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Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
Rend Lake is a 13-mile (20.9 km) long, 3-mile (4.8 km) wide reservoir located in Southern Illinois in Franklin and Jefferson Counties near the town of Benton.It contains 18,900 acres (76 km 2) of water, stores 185,000 acre-feet (228,000,000 m 3) of water, and supplies over 15 million gallons of water per day to 300,000 persons in over 60 communities.
St. John County was established in 1871, and formed from the area to the east of range 38 in what was then part of Wallace County. In 1885, the name was changed to Logan County. [28] Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873, and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was ...
Rend Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 38,900 acres (15,700 ha) in Franklin and Jefferson Counties, United States. References [ edit ]
The Big Muddy and Casey Creek have been dammed near their confluence in Franklin County, forming Rend Lake. The eastern arm of the lake is the former Casey Creek bottomland. The Casey Creek Subimpoundment Dam is located upstream of Rend Lake, forming a swamp that protects the lake to some degree from siltation.
Water backed up into the Big Muddy Basin, forming a lake much like the artificial Rend Lake but covering a larger area. The ancient lake silted in, forming a flat bottom. After the melting of the Wisconsinan glacier, the level of the Mississippi dropped, allowing the lake to drain. A new channel formed within the old lake bed.
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Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.