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Kansas River
Summary
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 (Kaw) people who once inhabited the area; Kansas was one of the anglicizations of the French transcription Cansez (kɑ̃ze) of the original kką:ze. The city of Kansas City, Missouri, was named for the river, as was later the state of Kansas.
The river valley averages in width, with the widest points being between Wamego and Rossville, where it is up to wide, then narrowing to or less in places below Eudora and De Soto. Much of the river's watershed is dammed for flood control, but the Kansas River is generally free-flowing and has only minor obstructions, including diversion weirs and one low-impact hydroelectric dam.
Beginning at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, just east of aptly named Junction City (), the Kansas River flows some generally eastward to join the Missouri River at Kaw Point () in Kansas City. Dropping on its journey seaward, the water in the Kansas River falls less than . The Kansas River valley is only long; the surplus length of the river is due to meandering across the floodplain. The river's course roughly follows the maximum extent of a Pre-Illinoian glaciation, and the river likely began as a path of glacial meltwater drainage.
The Kansas drains of land in Kansas (almost all of the northern half), along with in Nebraska and in Colorado, making a total of just over . When including the Republican River and its headwater tributaries, the Kansas River system has a length of , making it the 21st longest river system in the United States. Its highest headwaters are at about and extend nearly to Limon, Colorado. Much of the drainage of the river lies within the Great Plains, but the river itself exists entirely within the Mid Continent Region.
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