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The wetland's primary outflow is an outlet canal to Little Cheyenne Creek to the southeast. [11] Little Cheyenne Creek empties into Cow Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River. [3] [11] Cheyenne Bottoms lies entirely within Barton County. [11] The entire wetland occupies a natural land sink spanning 41,000 acres or 64 square miles (170 km 2). [4]
This list of Ramsar sites in the United States are those wetlands that are considered to be of international importance, protected under the Ramsar Convention treaty. The United States as of 2020, has 41 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 1,884,551 hectares (7,276.29 sq mi; 18,845.51 km 2).
Hampton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,052 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] Hampton is often considered a subdivision of the nearby community of Towson and is located just north of Baltimore , about twenty minutes from downtown.
Retired physician Dan Witt is an opponent of renewable energy assets being installed anywhere near Cheyenne Bottoms, a wetland near Great Bend. “That foreign company”
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
Cheyenne Bottoms, a large inland wetland, is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) to the northeast. [ 19 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 10.71 square miles (27.74 km 2 ), of which 10.60 square miles (27.45 km 2 ) is land and 0.11 square miles (0.28 km 2 ) is water.
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Kansas — the Cheyenne Bottoms, the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge near the town of Stafford, the Red Hills, and the Smoky Hills areas; These protected areas consist of patches of intact native grassland amid cultivated rangeland, and most of the remaining natural habitats of the Great Plains are unprotected.