Jump to content

Prairie Dog Creek

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 15:50, 11 September 2016 (Robot - Moving category Rivers and streams of Kansas‎ to Category:Rivers of Kansas‎ per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 July 11.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Template:Geobox Prairie Dog Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Republican River, it flows for 246 miles (396 km) through the American states of Kansas and Nebraska.[1]

Geography

Prairie Dog Creek originates in the High Plains of northwest Kansas. Its source lies in west-central Thomas County roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Brewster, Kansas. From there, it flows generally northeast across northwestern Kansas. Southwest of Norton, Kansas, it is dammed to form Keith Sebelius Lake. From the reservoir's dam, the creek continues northeast to Harlan County in south-central Nebraska where it joins the Republican River to feed Harlan County Reservoir.[2]

History

In 1964, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a dam on the creek southwest of Norton, Kansas for flood control, irrigation, and municipal water supply, creating Keith Sebelius Lake.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Hydrography Dataset". National Hydrography Dataset. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  2. ^ "2003-2004 Official Transportation Map" (PDF). Kansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  3. ^ Rucker, Kevin E. (December 2009). "Almena Unit: Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program" (PDF). U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. p. 17. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prairie_Dog_Creek&oldid=738874004"