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The mouth of the Kansas River in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City (at a longitude of 94 degrees 36 minutes West) was the basis for Missouri's western boundary from Iowa to Arkansas when it became a state in 1821 (Kansas entered the Union in 1861.) South of the Missouri River, that longitude still remains the boundary between Kansas and ...
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The 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
Shortly before intersecting with the Kansas River, the Big Blue discharges its waters into a reservoir called Tuttle Creek Lake, which lies slightly northeast of Manhattan. The reservoir is a man-made flood-control measure, held back by a dam composed of the limestone , silt , and gypsum dredged out of the floodplain by bulldozers left to rust ...
That means less water will be released to the Kansas River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday will enact its drought protocol. That means less water will be released to the Kansas River.
The Solomon River joins the Smoky Hill River in western Dickinson County. [8] The Smoky Hill River joins the Republican River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River. [1] The Smoky Hill River directly drains an area of 8,810 square miles (22,800 km 2). The combined Smoky Hill-Saline Basin drains 12,229 square miles (31,670 km 2). [9]
In hydrology, stage is the water level in a river or stream with respect to a chosen reference height. [1] [2] It is commonly measured in units of feet.Stage is important because direct measurements of river discharge are very difficult while water surface elevation measurements are comparatively easy.
The Flood Control Act of 1938 authorized the construction of Kanopolis Dam and Lake, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work in June 1940. [6] The outbreak of World War II, however, led to a suspension of the effort in 1942, delaying the project for 3 1/2 years. [7]