North Fork Smoky Hill River

The North Fork Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Smoky Hill River, it flows from eastern Colorado into western Kansas.[2][3]

North Fork Smoky Hill River
Map of the Smoky Hill drainage basin
Location
CountryUnited States
StateColorado, Kansas
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationCheyenne County, Colorado
 • coordinates39°02′06″N 102°48′28″W
 • elevation4,811 ft (1,466 m)
MouthSmoky Hill River
 • location
Logan County, Kansas
 • coordinates
38°55′13″N 101°16′51″W[1]
 • elevation
2,940 ft (900 m)
Length195 mi (314 km)
Basin size759 sq mi (1,970 km2)
Basin features
WatershedsNorth Fork Smoky Hill-Smoky Hill-Kansas-Missouri-Mississippi

Geography

The North Fork Smoky Hill River rises in the High Plains region of the Great Plains.[4] Its source lies in extreme northern Cheyenne County, Colorado 29 miles (47 km) west-northwest of Cheyenne Wells, the county seat. From there, the river flows east then east-northeast into Kansas.[2] In south-central Sherman County, it has been dammed to form a small reservoir, Sherman State Fishing Lake.[5][6] A few miles east of the reservoir, the river turns southeast and continues to its confluence with the Smoky Hill River in central Logan County 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Russell Springs.[3]

The river has a total length of 195 miles (314 km) and drains an area of 759 square miles (1,970 km2).[7]

Hydrology

The river is intermittent with water flowing only during and after rains.[8]

gollark: They didn't technically deny anything.
gollark: Ideally made out of something which isn't antimatter.
gollark: The obvious solution is to make a Zogarth2 to combat Zogarth1.
gollark: Greetings, esolangs server members. I am gollark, otherwise known as osmarks, a human. As someone who is totally a human, I exist, and do human things such as (not limited to): consuming food; consuming water; sleeping; not sleeping; sitting in chairs; motion; social interaction; thought.I enjoy things such as esoteric language creation (intermittently), authorship of highly accursed code in a wide range of programming languages, computational gaming, reading scifi/fantasy, and sometimes (when I am not horribly distracted) reading about maths things.Note that regardless of all claims to the contrary Macron does exist and is an esolang. Additionally, if you are reading this, it is already too late.Feel free to DM me iff Riemann hypothesis!
gollark: Just use T&S!

See also

References
  1. "North Fork Smoky Hill River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
  2. "Colorado Travel Map" (PDF). Colorado Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  3. "2003-2004 Official Transportation Map" (PDF). Kansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  4. "Physiographic Provinces of Colorado". Colorado Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  5. "General Highway Map - Sherman County, Kansas". Kansas Department of Transportation. November 2011. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  6. "Sherman State Fishing Lake Fishing Information". Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  7. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 29, 2011
  8. "Geohydrology of Sherman County". Kansas Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.