Nickname: Sunflower State

Country : United States of America (USA)
State : Kansas (KS)
Largest city : Wichita
Highest point : Mount Sunflower (1,212 m, 4,039 ft)
State bird: Western Meadowlark
State flower: Sunflower
Capital: Topeka
Date of admission to the Union: 29 Jan 1861
Population: 2,723,507 (official estimate 2003)
Population density: 12.8 per sq km
2002 total overseas arrivals: Under 38,000
Time: Central (GMT - 6) in the greater part of the State; Mountain (GMT - 7) in four Western counties. Daylight Saving Time is observed.
QuickFacts : Kansas QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

 

Kansas weather

Weather Underground - Kansas Conditions
Kansas Climatologies Access Page
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Statewide and regional information

Information network of Kansas (INK)
Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing Homepage
Sightseeing and travel in Kansas. Events and attractions. Farming, Indians, West, shopping, aerospace, buffalo, bison, agriculture, hiking, camping.
Kansas Sights
Kansas Towns & Cities
Kansas Pairie People
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Cities, towns and places in Kansas

Dodge City
Dodge City, KS [CityLink]

El Dorado
El Dorado, Kansas

Garden City
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce

Jackson County
Have Fun in Jackson County - Jackson County Tourism Council

Lansing
City of Lansing: City with A Future

Lawrence
Visit Lawrence, Kansas

Leavenworth
Leavenworth/Lansing Area Business and Tourism
LeavenWorth Kansas InSider

Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Kansas
Quality living with a hometown atmosphere.

Olathe
Olathe Community Network

Ottawa
Franklin County Convention & Tourism Bureau

Overland Park
Welcome to the City of Overland Park
Welcome to Overland Park, Kansas
Overland Park Chamber

Owensboro and Daviess County
Welcome to Owensboro-Daviess County!

Topeka
Topeka Convention & Visitors Bureau

Wichita
Welcome to Wichita
Wichita Kansas - A Cyberguide to Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, KS [CityLink]

Hotels, motels and lodging in Kansas

Kansas Bed & Breakfast Association
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Kansas

The State: The geographical centre of North America, Kansas is a major agricultural area, with vast areas of farmland. As highway signs remind travellers, ‘Every Kansas farmer feeds 75 people – and you.’
It was through Kansas that families on the Oregon and Santa Fe trails drove their wagons westwards in search of new homesteads, while cowboys on the Chisholm Trail drove vast herds of longhorns north in search of the railroads. To cater for the new population, cowtowns like Abilene and Dodge City were born, and as whites forced Native Americans to move westwards, fierce battles over land erupted. Later, feuds over Kansas’s maintenance of slavery gave rise to the term ‘Bleeding Kansas’.

Today, the State boasts many monuments to its Old West past, as well as numerous recreation centres, reservoirs and rivers offering all kinds of outdoor pursuits. Attractions include the restored cattle town of Dodge City. Here, it is worth visiting the Boot Hill Museum which recreates the Boot Hill Cemetery and Front Street as they looked in the 1870s. Near Boot Hill is the Gunfighter Wax Museum, located in the Kansas Teachers’ Hall of Fame. In Abilene, the Eisenhower Center houses the Eisenhower family home from 1898 to 1946, as well as a museum and library. Wichita, the largest city in Kansas, famed today for aircraft manufacture, is home to the Museums on the River District, which includes an art museum and a botanical garden. Particularly worth a visit are the Old Cowtown Museum, which introduces visitors to the cattle days of the 1870s with an open-air history exhibit, the Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum, where traditional and modern works by Native American artists are on display, and Exploration Place, with its many fascinating discovery exhibits. Wichita is also home to Sedgwick County Zoo, one of Kansas’s top tourist attractions. Kansas’s capital, Topeka, boasts the Kansas Museum of History, the Kansas State Capitol, dating back to 1866, and the Topeka Zoological Park.

For those hungry to be at the centre of the action, a trip to the stone monument 3km (2 miles) northwest of Lebanon on the northern border of the State is a must – it is the geographical centre point of the entire USA.

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