What is Smoky Hills?
{{Infobox mountain <!-- *** Name section *** --> | name= Smoky Hills | native_name= | other_name= <!-- *** Image *** --> | photo= Smoky Hills - Kansas.jpg | photo_size= | photo_caption= <!-- *** Etymology *** ---> | etymology= <!-- *** Country etc. *** --> | country= United States | subdivision1_type= States | subdivision1= {{enum|[[Kansas]]|[[Nebraska]]}} | subdivision2_type= Region | subdivision2= Plains Border (subregion) <!-- *** Orography *** --> | parent= [[Great Plains]] | geology= | age= [[Cretaceous]] | orogeny= <!-- *** Geography *** --> | location= | range_coordinates= {{coord|38|47|30|N|97|59|51|W|type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | area_mi2= | length_mi= | length_orientation= | width_mi= | width_orientation= | elevation_ft= | coordinates= | map= | map_size= | map_caption= }} The '''Smoky Hills''' are an [[Highland|upland]] area of [[hill]]s in the [[Great Plains]] are of North America. They are in the [[Midwestern United States]], mostly in north-central [[Kansas]] and a small part of south-central [[Nebraska]]. ==Geography== The [[Republican River]], [[Saline River (Kansas)|Saline River]], [[Solomon River]], and [[Smoky Hill River]] all go east through the Smoky Hills. This is because they start in the High Plains. Starting in the 1940s, the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] and the [[U.S. Bureau of Reclamation]] [[dam]]med these rivers at points in the Smoky Hills for [[flood control]] and [[irrigation]] reasons. This created many [[reservoir]]s.<ref>{{cite web | title = History of Kanopolis Dam | publisher = [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] | url = http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/ka/History.cfm | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090109081620/http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/ka/History.cfm | archive-date = 2009-01-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Pick Sloan Missouri Basin Program Project | publisher = [[U.S. Bureau of Reclamation]] | url = http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Pick+Sloan+Missouri+Basin+Program+Projec