History
The river was named after a branch of Pawnee Indians known as "the Republicans." Allocation of the water from the Republican River is governed through an agreement called the Republican River Compact, involving the states of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado, as modified by the settlement of a United States Supreme Court case involving a water-use dispute under the Compact.
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