Cow Creek Big Cow Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas |
Region | Great Plains |
City | Hutchinson, KS |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Near Beaver, KS, Great Plains, Kansas, United States |
• coordinates | 38°38′37″N 098°39′10″W / 38.64361°N 98.65278°W [1] |
• elevation | 1,483 ft (452 m) |
Mouth | Arkansas River |
• location | Hutchinson, Kansas, United States |
• coordinates | 37°58′47″N 097°50′24″W / 37.97972°N 97.84000°W [1] |
• elevation | 452 ft (138 m) [1] |
Length | 112 mi (180 km), East [2] |
Basin size | 859.5 sq mi (2,226 km2) [3] |
Discharge | |
• location | Hutchinson [3] |
• average | 1,230 cu ft/s (35 m3/s) [3] |
Basin features | |
River system | Arkansas River watershed |
Cow Creek is a 112-mile-long (180 km) [2] 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.