Republican River
Appearance
Republican River Forche des Republiques, [1] Coster Blanches, Ki-ra-ru-tah, Mahohevaohe[2] | |
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![]() The Republican River near Riverton, Nebraska | |
![]() Map of the Kansas River drainage basin showing the Republican River | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
States | Nebraska, Kansas |
Physical characteristics | |
Source confluence | |
- location | Haigler, Nebraska |
- coordinates | 40°01′12″N 101°56′16″W / 40.02000°N 101.93778°W[2] |
- elevation | 3,253 ft (992 m) |
Mouth | Kansas River |
- location | Junction City, Kansas |
- coordinates | 39°03′36″N 98°48′05″W / 39.06000°N 98.80139°W[2] |
- elevation | 1,043 ft (318 m) |
Length | 453 mi (729 km) |
Basin size | 24,900 sq mi (64,000 km2) |
Discharge | |
- location | Junction City about 3 mi (4.8 km) above the mouth[3] |
- average | 848 cu ft/s (24.0 m3/s) |
- minimum | 3.2 cu ft/s (0.091 m3/s) |
- maximum | 33,300 cu ft/s (940 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
- left | North Fork Republican River, Frenchman Creek, Red Willow Creek, Medicine Creek |
- right | Arikaree River, South Fork Republican River, Sappa Creek, Prairie Dog Creek, White Rock Creek |
Watersheds | Republican-Kansas-Missouri-Mississippi |
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains area of North America. It starts in the High Plains of eastern Colorado, and it goes east 453 miles (729 km)[4] through the U.S. states of Nebraska and Kansas.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ François-Marie Perrin du Lac (1802), Carte du Missouri : levee ou rectifiée dans toute son etendue, University of Oklahoma Press, retrieved 2017-01-01
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Republican River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ↑ "USGS Gage #06857100 on the Republican River at Junction City, KS" (PDF). National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 1964–2014. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 25, 2011
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Republican River.
- Republican River Compact Compliance Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, State of Colorado
- The Republican River, A 2018 survey of the political and social ecology of the Republican River by Denis Boyles