Category: Kansas

Facts About Salina The city of Salina has a total area of 25.15 square miles, of which 25.11 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles is water. Salina was named for the salty Saline River. Salina is the anchor city of the Salina Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Saline and Ottawa counties.…

Facts About Garden City Garden City was founded in 1878 by W.D. Twichell, who purchased land from the Santa Fe Railroad to create a town that would serve as a stopover for people travelling between Fort Riley and Denver. The Garden City Skyline Chili Festival is held annually on Labor Day weekend. This festival features…

Facts About Leawood Leawood was named for Oscar G. Lee, an original owner of the town site. The estimated population of Leawood is 34,702, as of 2020. Native Americans were the first inhabitants of the area eventually established as Leawood and in the early 1700’s Daniel Boone explored the land with French and American traders.…

Facts About Hutchison 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. Hutchinson is located at 38°3′39″N 97°55′47″W (38.0608445, -97.9297743) at an elevation of 1,535 feet. The city has a total area of…

Facts About Leavenworth In 1827, Colonel Henry Leavenworth founded Fort Leavenworth on the bluffs of the Missouri River. Leavenworth was founded in 1854, as the very first city in Kansas. Leavenworth is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As the…

Facts About Lenexa Lenexa is a city situated in Johnson County in the Kansas City metro area. Lenexa was known as the Spinach Capital of the World in the 1930s as it celebrated the Spinach Festival every September. Lenexa is derived from the name of Shawnee Chief Thomas Blackhoof’s wife, who was variously recorded on…

Facts About Shawnee The county was named in honour of Rev. Thomas Johnson and is among the first counties to be established in the Kansas Territory in 1855. Shawnee is the 7th largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city has a total area of 42.86 square miles, of which, 41.85 square miles…

Facts About Dodge City Dodge City is one of the most famous towns in the Old West. Dodge City was founded in 1872 by brothers John and James Raine. The city was named after Colonel Samuel H. Dodge, who helped to establish it as a town in 1872. The first building built in Dodge City…

Facts About Topeka Charles Curtis, the only Native American to ever serve as vice president of the United States, was born in Topeka. He served under President Herbert Hoover, 1928-1932. The name “Topeka” is a Kansa-Osage word that means “place where we dug potatoes”, or “a good place to dig potatoes”. As a placename, Topeka…