Kansas River
Beginning at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, just east of aptly named Junction City (), the Kansas River flows some generally eastward to join the Missouri River at Kaw Point () in Kansas City. Dropping on its journey seaward, the water in the Kansas River falls less than . The Kansas River valley is only long; the surplus length of the river is due to meandering across the floodplain. The river's course roughly follows the maximum extent of a Pre-Illinoian glaciation, and the river likely began as a path of glacial meltwater drainage.