List of rivers of Kansas

This is a list of rivers in Kansas (U.S. state).

Map of principal rivers in Kansas

By Drainage Basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Mississippi River Basin

Arkansas River Basin

• Arkansas River
  • Neosho River
    • Spring River
    • Cottonwood River
  • Verdigris River
    • Caney River
    • Elk River
    • Fall River
  • Cimarron River
    • North Fork Cimarron River
  • Salt Fork Arkansas River
    • Chikaskia River
    • Medicine Lodge River
  • Grouse Creek
  • Walnut River
    • Little Walnut River
    • Whitewater River
  • Ninnescah River
    • North Fork Ninnescah River
    • South Fork Ninnescah River
  • Little Arkansas River
  • Cow Creek
  • Rattlesnake Creek
  • Walnut Creek
  • Pawnee River
    • Buckner Creek

Missouri River Basin

• Missouri River
  • Osage River (MO)
    • Little Osage River
      • Marmaton River
    • Marais des Cygnes River
  • Blue River
  • Kansas River
    • Stranger Creek
    • Wakarusa River
    • Delaware River
    • Big Blue River
      • Black Vermillion River
      • Little Blue River
    • Republican River
      • Buffalo Creek
      • White Rock Creek
      • Prairie Dog Creek
      • Sappa Creek
      • Beaver Creek
        • Little Beaver Creek
      • Arikaree River
    • Smoky Hill River
      • Solomon River
        • North Fork Solomon River
        • South Fork Solomon River
      • Saline River
      • Big Creek
      • Hackberry Creek
      • Ladder Creek
  • Wolf River
  • Big Nemaha River

Alphabetically

• Arikaree River
• Arkansas River
• Beaver Creek
• Big Blue River
• Big Creek
• Big Nemaha River
• Black Vermillion River
• Blue River
• Buckner Creek
• Buffalo Creek
• Caney River
• Chikaskia River
• Cimarron River
• Cottonwood River
• Cow Creek
• Delaware River
• Elk River
• Fall River
• Grouse Creek
• Hackberry Creek
• Kansas River
• Ladder Creek
• Little Arkansas River
• Little Beaver Creek
• Little Blue River
• Little Osage River
• Little Walnut River
• Marais des Cygnes River
• Marmaton River
• Medicine Lodge River
• Missouri River
• Neosho River
• Ninnescah River
• Pawnee River
• Prairie Dog Creek
• Rattlesnake Creek
• Republican River
• Saline River
• Salt Fork Arkansas River
• Sappa Creek
• Smoky Hill River
• Solomon River
• Spring River
• Stranger Creek
• Verdigris River
• Wakarusa River
• Walnut Creek
• Walnut River
• White Rock Creek
• Whitewater River
• Wolf River

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Kansas (1974)

External links

• M. A. Sophocleous and B. B. Wilson, "Surface Water in Kansas and its Interactions With Groundwater"
• USGS: Water resources in Kansas: streamflow conditions map

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