Salt Fork Arkansas River Grand Saline River, Kicpahaatihariʾ, Little Arkansas River, Nesuketonga River, Red Fork Arkansas River[1] | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas, Oklahoma |
Cities | Alva, OK, Pond Creek, OK, Lamont, OK, Tonkawa, OK |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Comanche County, Kansas |
• coordinates | 37°10′40″N 99°21′48″W / 37.17778°N 99.36333°W |
• elevation | 2,042 ft (622 m) |
Mouth | Arkansas River |
• location | Kay County, Oklahoma |
• coordinates | 36°35′58″N 97°03′11″W / 36.59944°N 97.05306°W[1] |
• elevation | 896 ft (273 m) |
Length | 239 mi (385 km) |
Discharge | |
• location | USGS 07151000 at Tonkawa, OK[2] |
• average | 927 cu ft/s (26.2 m3/s) |
• minimum | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
• maximum | 57,800 cu ft/s (1,640 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Medicine Lodge River, Chikaskia River |
Waterbodies | Great Salt Plains Lake |
Watersheds | Salt Fork Arkansas-Arkansas- Mississippi |
The Salt Fork of the Arkansas River is a 239-mile-long (385 km)[3] tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Arkansas River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.