Medicine Lodge River A-ya-dalda-pa River, Hohkii'yohe, Medicine River[1] | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas, Oklahoma |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Kiowa County, Kansas |
• coordinates | 37°30′51″N 99°20′22″W / 37.51417°N 99.33944°W |
• elevation | 2,330 ft (710 m) |
Mouth | Salt Fork Arkansas River |
• location | Alfalfa County, Oklahoma |
• coordinates | 36°49′40″N 98°19′38″W / 36.82778°N 98.32722°W[1] |
• elevation | 1,165 ft (355 m) |
Length | 130 mi (210 km) |
Discharge | |
• location | USGS 07149000 near Kiowa, Kansas[2] |
• average | 147 cu ft/s (4.2 m3/s) |
• minimum | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
• maximum | 9,660 cu ft/s (274 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Watersheds | Medicine Lodge-Salt Fork Arkansas-Arkansas- Mississippi |
The Medicine Lodge River is a 130-mile-long (210 km)[3] tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Salt Fork and Arkansas rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.