Category archives for Wakarusa River (Kansas)

Kansas River-Dragoon Creek drainage divide area landform origins in Wabaunsee, Shawnee, and Osage Counties, Kansas, USA

Abstract: The Kansas River-Dragoon Creek drainage divide area in Wabaunsee, Shawnee, and Osage Counties was eroded by immense south and southeast oriented floods from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet, which flowed into and across Kansas. Southeast-oriented Dragoon Creek flows to southeast-oriented Hundred and Ten Mile Creek, which flows to southeast-oriented Marais des Cygnes […]

Kansas River-Pottawatomie Creek drainage divide area landform origins in Douglas, Franklin, and Anderson Counties, Kansas, USA

Abstract: The Kansas River-Pottawatomie Creek drainage divide area in Douglas, Franklin, and Anderson Counties, Kansas is actually three major west to east oriented drainage divides. The northern drainage divide is between the east-oriented Kansas River and east-oriented Wakarusa River, which is a Kansas River tributary. South of the Kansas River-Wakarusa River drainage divide is the […]