Ladder Creek

Ladder Creek
Beaver Creek, Chalk Creek
Ladder Creek is located in Kansas
Ladder Creek
Location of mouth within Kansas
Ladder Creek is located in the United States
Ladder Creek
Ladder Creek (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StatesColorado, Kansas
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationFirstview, Colorado
 • coordinates38°48′45″N 102°32′37″W / 38.81250°N 102.54361°W / 38.81250; -102.54361
 • elevation4,565 ft (1,391 m)
MouthSmoky Hill River
 • location
Elkader, Kansas
 • coordinates
38°47′57″N 100°51′36″W / 38.79917°N 100.86000°W / 38.79917; -100.86000[1]
 • elevation
2,631 ft (802 m)
Length230 mi (370 km)
Basin size1,407 sq mi (3,640 km2)
Basin features
WatershedsLadder-Smoky Hill-Kansas-Missouri-Mississippi

Ladder Creek is a 230-mile-long (370 km)[2] stream in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Smoky Hill River, it flows from eastern Colorado into western Kansas.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Ladder Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 29, 2011
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference COMap was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference KDOT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).