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We would like to provide the residents of  El Dorado  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the El Dorado Home page. The El Dorado Home page provides as much information as possible on El Dorado. Knowing El Dorado’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within El Dorado’s Home page, you will also find El Dorado’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

El Dorado has a population of 17826. 46.8% of El Dorado’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.2 are female. 40.4% of El Dorado is married and 59.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $92,988, and the average rent is $720. Household median income in El Dorado is $43,409, and the individual median income is $24,240. El Dorado’s Ethnic is the following: White(49.4%), Black(47.9%), Hispanic(6.7%), Asian(1.2%), Multiple(0.9%), Other(0.7%).


El Dorado was laid out and platted in 1868. The name is of Spanish origin meaning "golden land". El Dorado was incorporated in 1870.In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado; in 1881 it was extended to Douglass, and later to Arkansas City.


The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. The original branch line connected Florence, Burns, De Graff, El Dorado, Augusta, Douglass, Rock, Akron, Winfield, and Arkansas City. In 1915, the El Dorado Oil Field was the first oil field that was found using science/geologic mapping, and part of the Mid-Continent oil province.


By 1918, the El Dorado Oil Field was the largest single field producer in the United States, and was responsible for 12.8% of national oil production and 9% of the world production. It was deemed by some as "the oil field that won World War I".In 1916, there was an anti-black race riot in El Dorado after an incident between a black shoe shiner and a white oil worker.


Large numbers of black families removed their household goods and moved out of El Dorado.In 1943, German and Italian prisoners of World War II were brought to Kansas and other Midwest states as a means of solving the labor shortage caused by American men serving in the war effort. Large internment camps were established in Kansas: Camp Concordia, Camp Funston (at Fort Riley), Camp Phillips (at Salina under Fort Riley).


Fort Riley established 12 smaller branch camps, including El Dorado. Prisoners commonly volunteered to help work on local farms; this enabled them to spend time outside the camp, socialize and eat better food than that provided by prison guards. In some cases, smaller structures constructed by the work details still stand.On June 10, 1958, a tornado hit El Dorado and killed 13 people.


In 2008, the city built a memorial at Graham Park in remembrance of the dead.


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