Medicine Lodge River

Position of the Medicine Lodge River in the catchment area of ​​the Salt Fork Arkansas River

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The Medicine Lodge River is a 163 km long tributary of the Salt Fork Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. He belongs to the basin of the Mississippi River.

The river rises in Kiowa County and then flows in a south-easterly direction through the Barber County, Kansas and the Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Here it flows through the cities of Belvidere, Sun City and Medicine Lodge. About eight kilometers northeast of Cherokee, he runs into the Salt Fork Arkansas River, a tributary of the Arkansas River.

The United States Board on Geographic Names has established only in 1968 on " Medicine Lodge River" as the name of the river. According to the Geographic Names Information System, he was historically referred to as "A- ya -pa - dalda River ", " Medicine Lodge Creek " and " Medicine River ".