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Cimarron River (Arkansas River)
The Cimarron River (Pawnee: ''Káʾit iriírakiicuhat '' ) extends across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. The headwaters flow from Johnson Mesa west of Folsom in northeastern New Mexico. Much of the river's length lies in Oklahoma, where it either borders or passes through eleven counties. There are no major cities along its route.The river enters the Oklahoma Panhandle near Kenton, crosses the southeastern corner of Colorado into Kansas, re-enters the Oklahoma Panhandle, re-enters Kansas, and finally returns to Oklahoma where it joins the Arkansas River at Keystone Reservoir west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, its only impoundment. The Cimarron drains a basin that encompasses about .〔(Larry O'Dell, "Cimarron River," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' ) Accessed March 6, 2015.〕
==Etymology==
The river's present name comes from the early Spanish name, ''Río de los Carneros Cimarrón'', which is usually translated as ''River of the Wild Sheep''. Early American explorers also called it the ''Red Fork of the Arkansas'' because of water's red color. Early explorers and map-makers called it by several other names, including Grand Saline, Jefferson (in John Melish's 1820 U.S. map), Red Fork, Salt Fork, and Salt River.〔
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