Smoky Hill

Just west of camp, the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers joined to form the muddy flow that skirted Funston’s grid of long, rectangular barracks, chow halls, hospitals, parade grounds, quartermaster stations, classrooms, libraries, and company headquarters.

Officials say Saline County faces the potential for record flooding along Mulberry Creek near Salina and Smoky Hill River near New Cambria.

The birds have thrived on a ranch in Scott City and along the Smoky Hill River basin, despite seeing a decline in most of its native habitat.

It was found in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of western Kansas in 1991, LiveScience reports, but it was originally identified as a Platecarpus, a genus that could grow to almost 20 feet in length.

Jeri Sparks, who died in March, left a $321,975 bequest from her trust fund to the Smoky Hill River Festival.