Marmaton River

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Course

The Marmaton River rises in Kansas northeast of Moran in eastern Allen County and flows generally eastward through Bourbon County in Kansas and Vernon County in Missouri, past the towns of Uniontown, Redfield and Fort Scott in Kansas and Deerfield in Missouri. It joins the Little Osage River from the south, Template:Convert south-southeast of Rich Hill, Missouri.

Name

Marmaton is a corruption of Marmiton, a French name given by fur traders meaning "scullion".[2]

See also

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed May 31, 2011
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