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    The Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, is a meandering river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is potentially the southwestern most part...
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    east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka...
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    River (MO) Little Osage River Marmaton River Marais des Cygnes River Blue River Brush Creek Kansas River Stranger Creek Wakarusa River Delaware River...
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    principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is situated at Kaw Point, the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. It is part of a consolidated...
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    city in the Midwest. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River from the west. On June...
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    northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas and Wakarusa Rivers. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 94,934...
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    Kansas, United States, although the city extends into Pottawatomie County. It is located in northeastern Kansas at the junction of the Kansas River and...
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    Fall River is a city in Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 131. Fall River was laid out in...
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    Blue River is the largest tributary of the Kansas River. The river flows for approximately 359 miles (578 km) from central Nebraska into Kansas, until...
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    The river bend's sharpest part forms a peninsula containing the Kansas City Downtown Airport. Downtown Kansas City is a section of western Kansas City...
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    Little River is a city in Rice County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 472. For millennia, the land now known...
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    state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the...
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    south as the distance from the Kansas and Missouri rivers increases. The county is drained by the watersheds of the Kansas, Blue, and Marais des Cygnes...
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    The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an...
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    Grinnell, Kansas. It flows east for 397 miles (639 km) through the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas and joins the Smoky Hill River approximately...
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    Independence, Missouri, or Kansas City (Missouri), on the Missouri River. Later, several feeder trails led across Kansas, and some towns became starting...
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    region of Kansas. The Republican River joins the Smoky Hill River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River. Some cities along the river are McCook...
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    Major creeks emptying into the Kansas River include Cross, Soldier, Mission, Indian, and Shunganunga Creeks. The Wakarusa River, which, flowing east and northeast...
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    /dəˈsoʊtoʊ/ is a city along the Kansas River, in Johnson and Leavenworth counties in the U.S. state of Kansas, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area....
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    The River Market (formerly known as Westport Landing, the City Market, and River Quay) is a riverfront neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri that comprises...
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    flows between the states of Missouri and Kansas. The Missouri swings east at Kansas City, where the Kansas River enters from the west, and so on into north-central...
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    the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City...
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  • from 1854 to 1861 Kansas, Alabama Kansas, Georgia Kansas, Illinois Kansas, Indiana Kansas, Kentucky Kansas, Ohio Kansas, Oklahoma Kansas Lake, a lake in...
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    cross the Kansas River was added. With a date of 1812, it is reputed to be the first commercial center and permanent settlement in Kansas. In 1830, Henry...
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    Delaware River (originally called the Grasshopper River) is a 94-mile-long (151 km) river located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas. The Delaware...
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    The Walnut River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 154 miles (248 km) long, in the Flint Hills region of Kansas in the United States. Via the Arkansas...
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    River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas...
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    Cottonwood River is one of the principal tributaries of the Neosho River in central Kansas of the United States. The river begins near the west line of...
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    The Smoky Hill River is a 575-mile (925 km) river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through Colorado and Kansas. The Smoky Hill is...
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    distance from the Kansas River and Missouri River increases. The county is drained by natural creek and stream watersheds of the Kaw River, which is part...
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