Cow Creek (Kansas)


Cow Creek is a stream that flows through Rice and Reno Counties, Kansas. Cow Creek is a tributary of the Arkansas River; its confluence with the Arkansas is about ten miles southeast of Hutchinson, Kansas.
In the 1850s, Buffalo Bill Mathewson ran a trading post where the Santa Fe Trail crossed Cow Creek. From Lyons, Kansas, the well is located four miles west and one mile south.