Cow_Creek_(Kansas)

Cow Creek (Kansas)

Cow Creek (Kansas)

River in Kansas, United States

Cow Creek is a 112-mile-long (180 km)[2] stream that flows through Rice and Reno Counties, Kansas. Cow Creek is a tributary of the Arkansas River; its confluence with the Arkansas is about ten miles southeast of Hutchinson, Kansas.

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Map of Rice County from KDOT (map legend)

In the 1850s, Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post (known as "Buffalo Bill's Well") where the Santa Fe Trail crossed Cow Creek.[4] From Lyons, Kansas, the well is located four miles west and one mile south.

See also

  1. [1]
    "Cow Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 1978-10-13. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  2. [2]
    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
  3. [3]
    "USGS Current Conditions for USGS 07143310 COW C NR HUTCHINSON, KS".
  4. [4]
    "Cow Creek Station". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-04-13.



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