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Cattle crossing the Smoky Hill River at Ellsworth
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Map of rivers in Kansas with the Smoky Hill in the north central.
The Smoky Hill River is a 560-mile river in the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas. It starts in the high plains of eastern Colorado and flows east. The two main tributaries, called the North and South forks, join near Russell Springs, Kansas. From there, the river continues generally eastward through central Kansas. The Smoky Hill River joins the Republican River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River.

Besides Junction City, other Kansas towns along the river are Salina and Abilene.

Two dams, the Kanopolis and the Cedar Bluff, are used for irrigation and flood control.

Native names for the river include Chetolah and the Okesee-sebo. Early maps of European explorers called the river (sometimes in combination with the Kansas) the River of the Padoucas, after a name given to the Comanche.

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river is a natural waterway that transits water through a landscape from higher to lower elevations. It is an integral component of the water cycle. The water within a river is generally collected from precipitation through surface runoff, groundwater recharge (as seen at baseflow
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Nickname(s): The Centennial State
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State of Colorado

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tributary (or confluent/affluent) is a stream or river which flows into a mainstem (or parent) river, and which does not flow directly into a sea. In orography, tributaries are ordered from those nearest to the source of the river to those nearest to the mouth of the
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Russell Springs, Kansas

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The Republican River rises on the high plains of eastern Colorado in the United States. The two main tributaries, called the North and South forks, join at Benkelman, Nebraska.
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Junction City, Kansas

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Kansas River (known interchangeably as the Kaw) 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.
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Salina, Kansas

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Abilene, Kansas

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Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose range (the Comancheria) consisted of present-day Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of Northern and Southern Texas. There may once have been as many as 20,000 Comanches.
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List of rivers in Colorado (U.S. state), grouped by location and sorted by name.

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List of rivers in Kansas (U.S. state).
  • Arikaree River
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  • Black Vermillion River
  • Blue River (Kansas City area)
  • Caney River
  • Chikaskia River
  • Cimarron River
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