Prairie Dog Creek

Prairie Dog Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America.A tributary of the Republican River, it flows for 246 miles (396 km) through the American states of Kansas and Nebraska.Its source lies in west-central Thomas County roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Brewster, Kansas.[3] The Battle of Prairie Dog Creek (August 21, 1867) ended the Army's offensive operations against the Indians on the Kansas frontier for the year.In 1964, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a dam on the creek southwest of Norton, Kansas for flood control, irrigation, and municipal water supply, creating Keith Sebelius Lake.
The Battle of Prairie Dog Creek, 1867
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