Chikaskia River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas, Oklahoma |
Region | Great Plains |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Southwest Pratt County, Great Plains, Kansas, United States |
• coordinates | 37°31′00″N 098°34′43″W / 37.51667°N 98.57861°W[1] |
• elevation | 925 ft (282 m) |
Mouth | Salt Fork of the Arkansas River |
• location | Near Tonkawa, Oklahoma, United States |
• coordinates | 36°37′23″N 097°14′38″W / 36.62306°N 97.24389°W[1] |
• elevation | 282 ft (86 m)[1] |
Length | 159 mi (256 km), Southeast[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | near Blackwell |
• average | 621.8 cu ft/s (17.61 m3/s), USGS water years 1936-2019[3] |
Basin features | |
River system | Salt Fork of the Arkansas River watershed |
The Chikaskia River (usually pronounced chi-KAS-kee-uh but often pronounced chi-KAS-kee in southern Kansas) is a 159-mile-long (256 km)[2] tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States.[4] Via the Salt Fork and Arkansas rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.