Salt Fork Arkansas River

Map of the catchment area

The River at Tonkawa, Oklahoma

The Salt Fork Arkansas River is a 309 km long tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma and is part of the catchment area of ​​the Mississippi River.

Course

The river rises in Comanche County, Kansas, and flows first in a south-easterly direction, the county Barber, Kansas, and Woods, Oklahoma. In Alfalfa County, the river to the Great Salt Plains Lake is dammed.

In Alva, the river makes a bow and then flows to its mouth towards the east by the Alfalfa, Grant, Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma. It happened while the cities Pond Creek, Lamont and Tonkawa.

Seven kilometers south of Ponca City flows into the river in the Arkansas River.

The major tributary of the Salt Fork Arkansas River are the Medicine Lodge River in Alfalfa County and the Chikaskia River in Kay County.

Name Variants

The Geographic Names Information System calls for the Salt Fork Arkansas River the following former name:

• Grand Sabine River
• Grand Saline River
• Kai it tu
• Kits Kait
• Kiz pahuti hoddi
• Little Arkansas River
• Little River
• Ne Shudse Shunga
• Nesuketonga River

• Red Fork Arkansas River
• Red Fork of Arkansas River
• Salt Fork
• Salt Fork Creek
• Salt Fork of Arkansas River
• Salt Fork of the Arkansas
• Salt Fork of the Arkansas River
• Salt Fork River