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IU I \ I I L. -7'\.. .'\ FLOOD ON REPUBLIOAN AND KANSAS RIVERS, KAY AND JUNE 1936 29 There were tour distinot areas of intensive precipitation in central and northeastern Kanaas during the period YaT 26 to June 2. These areas were oentered in the vloinities of Plainville, Enterprise, Valley Falls, and Xankato. The area oovered by the storm that centered at Yankato in- cluded a part ot the drainage basin of the Solomon River, a tributary ot the amoky Hill River tram the west. At Beloit, Kans. (pl. 11, B), the Solomon River reaohed a atage or ~4.5 reet {disCharge 3?,BOO seoond-teet) at l2J30 a.m. June 3, the highest stage since the river measurement ata- tion at that plaoe was established in 1929. This stage also was higher than any flood stags at Beloit reported by the United States Weather Bureau sinoe observations at that plaoe were begun in 1905. During the s~e period there were heavy rains in the upper Big Blue River Basin over . somewhat elliptical area with its major axis approximated by a line drawn through the oities ot Hebron and Western, in southeastern Nebraska. TOPOGRAPHY OF THE REPUJ3LIOAN JlIVER-KANSAS RIVER BASIN The area drained by the Republican River and its tributaries in eastern Oolorado,. northwestern Kans.., ~ southern Nebraska is a part ot the Great Plains and has for its characteristio topography smooth, flat surtaces traversed bV broad, sh8.11ow "alley.. In portions of the baain, partioular]y near Haigler, Nebr., eroaa drainage outting deeply into the underlying rook has produoed deep canyons bordered. by preeipitoua "IIalls. Tr.il Canyon, , miles east of Haigler, has a tall of 300 feet in loss than 1 2 Ill1les. The northwestern ps.rt of the basin embraoes a small portion ot the vast sand-hill area ot western Nebraska, whioh is a region ot rounded sand dunea and sand ridges. Owing to the light rainfall in the upper part ot the basin, the boundaries of that part are poorly denned. The general altitude deoreases trom 6,600 teet at the western edge to 1,500 feet at the Nebraska-Kansas line. The Arikaree River, which riSes near Limon, 0010., and thrOUghout muoh at its course is an intermittent stream, unites with the North Pork at the Republican River at Haigler, Nebr~, to form the Republican River. Prom this junotion the Republioan tlows eastward. to Benkelman, where 1t 1s Joined by the South Fork. It. eoura8 is then generally eastward. across louthern Nebraska to a point 4 miles east ot Superior,. where it oroases the State line and oontinues in a southeasterly direotion to Junction City, 1 Condra, G. E.. 08010gJ and water resouroe. or the Republioan River Valle,. and adjacent areas, B'ebraakaJ U. S. Oeol. Survey Water-Supply Pa.. per 216, p. 8, 1907.