Cow Creek (Kansas)

Cow Creek
Big Cow Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
RegionGreat Plains
CityHutchinson, KS
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationNear Beaver, KS, Great Plains, Kansas, United States
 • coordinates38°38′37″N 098°39′10″W / 38.64361°N 98.65278°W / 38.64361; -98.65278[3]
 • elevation1,483 ft (452 m)
MouthArkansas River
 • location
Hutchinson, Kansas, United States
 • coordinates
37°58′47″N 097°50′24″W / 37.97972°N 97.84000°W / 37.97972; -97.84000[3]
 • elevation
452 ft (138 m)[3]
Length112 mi (180 km), East[1]
Basin size859.5 sq mi (2,226 km2)[2]
Discharge 
 • locationHutchinson[2]
 • average1,230 cu ft/s (35 m3/s)[2]
Basin features
River systemArkansas River watershed
Map of Rice County from KDOT (map legend)

Cow Creek is a 112-mile-long (180 km)[1] 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.

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


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