Facts About Hutchison
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The city of Hutchinson was founded in 1871 when frontiersman Clinton “C.C.” Hutchinson contracted with the Santa Fe Railway to make a town at the railroad’s crossing over the Arkansas River.
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Hutchinson is located at 38°3′39″N 97°55′47″W (38.0608445, -97.9297743) at an elevation of 1,535 feet.
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The city has a total area of 22.75 square miles, of which, 22.69 square miles is land and 0.06 square miles is water.
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The city of Hutchinson was incorporated as a city on August 1872.
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Hutchinson is home to the Prairie Dunes Country Club, a golf course frequently ranked among the best golf courses in the U.S., and has hosted several United States Golf Association national championship tournaments.
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The city lies on the northeast bank of the Arkansas River in the Great Bend Sand Prairie region of the Great Plains.
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On January 17th, 2001, Hutchinson faced one of the greatest disasters, when 143 million cubic feet of compressed natural gas leaked from Yaggy Storage Field.
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The community earned the nickname “Temperance City” due to the prohibition of alcohol set by its founder.
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The estimated population of Hutchison is 40,669, as of 2020.
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Hutchinson has been home to salt mines since 1887, thus its nickname of “Salt City”, but locals call it “Hutch”.