Cow Creek (Kansas)

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Map of Rice County from KDOT (map legend)

Cow Creek is a 112-mile-long (180 km)1 stream in Rice County, Kansas. Cow Creek is a tributary of the Arkansas River; its confluence with the Arkansas is about ten miles southeast of Hutchinson, Kansas.

From Lyons, Kansas, it is four miles west and one mile south. The Santa Fe Trail went over Cow Creek. Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post (known as "Buffalo Bill's Well") here at this location during the 1850s.

External articles and references

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 29, 2011

Coordinates: 37°58′47″N 97°50′24″W / 37.97972°N 97.84000°W / 37.97972; -97.84000