Editing Kansas River

{{short description|River in central & northeastern Kansas, United States}}
{{Redirect|Kaw River|the state park|Kaw River State Park}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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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 of the [[Missouri River]] drainage, which is sometimes in turn the northwesternmost portion of the extensive [[Mississippi River]] drainage. Its two names both come from the [[Kaw people|Kanza (Kaw) people]] who once inhabited the area; ''Kansas'' was one of the [[anglicization]]s of the [[French language|French]] transcription ''Cansez'' ({{IPA|fr|kɑ̃ze|IPA}}) of the original ''[[Kansa language#Phonology|kką:ze]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1950/50_2_langsdorf.htm |title=Kansas Historical Quarterly – A Review of Early Navigation on the Kansas River – Kansas Historical Society |publisher=Kshs.org |access-date=2012-08-15 }}.
''The Encyclopedia of Kansas'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-403-09921-8}}
Connelley, William E. 1918. ''[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch10p1.html Indians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211043240/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch10p1.html |date=2007-02-11 }}''. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, ch. 10, vol. 1</ref>  The city of [[Kansas City, Missouri]], was named for the river,<ref>{{cite web | title=Why is Kansas City located in Missouri instead of Kansas? | url=http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/why-kansas-city-located-missouri-instead-kansas | access-date=January 2, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716232838/http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory/why-kansas-city-located-missouri-instead-kansas | archive-date=July 16, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> as was later the state of Kansas.<ref>{{cite web |title = Kansas history page |url =http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ks_intro.htm |access-date = 2006-11-28}}</ref><ref>''The Encyclopedia of Kansas'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-403-09921-8}}</ref>

The [[river valley]] averages {{convert|2.6|mi}} in width, with the widest points being between [[Wamego, Kansas|Wamego]] and [[Rossville, Kansas|Rossville]], where it is up to {{convert|4|mi}} wide, then narrowing to {{convert|1|mi}} or less in places below [[Eudora, Kansas|Eudora]] and [[De Soto, Kansas|De Soto]]. Much of the river's [[drainage basin|watershed]] is dammed for [[flood control]], but the Kansas River is generally free-flowing and has only minor obstructions, including diversion [[weir]]s and one low-impact [[hydroelectric]] dam.

==Course==
Beginning at the confluence of the [[Republican River|Republican]] and [[Smoky Hill River|Smoky Hill]] rivers, just east of aptly named [[Junction City, Kansas|Junction City]] ({{convert|1040|ft|disp=or}}), the Kansas River flows some {{convert|148|mi}}<ref name="NHD">U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed May 31, 2011</ref> generally eastward to join the [[Missouri River]] at [[Kaw Point]] ({{convert|718|ft|disp=or}}) in [[Kansas City, Kansas]]. Dropping {{convert|322|ft}} on its journey seaward, the water in the Kansas River falls less than {{convert|2|ft/mi}}. The Kansas River [[valley]] is only {{convert|115|mi}} long;<ref name="NHD" /> the surplus length of the river is due to [[meander]]ing across the [[floodplain]]. The river's course roughly follows the maximum extent of a [[Pre-Illinoian]] glaciation, and the river likely began as a path of glacial meltwater drainage.<ref>environmental news service</ref>{{Better source|reason=The incomplete citation is unverifiable. See [[Talk:Kansas River#Better source needed - glaciation]]|date=July 2020}}

==Drainage==
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| header            = The Kansas River at [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] showing Bowersock Dam and the [[U.S. 40 and 59 Bridges]]
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The Kansas drains {{Convert|34423|sqmi}} of land in Kansas (almost all of the northern half), along with {{convert|16916|sqmi}} in [[Nebraska]] and {{convert|8775|sqmi}} in [[Colorado]], making a total of just over {{Convert|60000|sqmi}}.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/KR/kr_geol.html|title=KGS--Kansas River Corridor--Geology|website=www.kgs.ku.edu|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref> When including the Republican River and its headwater tributaries, the Kansas River system has a length of {{convert|743|mi}}, making it the 21st longest river system in the United States.<ref>[http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/riversofworld.html Lengths of major rivers<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305045437/http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/riversofworld.html |date=2009-03-05 }}</ref> Its highest headwaters are at about {{convert|6000|ft}} and extend nearly to [[Limon, Colorado]]. Much of the drainage of the river lies within the [[Great Plains]], but the river itself exists entirely within the [[Mid-Continent Region (North America)|Mid-Continent Region]]. The majority of the rest of the state is drained by the [[Arkansas River|Arkansas]] (and its tributaries, the [[Neosho River|Neosho]], [[Cimarron River (Arkansas River)|Cimarron]], and [[Verdigris River|Verdigris]], all three of which drain into the Arkansas in [[Oklahoma]]). A portion of central-eastern Kansas is drained by the [[Marais des Cygnes River]], which flows into [[Missouri]] to meet the Missouri River.  A small area in the extreme northeast part of the state drains directly into the Missouri. In the Kansas City metro area, some streams drain east into the [[Blue River (Missouri)|Blue River]] tributary of the Missouri.

==Geology==
The Kansas River flows through what is known as the Stable Interior region. Since this region is near the center of the [[North American Plate]], it has not experienced any extensive [[Fault (geology)|geologic fault]]ing, [[Fold (geology)|folding]], or [[Orogeny|mountain building]] in recent [[Geologic time scale|geologic time]]. From the confluence at Junction City, the river flows through [[limestone]], [[shale]], [[mudstone]], and occasional [[sandstone]] [[stratum|strata]] that, except for [[diagenesis]], remain largely undisturbed since [[deposition (geology)|deposition]] in shallow [[Carboniferous]] and [[Permian]] seas. The age of the [[rock (geology)|rock]] exposed by the river becomes progressively older as the river moves downstream for two main reasons. First, downstream areas experience more [[erosion]] from increased flow, and second because the slight uplift of the [[Ozarks|Ozark]] [[dome (geology)|dome]] to the southeast caused the strata in Kansas to [[Strike and dip|dip]] very slightly to the west. The [[Smoky Hill River]] and [[Republican River]] tributaries reach far to the west into the [[Cretaceous]] deposits of the [[Western Interior Seaway]] and the [[Neogene]] Period deposits of material from the uplift of the [[Rocky Mountains]], which created the [[Ogallala Formation]].<ref>{{cite web |title=KGS Map M-118--Surficial Geology of Kansas |publisher= Kansas Geological Survey |url=http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/gifs/M118_150dpi.pdf |year= 2010 }}</ref>

All of the rocks in the eastern Kansas valley are [[Sedimentary rock|sedimentary]], ranging from [[Late Pennsylvanian]] (300 million years ago) through the Permian, with three notable exceptions from the [[Quaternary]] Period. The first is river [[sand]] and [[gravel]] deposits, which have been carried in largely from erosion of the Ogallala and Cretaceous rocks by the western extents of the Kansas River tributaries. Second, the retreat of the [[Kansan glaciation]] left behind a combination of ice- and meltwater-deposited [[sediment]]s known as drifta, a poorly sorted mixture of clay, sand, gravel, and even large boulders that cover parts the Kansas River basin from the [[Big Blue River (Kansas)|Big Blue River]] and eastward. The third is [[loess]], a fine [[silt]] that may have originally been deposited by the melting water of the receding glaciers, then redeposited by the wind. The thickest loess deposits can be found in the northwest and north-central part of the Kansas River basin from southern Nebraska into northwest Kansas, as well as near the river's mouth.<ref name="autogenerated1" />

==History==
[[Image:Kaw-point-aerial.jpg|thumb|The Kansas River in confluence with the Missouri in Kansas City, Kansas with Kansas City, Missouri in the background.]]
[[File:Kansas River at Lawrence KS.jpg|thumb|The Kansas River at Lawrence, Kansas, aerial view from the north with Lake View Lake (the [[oxbow lake]] in the right foreground) and I-70 crossing]]

The first map showing the Kansas River is French [[cartographer]] [[Guillaume de L'Isle]]'s "[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3700.ct000666 Carte de la Louisiane]," which was drawn about 1718.  On it, the "Grande Riviere des Cansez" flows into the [[Missouri River]] at about the 39th [[latitude|parallel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1950/50_2_langsdorf.htm|title=A Review of Early Navigation on the Kansas River - Kansas Historical Society|website=www.kshs.org|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>  This map, with virtually no changes except for the translation of French into English, was subsequently published by John Senex, a [[London]] cartographer and engraver, in 1721.

From June 26 through 29, 1804, the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] camped at [[Kaw Point]] at the Kansas River's mouth. They praised the scenery in their accounts and noted the area would be a good location for a fort.

In August 1819, Maj. Stephen H. Long steered the first [[steamboat|steamer]] into the Kansas River with his 30-ton boat ''[[Western Engineer]]''. He made it scarcely a mile up the river before turning back, citing mud bars from the recent floods.

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 (American Civil War)|Union]] in 1861.) South of the Missouri River, that longitude still remains the boundary between Kansas and Missouri. North of the Missouri River, the state of Missouri extended its boundary further to the west in 1836 with the [[Platte Purchase]].  The river has moved slightly since this designation, but the state boundary has remained the same. This line is known as the Osage Boundary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/KAPPLER/Vol2/treaties/osa0167.htm|title=CONTENTdm|website=digital.library.okstate.edu|access-date=10 April 2018|archive-date=26 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526055414/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/KAPPLER/Vol2/treaties/osa0167.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

From the 1840s through the early 1870s, the southern [[ridge]]lines of the lower section of the Kansas River were the beginnings of the [[Oregon Trail|Oregon]], [[California Trail|California]], and [[Santa Fe Trail|Santa Fe]] trails as they left Kansas City.

Beginning in 1854, steamboats operated regularly from Kansas City to Lawrence and Topeka, and sometimes as far as [[Manhattan, Kansas|Manhattan]], Junction City, and [[Fort Riley]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_8627113_002/pages/ldpd_8627113_002_00000993.html |author= Andreas, A. T. |title= Andreas, A. T. History of the state of Kansas (Supplementary History and Description of its Counties Cities Towns and Villages) |location= Chicago |date= 1883 |page=1301 |quote= ... the State. During the territorial days of Kansas steamboats came up the river to Manhattan and as far as Junction City and should the Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas rivers, under the fostering care of the General Government, receive bountiful appropriations, the bulky products of the soil are likely lo be transported in floating barges down these improved navigable streams to the Gulf of Mexico, where they may be readily shipped to the Old World. |access-date= 2019-08-01 }}</ref> This traffic continued through the territorial period and the early years of statehood, falling off rapidly about 1860. The last steamer to travel the Kansas was the Alexander Majors, which was chartered in 1866 to run between Kansas City and Lawrence until the railroad bridge at the mouth of the river, which had been destroyed by floods, could be rebuilt. This traffic into statehood gave the Kansas legal status as a [[navigable]] stream in the eyes of the Federal government. In the 1860s, the country's goods were increasingly transported by the extensive and comparatively efficient [[railroad]] system.

On February 25, 1864, the state legislature declared the Kansas River nonnavigable, allowing railroad and bridge companies to build bridges and dams without restriction. The first train to operate in Kansas south of the Kansas River did so by crossing the river in Lawrence on November 1, 1867.<ref name="KSHS 1st rail">{{cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/p/the-building-of-the-first-kansas-railroad/13060|access-date=May 25, 2019|title=The Building of the First Kansas Railroad|publisher=Kansas Historical Society|date=August 1947|author=Harold J. Henderson|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216133627/https://www.kshs.org/p/the-building-of-the-first-kansas-railroad/13060|archive-date=December 16, 2018}} The Kansas Historical Quarterly, August 1947 (Vol. 15, No. 3), pages 225-239.</ref> This law remained in effect until 1913, when, after it had been characterized as "a crime against the public welfare of Kansas", it was finally repealed and the river's status was restored to a navigable stream. The status has not since changed, though modern commercial navigation on the river is largely confined to [[dredging]].

==Recreation==
Recreation along the Kansas River includes [[fishing]], [[canoeing]] and [[kayaking]], and [[rowing (sport)|rowing]]. There are 18 public access points along the river. The Friends of the Kaw organizes many float trips down the river each year (as well as cleanup efforts), and the Lawrence KOA rents canoes for self-guided trips. At least two rowing teams regularly use the river: The [[University of Kansas]] rowing team uses the pool above the Bowersock Dam for their training, and the Kansas City Boat Club as well as [[University of Missouri–Kansas City|University of Missouri-Kansas City]] rows in the final stretches of the river, near its mouth and the connection to the Missouri River.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://kcboatclub.com/index.php/about/|title=About|date=2012-07-24|work=Kansas City Boat Club|access-date=2018-12-01|language=en-US}}</ref>

==River modifications==
===On the river===
* '''Kansas City:''' A few yards downstream from the [[Interstate 435|I-435]] bridge, a [[weir]] diverts water to an intake for WaterOne. Portage access is on the left bank.
* '''Lawrence:''' Bowersock Dam is the largest obstruction on the river. It serves not only to create a standing pool for one of Lawrence's municipal water intakes (the other is at [[Clinton Lake (Kansas)|Clinton Lake]]), but also to create a [[Hydraulic head|head]] for the Bowersock Mills & Power Company. At this site, the Bowersock Mills & Power Company operates the only [[Hydroelectricity|hydroelectric]] [[power station]] in Kansas: a 2.5-megawatt low-impact hydropower facility.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hydro.org/policy/technology/small-hydro/|title=Small Hydro|date=2019|website=National Hydropower Association|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref> The [[University of Kansas]]'s [[rowing (sport)|rowing]] team uses the pool for its exercises. Portage access is on the left bank.
* '''Tecumseh:''' An easily navigable low head weir diverts water to the Tecumseh power plant, just downstream from Topeka.
* '''Topeka:''' A Topeka water department dam diverts water to the right bank for a municipal water intake. Portage access is on the left bank.

===Within the watershed===
The [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] and the [[Bureau of Land Management]] operate many [[Reservoir (water)|reservoirs]] within the [[drainage basin|watershed]] of the Kansas River for local and Mississippi River [[flood]] control, with secondary recreational uses.

==In popular culture==
The river is featured prominently in the 2017 documentary ''When Kings Reigned''. The film talks about life along the Kansas River in the late 1800s, and the trials that the fishermen on the river faced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6119488/reference|title=When Kings Reigned (2017)|access-date=10 April 2018|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

[[Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont|Étienne de Veniard Sieur de Bourgmont]]'s expedition into the Kansas River valley and the history of the [[Kaw people|Kanza people]] in their villages along the river is discussed in ''The Last Wild Places of Kansas'', a book by George Frazier.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Last Wild Places of Kansas|last=Frazier|first=George|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2016|isbn=9780700622207|location=Lawrence|pages=162–188}}</ref>

In [[Sara Paretsky]]'s 2017 detective novel "Fallout", in which Paretsky's Chicago-based private detective [[V.I. Warshawski]] carries out an investigation in [[Lawrence, Kansas]], a Lawrence resident tells her: "You should always say 'The Kaw' when you speak of our river. Only strangers and Google Maps call it 'The Kansas River'"(Ch. 32).

[[Johnny Kaw]] is a fictional Kansas settler created in a series of [[tall tale]] publications started in 1955 — one of his fictional feats was to have dug the Kansas River Valley.

The "Kaw River" is mentioned as a location in the western series [[Wagon Train]], in the opening scene of ''The Tom Tuckett Story'' episode (March 2, 1960).

==Places and locations along the river==
(Listed from mouth upstream)

===Counties===
* [[Wyandotte County, Kansas|Wyandotte]] and [[Johnson County, Kansas|Johnson]] (boundary in part)
* [[Jefferson County, Kansas|Jefferson]] and [[Douglas County, Kansas|Douglas]] (boundary)
* [[Shawnee County, Kansas|Shawnee]]
* [[Pottawatomie County, Kansas|Pottawatomie]] and [[Wabaunsee County, Kansas|Wabaunsee]] (boundary)
* [[Riley County|Riley]]
* [[Geary County, Kansas|Geary]]

===Cities and towns===
{| class=wikitable
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! rowspan=2 | City
! colspan=2 | Elevation
|-
! ft
! m
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| [[Kansas City, Kansas|Kansas City]]
| {{convert|730|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Shawnee, Kansas|Shawnee]]
| {{Convert|732|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Edwardsville, Kansas|Edwardsville]]
| {{Convert|741|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Bonner Springs, Kansas|Bonner Springs]]
| {{Convert|762|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[De Soto, Kansas|De Soto]]
| {{Convert|764|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]]
| {{Convert|791|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Lecompton, Kansas|Lecompton]]
| {{Convert|820|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Perry, Kansas|Perry]]
| {{Convert|820|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Tecumseh, Kansas|Tecumseh]]
| {{Convert|840|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]]
| {{Convert|852|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Willard, Kansas|Willard]]
| {{Convert|889|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Belvue, Kansas|Belvue]]
| {{Convert|911|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Wamego, Kansas|Wamego]]
| {{Convert|955|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[St. George, Kansas|St. George]]
| {{Convert|977|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Manhattan, Kansas|Manhattan]]
| {{Convert|990|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Ogden, Kansas|Ogden]]
| {{Convert|1023|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Fort Riley, Kansas|Ft. Riley]]
| {{Convert|1040|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| [[Junction City, Kansas|Junction City]]
| {{Convert|1047|ft|disp=table}}
|-
| colspan=3 | <small>Boldface denotes a major city</small>
|}

===Tributaries===
* [[Wakarusa River]]
* [[Big Blue River (Kansas)|Big Blue River]]
* [[Republican River]]
* [[Smoky Hill River]]
* [[Delaware River (Kansas)|Delaware River]]

==See also==

{{portal|Kansas}}
* [[List of rivers of Kansas]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Collier's Poster}}
* [http://www.bowersockpower.com/ Bowersock Mills & Power Company]
* [http://www.lewisandclarkwyco.org/ Kaw Point]
* [http://www.kvha.org/ Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance]
* [http://www.kansas.net/~tjhittle/kpg_vol2.html USGS]
* [http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=10270104 Lower Kansas]
* [https://www.americanrivers.org/river/kansas-river/ Midwestern Secret]
* USGS: [http://www.kansas.net/~tjhittle/kvha2map.jpg Map of Historical & Cultural Sites along Kaw Valley]
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Kansas River|short=x}}

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[[Category:Rivers of Pottawatomie County, Kansas]]
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