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Wakarusa River | |
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Falls of the Wakarusa River | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Wabaunsee County, Kansas |
• coordinates | 38°53′44″N 95°57′36″W / 38.89556°N 95.96000°W |
• elevation | 1,261 ft (384 m) |
Mouth | Kansas River |
• location | Eudora, Kansas |
• coordinates | 38°57′22″N 95°04′56″W / 38.95611°N 95.08222°W[1] |
• elevation | 781 ft (238 m) |
Length | 80.5 mi (129.6 km) |
Discharge | |
• location | USGS 06891500 near Lawrence, KS[2] |
• average | 219 cu ft/s (6.2 m3/s) |
• minimum | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
• maximum | 22,600 cu ft/s (640 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
River system | Wakarusa—Kansas—Missouri—Mississippi |
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long,[3] in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence.