly east out of the State of Colorado in the United States...
- Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas.-Names:The Smoky Hill gets its name from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows...
- Solomon River
The Solomon River, often referred to as the "Solomon Fork", is a 70-mile river in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas...
- North Fork Solomon River
- South Fork Solomon River
- Saline River
The Saline River is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas. The river takes its name from the French translation of its Native name Ne Miskua, referring to its salty content.-Geography:The...
- Big Creek
- Hackberry Creek
- Ladder Creek
- Wolf River
The Wolf River is a tributary of the Missouri River in northeastern Kansas in the United States, draining an area of 247.8 square miles in the Dissected Till Plains region....
- Big Nemaha River
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- Arikaree River
The Arikaree River is a tributary of the North Fork of the Republican River that flows mostly east out of the State of Colorado in the United States...
- Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas....
- Beaver Creek
- Big Blue River
The Big Blue River is the largest tributary of the Kansas River. The river flows for approximately 250 miles from central Nebraska into Kansas, where it intersects with the Kansas River east of Manhattan, Kansas...
- Big Creek
- Big Nemaha River
- Black Vermillion River
- Blue River
The Blue River is a stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri...
- Buckner Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Caney River
The Caney River is a river in southern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The river is a tributary of the Verdigris River, and is usually a flatwater stream....
- Chikaskia River
The Chikaskia River is a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, 145 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Cimarron River
The Cimarron River extends 698 miles across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. The headwaters flow from Johnson Mesa west of Folsom in northeastern New Mexico...
- Cottonwood River
- Cow Creek
Cow Creek is a large stream in Rice County, Kansas. From Lyons, Kansas, it is four miles west and one mile south. The Santa Fe Trail went over Cow Creek. Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post here at this loccation during the 1850s.-External articles and references:* ""* * "". View From USGS...
- Delaware River
The Delaware River is a river located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas. The Delaware River basin drains from the outflow of the Perry Lake reservoir...
- Elk River
The Elk River is a tributary of the Verdigris River in southeastern Kansas in the United States. Via the Verdigris and Arkansas Rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.-Description and course:...
- Fall River
- Grouse Creek
- Hackberry Creek
- Kansas River
The Kansas River is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its name come from the Kanza people who once inhabited the area...
- Ladder Creek
- Little Arkansas River
The Little Arkansas River , is a 90 mi long river located in South Central Kansas. It rises in Northern Rice County just north of Lyons, Kansas and flows southeast past Buhler, Kansas and Halstead, Kansas to meet with the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas.The Keeper of the Plains statue by...
- Little Beaver Creek
- Little Blue River
- Little Osage River
The Little Osage River is a tributary of the Osage River in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.-Course:...
- Little Walnut River
- Marais des Cygnes River
The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about 140 mi long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
- Marmaton River
The Marmaton River is a tributary of the Little Osage River, 73 mi long, in southeastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States...
- Medicine Lodge River
The Medicine Lodge River is a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, 101 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Missouri River
The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and is the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri likely originates at Brower's Spring at the upper reaches of the Jefferson, before joining the confluence of the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin rivers in Montana....
- Neosho River
The Neosho River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Its tributaries also drain portions of Missouri and Arkansas. The river is about 460 mi long...
- Ninnescah River
- Pawnee River
- Prairie Dog Creek
- Rattlesnake Creek
- Republican River
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, flowing through the U.S. states of Nebraska and Kansas.-Geography:...
- Saline River
The Saline River is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas. The river takes its name from the French translation of its Native name Ne Miskua, referring to its salty content.-Geography:The...
- Salt Fork Arkansas River
The Salt Fork of the Arkansas River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 192 mi long, in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States...
- Sappa Creek
- Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas.-Names:The Smoky Hill gets its name from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows...
- Solomon River
The Solomon River, often referred to as the "Solomon Fork", is a 70-mile river in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas...
- Spring River
Note: for the Spring River located in south-central Missouri and north-central Arkansas, see Spring River .The Spring River, located in southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma, begins in northern Barry County, Missouri south of Aurora...
- Stranger Creek
- Verdigris River
The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about 280 miles long...
- Wakarusa River
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 50 mi long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence.-Description:...
- Walnut Creek
- Walnut River
The Walnut River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 121 mi long, in the Flint Hills region of Kansas in the United States. Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed....
- White Rock Creek
- Whitewater River
The Whitewater River is a short tributary of the Walnut River in southern Kansas in the United States. Via the Walnut and Arkansas Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
- Wolf River
The Wolf River is a tributary of the Missouri River in northeastern Kansas in the United States, draining an area of 247.8 square miles in the Dissected Till Plains region....
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