Verdigris River

Verdigris River

ImageStackRight|275

The Verdigris River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States. It is about 280 miles (451 km) long. Via the Arkansas, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.

Course

The Verdigris is formed near Madison, Kansas by the convergence of two short headwaters streams, its North and South Forks, and flows generally southward throughout its course. South of Coffeyville, the river enters Oklahoma. It joins the Arkansas River near Muskogee, about a mile upstream of the mouth of the Neosho River.

History

The river is mentioned in accounts by Zebulon Pike (1806), Thomas Nuttall (1818), and because of the fur trade had numerous trading posts along its route. In the treaty of 1834 with the Cherokee Indians the river was named as a part of the boundary of their lands. [cite web | title ="Verdigris River," Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history | url =http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/v/verdigris_river.html | format = English | accessdate =2007-03-14]

Coffeyville Resources, based in Kansas City, Kan., experience flooding of the Verdigris River in July 2007 with the sweeping away of about 1,700 barrels of crude oil from its subsidiary's refinery at Coffeyville.

Dams and transportation

Dams built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cause the Verdigris to form Toronto Lake near Toronto, Kansas and Oologah Lake near Oologah, Oklahoma.

From just north of Catoosa, Oklahoma to its confluence with the Arkansas, barge traffic is maintained on the river as part of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System, which consists of a series of locks and dams on both streams and allows commercial navigation between the Tulsa area and the Mississippi River.

Tributaries

In Kansas, the Verdigris collects the Fall River at the town of Neodesha and the Elk River at the town of Independence. In Oklahoma it collects the Caney River in Rogers County.

Cities and towns along the river

*Altoona, Kansas
*Benedict, Kansas
*Catoosa, Oklahoma
*Coffeyville, Kansas
*Independence, Kansas
*Madison, Kansas
*Neodesha, Kansas
*Okay, Oklahoma
*Oologah, Oklahoma
*Toronto, Kansas
*Nowata, Oklahoma

ee also

*List of Kansas rivers
*List of Oklahoma rivers
*Port of Catoosa
*Nowata

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Verdigris river — Verdigris (rivière) Verdigris Localisation de la rivière Verdigris Caractéristiques Longueur 451 km Bassin  ? …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Verdigris River — River, southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. It rises in east central Kansas and flows south across the Oklahoma border, emptying into the Arkansas River northeast of Muskogee, Okla. It is 350 mi (560 km) long. * * * ▪ river, United …   Universalium

  • Verdigris (disambiguation) — *Verdigris common term for Copper(II) acetate, the green patina that forms on copper, brass and bronze, and which is used as a pigment *Verdigris River a river in Oklahoma and Kansas *Verdigris, Oklahoma a town in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area… …   Wikipedia

  • Verdigris (rivière) — Verdigris Localisation de la rivière Verdigris Caractéristiques Longueur 451 km Bassin  ? Bassin collecteur …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Verdigris, Oklahoma — Infobox Settlement official name = Verdigris, Oklahoma settlement type = Town nickname = South Claremore postal code type = ZIP codes postal code = 74019 area code = 918 blank name = FIPS code blank info = 40 14700GR|2 blank1 name = GNIS feature… …   Wikipedia

  • river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

  • Arkansas River — River, rising in central Colorado, U.S. At 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, it flows east through southern Kansas and southeast across northeastern Oklahoma and bisects Arkansas, where it empties into the Mississippi River. Navigable for 650 mi (1,046… …   Universalium

  • Verdigris — geographical name river 351 miles (565 kilometers) SE Kansas & NE Oklahoma flowing into Arkansas River …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System — Inland waterway system with McClellan Kerr Navigation System shown in red …   Wikipedia

  • McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System — The McClellan Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System is part of the inland waterway system originating at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa and running southeast through Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Mississippi River.Though it primarily follows the… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”