Overview - Kansas State

State Capital
Topeka

Population
2,937,880
Home Ownership
66%
Household Median
$59,597
Area
81,758.72
Time Zone
Central Time Zone

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Kansas - History

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

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

Kansas has a population of 2937880. Household median income in Kansas is $59,597Kansas’s Ethnic is the following: White(86.3%), Hispanic(12.2%), Black(6.1%), Asian(3.2%), Multiple(3.1%), Native(0.1%).

Kansas ( (listen)) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks.

The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys.

Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S.

government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas.

The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State". By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 36th most-populous of the 50 states, with a population of 2,940,865 according to the 2020 census.

Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,039 feet (1,231 meters).

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KANSAS REPRESENTATIVES

Governor of Kansas

Laura Kelly

Phone: (785) 296-3232

Lieutenant Governor of Kansas

David Toland

Phone: (785) 296-3232

KS State Treasurer

Steven Johnson

Phone: (785) 296-3171

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Old Canton City Park

Sandcreek Trail

Stafford Ks City Park

Flint Hills Nature Trail

Santa Fe City Park

Kansas River

The Troll in a Cage

Pottawatomie State Park & Fishing Lake

Sugar Valley Lake

Delano Clock Tower

Preisker Park

Miner's Memorial Park

World's Largest Spur

Rainbow Bridge

Powell Observatory

Wellington Lake

Falley Scout Reservation

Haven Park

Dog Park

Solomon City Park

Wolverton Farms

Bowl Plaza

All Seasons RV Park

Bill Burke Park

Republican River

Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park

Big Shunga Park

Gardner Lake

Scout Park

Mill Creek Streamway Park - Barker Rd. Access

Salt Discovery Well

75th Street Access Streamway Parks Trail

Kansas Bible Camp

Kaw River State Park

Quivira Park

Cottonwood River Bridge

City Park

Hildebrand Farms Dairy

Buck Fund Dog Park

Rock City

Lake Perry

Eagle Lake

Flint Hills Nature Trail

City Park

Indian Rock

Lovewell State Park

Randolph State Park

Farmington Park

Warnock Lake

Garrett Park

Bradley Fair Lake

Brookfield Park Subdivision

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Mc Laughlin Park

Neosho Riverwalk

Pott. 2 State Fishing Lake

Sumner Park

Keith Sebelius Lake

Herington Water Tower

Andover Central Park

Harrison Park

Haven Park

Dead Tree Water

First Stretch of US Interstate

Creek on Armour

Lone Elm Park

Playworld Park

Pony Express Bridge

Rock City

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