Big Blue River (Kansas)
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The Big Blue River is the major northern tributary of the Kansas River. The river flows for approximately 250 miles (402 km) from central Nebraska into Kansas. It was named by the Kansa tribe of Native Americans, who camped at its mouth.
The river passes through mostly agricultural land. Shortly before intersecting with the Kansas River, the Big Blue discharges its waters into a reservoir called Tuttle Creek Lake, which lies slightly northeast of Manhattan, Kansas. The reservoir is a manmade flood-control measure, held back by a dam composed of the limestone, silt, and gypsum dredged out of the floodplain by bulldozers left to rust underneath the flooded area. It is a state park area, although the Great Flood of 1993 decimated much of the northern area.
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