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Marais des Cygnes River

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Contents

1 Course
2 Variant names
3 See also
4 References

The Marais des Cygnes River (muhr-ee duh SEEN) is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about 140 mi (225 km) long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Course

The Marais des Cygnes is formed about 3 mi (5 km) north of Reading in western Lyon County, Kansas by the confluence of Elm Creek and One Hundred Forty Two Mile Creek, and flows generally east-southeastwardly through Osage, Franklin, Miami and Linn Counties in Kansas, and Bates County in Missouri, past the Kansas towns of Melvern, Quenemo, Ottawa, Osawatomie and La Cygne and through the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge. In Missouri, it joins the Little Osage River at the boundary of Bates and Vernon Counties to form the Osage River, 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Schell City.

In Osage County, Kansas, a US Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form Melvern Lake, which is the site of Eisenhower State Park.

Variant names

The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Marais des Cygnes River" as the stream's name in 1971. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river has also been known as:

Big Osage River
Brush Creek
Grand River
Le Marais du Cygne River
Marais Des Cygnes River
Marias des Cygnes River

Mary de Zene River
Miry Disein River
Old Aunt Mary River
Osage River
Riviere des Osages

See also

References

[Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry]
DeLorme (2003). Kansas Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-342-7.
DeLorme (2002). Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-353-2.
[GNIS entry]

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