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Republican rose 10 feet (3 m) in 12 minutes in McCook, destroying the structures in its path. Water was 20 feet (6 m) deep in some places, and the discharge was 280,000 cubic feet per second (7,900 m/s), more than 320 times the normal flow today.
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Republican River. A public boat access ramp was opened on the mouth of the Republican River in 2009 just upstream of the railroad bridge, providing access to the upper end of the Kansas
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1209:"A Review of Early Navigation on the Kansas River"
755:June 24, 1947, flood of the Republican River near
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291:about 3 mi (4.8 km) above the mouth
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1453:Bodies of water of Nuckolls County, Nebraska
1458:Bodies of water of Webster County, Nebraska
1146:. Vol. 1. The Lewis Publishing Company
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1140:"Chapter XII. In the Old Steamboat Days."
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1325:. December 15, 2002. Archived from
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100:Physical characteristics
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812:List of Nebraska rivers
588:Fourche des Republiques
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1265:"The Recreational Kaw"
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807:List of Kansas rivers
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607:Guide Rock, Nebraska
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1269:Friends of the Kaw
1066:The Pawnee Indians
1045:Stewart, George R.
864:"Republican River"
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1049:Names on the Land
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