Ayadaldapa

Ayadaldapa lies near the headwaters of Rattlesnake Creek on the Kansas plains. Three forks gather in and around Kiowa country before forming a stream that winds northeast to the Arkansas River. In its upper course the creek flows chiefly after local rains, crossing country divided between sandy hills and open uplands. To the south, the Medicine Lodge River drains another part of the same plains toward the Salt Fork.