Big Blue River (Kansas)
river in Nebraska and Kansas in the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Big Blue River is the biggest tributary of the Kansas River. The river is about 359 miles (578 km) long.[2] It goes from central Nebraska into Kansas, until its confluence with the Kansas River at Manhattan.
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Big Blue River Great Blue Earth River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Nebraska, Kansas |
Region | Great Plains |
Cities | Manhattan, KS, Beatrice, NE, Crete, NE, Seward, NE |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
- location | Near Aurora, NE, Great Plains, United States |
- coordinates | 40°57′00″N 098°04′31″W[1] |
Mouth | Kansas River |
- location | Near Manhattan, Great Plains, United States |
- coordinates | 39°11′17″N 096°31′40″W[1] |
Length | 359 mi (578 km), South[2] |
Discharge | |
- location | Manhattan, KS[3] |
- average | 982 cu ft/s (27.8 m3/s)[3] |
- minimum | 8 cu ft/s (0.23 m3/s) |
- maximum | 18,000 cu ft/s (510 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
River system | Kansas River watershed |
Tributaries | |
- left | Little Blue River, West Fork of the Little Blue River |
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Its name was given from the Kansa tribe of Native Americans. They lived at its mouth from 1780 to 1830. They called it the Great Blue Earth River.