White Rock Creek | |
Pushpin Map: | Kansas |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of White Rock Creek |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Kansas |
Source1 Location: | Republic County, Kansas |
Source1 Coordinates: | 39.9553°N -98.667°W |
Mouth: | Republican River |
Mouth Location: | Jewell County, Kansas |
Mouth Coordinates: | 39.9195°N -97.8559°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 1473feet |
White Rock Creek is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Republican River, it flows through northern Kansas.
The mouth of White Rock Creek was the location where a group of six buffalo hunters from Waterville, Kansas were killed by Cheyenne Dog Soldiers in May 1869.[1] Also in May of 1869, the Excelsior Colony from New York, took claims along White Rock Creek and built a blockhouse north of the present town of Mankato. By June 1869, all of the settlers had left because of conflicts with the Indians.[2]