WALNUT RIVER (KANSAS)

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The 'Walnut River' is a tributary of the Arkansas River, 121 mi (195 km) long, in the Flint Hills region of Kansas in the United States. Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
According to the GNIS, the river has also been known in the past as the "Little Verdigris River".

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Course

The Walnut River rises in northern Butler County and flows generally southward through Butler and Cowley Counties, past the towns of El Dorado, Augusta and Winfield. It joins the Arkansas River at Arkansas City. The Walnut's principal tributaries are the Whitewater River, which joins it at Augusta, and the Little Walnut River, which joins it in southern Butler County.
Upstream of El Dorado, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form El Dorado Lake, along which a Kansas state park has been designated.
In Winfield, the old Tunnle Mill Dam is a great fishing spot. It is staged directly near the old Kickapoo Corral where a whirl pool that is created by a hole in solid limestone about 15 feet down on the river bed.

See also

★ List of Kansas rivers

External links

★ Corps of Engineers' El Dorado Lake website

★ El Dorado State Park website

Sources

★ Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry

★ DeLorme (2003). ''Kansas Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-342-7.

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