Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Kansas River is a river in northeastern Kansas, USA. It begins at the confluence of the Republican River and the Smoky Hill River at Junction City and flows generally eastward to the Missouri River at Kansas City, Missouri. Some of the cities it passes through are Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.