Cow Creek (Kansas)

Map of Rice County from KDOT (map legend)

Cow Creek is a 112-mile-long (180 km)^[1] stream in Rice County, 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

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• Historical marker cow creek station
• "Santa Fe Trail Research". View From USGS Aerial Photographs.
• Louise Barry, The Ranch at Cow Creek Crossing (Beach Valley, P. O.)
  • Alternate site
• Donald O. Whittemore, TMDL Salt Assessment and Analysis: Chloride Impairment in the Gar-Peace and Cow Subbasins of the Lower Arkansas River Basin. Cow Creek Subbasin