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  • .ks.us – Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     second-level domain
    Second-level domain
    In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a second-level domain is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain . For example, in example.com, example is the second-level domain of the .com TLD....

     for the State of Kansas
  • 25th meridian west from Washington
    25th meridian west from Washington
    The 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 102.05 degrees west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich...

  • 34th State to join the United States of America

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  • Adams-Onís Treaty
    Adams-Onís Treaty
    The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain . It settled a standing border dispute between the two...

     of 1819
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  • Agriculture
    Agriculture
    Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
    • corn
      Maize
      Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...

    • Kansas Department of Agriculture
      Kansas Department of Agriculture
      The Kansas Department of Agriculture is a department of the government of Kansas under the Governor of Kansas. It is responsible for providing services and expertise that promote and protect Kansas' food supply and natural resources while stimulating economic growth...

    • Wheat
      Wheat
      Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

    • Wine in Kansas
      Kansas wine
      Kansas wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Kansas. In the nineteenth century Kansas was a significant grape-growing state...

  • airports
  • alcohol laws
    Alcohol laws of Kansas
    The alcohol laws of Kansas are among the strictest in the United States, in sharp contrast to its neighboring state of Missouri , and similar to its other neighboring state of Oklahoma...

  • American Civil War
  • American West
    • "Old West" or "Wild West"
      American Old West
      The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

  • Amusement parks in Kansas
  • Arboreta in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Arboreta in Kansas
  • Archaeology of Kansas
    • :Category:Archaeological sites in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Archaeological sites in Kansas
  • Architecture of Kansas
  • area codes, telephone: 316
    Area code 316
    Area Code 316 is the area code for telephone exchanges in the city of Wichita, Kansas and surrounding communities. The area code formerly covered all of southern Kansas.-History of area codes in Kansas:...

    , 620
    Area code 620
    Area Code 620 was the result of a split from 316 on February 3 2001. It covers most telephone exchanges in southern Kansas. It stretches from the Colorado state line on the west to the Missouri state line on the east, while excluding the Wichita Metropolitan Area . The permissive dialing period for...

    , 785
    Area code 785
    Area Code 785 was the result of a split from 913 on July 20 1997. It covers most telephone exchanges in northern Kansas. It stretches from the Colorado state line on the west to the Missouri state line on the east, while excluding the Kansas City Metropolitan Area . The permissive dialing period...

    , 913
    Area code 913
    Area Code 913 is the area code for telephone exchanges located in the Kansas portion of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Prior to July 20 1997, 913 covered all of northern Kansas from the Colorado state line to the Missouri state line...

  • Arkansas River
    Arkansas River
    The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas...

  • Art museums and galleries in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Art museums and galleries in Kansas
  • Astronomy
    • Astronomical observatories in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Astronomical observatories in Kansas
    • Haviland Crater
      Haviland Crater
      The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas.The oval-shaped crater is 50 feet in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years...

  • attorneys general (category)
  • attractions (category)
  • aviation
    Aviation
    Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...


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  • Baby Jay
    Baby Jay
    Baby Jay is one of the mascots of the University of Kansas's sports teams. She and fellow mascot Big Jay are Jayhawks. Baby Jay was created by student Amy Sue Hurst and "hatched" at half-time of KU's Homecoming victory in football over Kansas State University on October 9, 1971, and has served as a...

  • Big Red One
  • birds
  • Bleeding Kansas
    Bleeding Kansas
    Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858...

  • (Kansas) Board of Regents
    Kansas Board of Regents
    The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

  • boarding schools (category)
  • Boeing
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

  • Botanical gardens in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Botanical gardens in Kansas
  • Boy Scouts of America
    • Scouting in Kansas
      Scouting in Kansas
      Scouting in Kansas has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.-Early history :...

  • bridges (category)
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which...

  • Buildings and structures in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Buildings and structures in Kansas
  • business
    see economy

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  • Capital of the State of Kansas
    Topeka, Kansas
    Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...

  • Capital punishment
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
  • Capitol of the State of Kansas
    Kansas State Capitol
    The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located in the city of Topeka which has served as the capital of Kansas since it became a state in 1861...
    • commons:Category:Kansas State Capitol
  • Cemeteries
  • Census
    • Census-designated places (category)
    • Census statistical areas
      Kansas census statistical areas
      The United States Census Bureau has defined 2 Combined Statistical Areas , 5 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 15 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Kansas. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...

  • Cherokee Strip
    Cherokee Strip (Kansas)
    The Cherokee Strip of Kansas, in the United States, was a disputed strip of land on the southern border of the state.-Description:In 1825 the Osage Nation was given a reservation in eastern Indian territory in what is now Kansas. In the Treaty of New Echota, May 23, 1836, the northern border of the...

  • Chisholm Trail
    Chisholm Trail
    The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the late 19th century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near the Red River, to his northern trading post near Kansas City, Kansas...

  • Churches (category)
  • Cinemas (category)
  • Cities
    • County seats
    • fictional (category)
    • former (category)
    • ghost towns (category)
    • state capital
      Topeka, Kansas
      Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...

    • unincorporated communities (category)
  • Climate of Kansas
  • colleges
    • community colleges
    • Kansas Board of Regents
      Kansas Board of Regents
      The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

  • Combined Statistical Areas
    Kansas census statistical areas
    The United States Census Bureau has defined 2 Combined Statistical Areas , 5 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 15 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Kansas. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...

     (CSAs)
  • Communications in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Communications in Kansas
  • companies based in Kansas (category)
  • congressional districts
    U.S. House of Representatives (District 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
  • congressmen
    • state (category)
    • United States

  • corn
    Maize
    Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...

  • counties
    • commons:Category:Counties in Kansas
    • county seats
    • name etymologies
  • craters
    • Haviland crater
      Haviland Crater
      The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas.The oval-shaped crater is 50 feet in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years...

  • crime (category)
  • crops
    see agriculture and other individual topics
  • culture (category)
    • festivals (category)
    • museums (category)
    • restaurants (category)

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  • Dodge City Community College
    Dodge City Community College
    Dodge City Community College is located on the Central High Plains in Ford County, southwest Kansas.-Campus:For 22 years, the College was located on the third floor of the Senior High School Building at 1601 First Avenue. By 1957, it had grown large enough to require a move to a different...

  • Dodge City
  • dams
    Lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
    This is a listing of lakes, reservoirs, and dams located in the State of Kansas.-Lakes managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:* Big Hill Lake* Clinton Lake* Copan Lake* Council Grove Lake* El Dorado Lake* Elk City Lake* Fall River Lake...

  • Demographics of Kansas
  • desegregation
    Desegregation
    Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in...

  • disasters (category)
    see also natural disasters
  • Dust Bowl
    Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936...


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  • Economy of Kansas
    • :Category:Economy of Kansas
      • commons:Category:Economy of Kansas
    • companies based in Kansas (category)
    • locations by per capita income
      Kansas locations by per capita income
      Kansas has the twenty-sixth highest per capita income in the United States, at $20,506 . Its personal per capita income is $29,935 .-Kansas counties ranked by per capita income:...

  • Education in Kansas
    Education in Kansas
    Education in Kansas is governed at the primary and secondary school level by the Kansas State Board of Education. The state's public colleges and universities are supervised by the Kansas Board of Regents.- Colleges and universities :...
    • :Category:Education in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Education in Kansas
    • boarding schools (category)
    • colleges and universities
    • elementary schools (category)
    • high schools
    • Kansas Board of Regents
      Kansas Board of Regents
      The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

    • law schools (category)
    • middle schools (category)
    • preparatory schools (category)
    • unified school districts (USD)
  • Eisenhower, President Dwight D.
    • biography
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
      Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

    • Eisenhower Presidential Center
      Eisenhower Presidential Center
      The Eisenhower Presidential Center, officially known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum or Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, includes the Eisenhower presidential library, President Dwight David Eisenhower's boyhood home, Museum, and gravesite...

  • Elections in the State of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Kansas elections
  • elementary schools (category)
  • energy
    • facilities (category)
    • Hugoton Natural Gas Area
      Hugoton Natural Gas Area
      Hugoton Natural Gas Area is a combination of large natural gas fields in the U.S. state of Kansas, the largest of which is the Hugoton Field. Its name is derived from the town of Hugoton, Kansas, near which the Hugoton Field was first discovered.-History:...

    • wind power
      Wind power
      Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....

  • Environment of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Environment of Kansas
  • etymologies
    • county names
  • evolution hearings
    Kansas evolution hearings
    The Kansas evolution hearings were a series of hearings held in Topeka, Kansas, United States May 5 to May 12, 2005 by the Kansas State Board of Education and its State Board Science Hearing Committee to change how evolution and the origin of life would be taught in the state's public high school...

  • executions
  • Exodusters
    Exodusters
    Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who fled the Southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 1880. After the end of Reconstruction, racial oppression and rumors of the reinstitution of slavery led many freedmen to seek a new place to live....


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  • Farming
    Agriculture
    Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

  • Festivals in Kansas
    • Kansas State Fair
      Kansas State Fair
      The annual Kansas State Fair is held in Hutchinson each September. The 2012 State Fair runs from September 7 through September 16.The Kansas State Fair is held annually beginning the Friday following Labor Day and lasts for 10 days at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson, Kansas.The largest...

    • commons:Category:Festivals in Kansas
  • Fiction
    • Fictional characters from Kansas (category)
    • Films set in Kansas
    • Television shows set in Kansas (category)
  • Flag of the State of Kansas
  • Flora of Kansas (category)
  • Forts in Kansas
    • :Category:Forts in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Forts in Kansas

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  • gardens, botanical (category)
  • Geography of Kansas
    • :Category:Geography of Kansas
      • commons:Category:Geography of Kansas
  • Geology of Kansas
    Geology of Kansas
    The Geology of Kansas encompasses the geologic history of the US state of Kansas and the present-day rock and soil that is exposed there. Rock that crops out in Kansas was formed during the Phanerozoic eon, which consists of three geologic eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic...
    • :Category:Geology of Kansas
      • commons:Category:Geology of Kansas
  • Ghost towns in Kansas
    • :Category:Ghost towns in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Ghost towns in Kansas
  • Golf clubs and courses in Kansas
  • Government of the State of Kansas
    Government of Kansas
    The government of the US state of Kansas, established by the Kansas Constitution, is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal government of the United States. The state government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial...

      website
    • :Category:Government of Kansas
      • commons:Category:Government of Kansas
  • government agencies
    • Kansas Board of Regents
      Kansas Board of Regents
      The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

    • Kansas Department of Agriculture
      Kansas Department of Agriculture
      The Kansas Department of Agriculture is a department of the government of Kansas under the Governor of Kansas. It is responsible for providing services and expertise that promote and protect Kansas' food supply and natural resources while stimulating economic growth...

    • Kansas Highway Patrol
    • state agencies (category)
    • State Library of Kansas
      State Library of Kansas
      The State Library of Kansas is a department within the state government of Kansas, with locations in Topeka and Emporia. Jo Budler is the State Librarian.-Locations:...

  • Governor of the State of Kansas
    Governor of Kansas
    The Governor of the State of Kansas is the head of state for the State of Kansas, United States. Under the Kansas Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the Kansas executive branch, of the government of Kansas. The Governor is the...
  • Great Plains
    Great Plains
    The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S...

  • Great Seal of the State of Kansas

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  • Hamilton Quarry
    Hamilton Quarry
    Hamilton Quarry is a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States. It has a diverse assemblage of unusually well-preserved marine, euryhaline, freshwater, flying, and terrestrial fossils . This extraordinary mix of fossils has led to the interpretation of an estuarine...

  • Haviland crater
    Haviland Crater
    The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas.The oval-shaped crater is 50 feet in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years...

  • Heritage railroads in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Heritage railroads in Kansas
  • High Plains
    High Plains (United States)
    The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains mostly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains...

  • high schools
  • Highway routes in Kansas
    • Interstate (category)
    • Kansas Highway Patrol
    • state
    • U.S. (category)
  • Highway Patrol of Kansas
  • Hiking trails in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Hiking trails in Kansas
  • historic places
  • historical figures
  • History of Kansas
    History of Kansas
    The history of Kansas, argued historian Carl L. Becker a century ago, reflects American ideals. He wrote: "The Kansas spirit is the American spirit double distilled. It is a new grafted product of American individualism, American idealism, American intolerance. Kansas is America in...
    • Historical outline of Kansas
      • :Category:History of Kansas
        • commons:Category:History of Kansas
  • hospitals
  • hotels (category)

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  • Images of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Kansas
  • Interstate highways (category)
  • Islands in Kansas

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  • Kansas
    Kansas
    Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

     website
    • :Category:Kansas
      • commons:Category:Kansas
        • commons:Category:Maps of Kansas
  • Kansas Board of Regents
    Kansas Board of Regents
    The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal...

  • Kansas Department of Agriculture
    Kansas Department of Agriculture
    The Kansas Department of Agriculture is a department of the government of Kansas under the Governor of Kansas. It is responsible for providing services and expertise that promote and protect Kansas' food supply and natural resources while stimulating economic growth...

  • Kansas Forts and Posts
    Kansas Forts and Posts
    - Prior to 1854 :Kansas had military forts prior to 1854, when it became a territory. The French established a fort at what is now Fort Leavenworth. The United States obtained possession to most of present-day Kansas in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. By 1854 a handful of US Army posts existed...

  • Kansas Highway Patrol
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty if they would allow slavery within...

  • Kansas River
    Kansas River
    The Kansas River is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its name come from the Kanza people who once inhabited the area...

  • Kansas Speedway
    Kansas Speedway
    Kansas Speedway is a tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. The speedway was built in 2001 and currently hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The IndyCar Series also raced at the speedway until 2011...

  • Kansas State Capitol
    Kansas State Capitol
    The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located in the city of Topeka which has served as the capital of Kansas since it became a state in 1861...

  • Kansas State Fair
    Kansas State Fair
    The annual Kansas State Fair is held in Hutchinson each September. The 2012 State Fair runs from September 7 through September 16.The Kansas State Fair is held annually beginning the Friday following Labor Day and lasts for 10 days at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson, Kansas.The largest...

  • Kansas Supreme Court
    Kansas Supreme Court
    The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the state of Kansas. Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, the Court supervises the legal profession, administers over the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals...

  • Kansas Territory
    Kansas Territory
    The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Kansas....

  • Kansas Turnpike
    Kansas Turnpike
    The Kansas Turnpike is a freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. It runs in a general southwest-northeast direction from the Oklahoma border, and passes through several major Kansas cities, including Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City...

  • Kaw
    Kaw (tribe)
    The Kaw Nation are an American Indian people of the central Midwestern United States. The tribe known as Kaw have also been known as the "People of the South wind", "People of water", Kansa, Kaza, Kosa, and Kasa. Their tribal language is Kansa, classified as a Siouan language.The toponym "Kansas"...

  • KS – United States Postal Service
    United States Postal Service
    The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...

     postal code for the State of Kansas

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  • malls (category)
  • Maps of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Maps of Kansas
  • mayors (category)
  • meadowlark
    Meadowlark
    Meadowlarks are birds belonging to the genus Sturnella in the New World family Icteridae.This genus includes seven species of largely insectivorous grassland birds...

  • media (category)
  • metropolitan areas
    • Kansas City Metropolitan Area
      Kansas City Metropolitan Area
      The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...

    • Metropolitan Statistical Areas
      Kansas census statistical areas
      The United States Census Bureau has defined 2 Combined Statistical Areas , 5 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 15 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Kansas. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...

       (MSAs)
  • middle schools (category)
  • Midwestern United States
    Midwestern United States
    The Midwestern United States is one of the four U.S. geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau, providing an official definition of the American Midwest....

  • military
  • Missouri River
    Missouri River
    The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...

  • Monuments and memorials in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Monuments and memorials in Kansas
  • Mount Sunflower
    Mount Sunflower
    Mount Sunflower is the highest natural point in the state of Kansas. At , it is above the state's topographic low point in Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas due to the gradual rise towards the Rocky Mountains to the west...

  • movie theatres (category)
  • municipal universities
  • Museums in Kansas
    • :Category:Museums in Kansas
      • commons:Category:Museums in Kansas
  • Music of Kansas
    Music of Kansas
    For many decades, Kansas has had a vibrant country and bluegrass scene. The Country Stampede Music Festival – one of the largest music festivals in the country – and the bluegrass/acoustic Walnut Valley Festival are testament to the continued popularity of these music genres in the state...
    • commons:Category:Music of Kansas
    • :Category:Kansas musical groups
    • :Category:Kansas musicians
    • :Category:Music venues in Kansas

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  • National Wildlife Refuges (category)
  • Native American tribes (category)
  • Natural arches of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Natural arches of Kansas
  • natural disasters (category)
    • tornadoes (category)
  • Natural history of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Natural history of Kansas
  • naval ships
    • USS Kansas
      USS Kansas
      USS Kansas may refer to:, a gunboat which saw action during the American Civil War, a Connecticut-class battleship which sailed with the Great White FleetSee also...

    • USS Topeka
      USS Topeka
      USS Topeka, named after the state capital Topeka, Kansas, may be any one of these United States Navy ships:, a gunboat bought in England 1898, originally built as Diogenes by Howaldtswerke in Kiel and in periodic use until 1929., a light cruiser of World War II, recommissioned in 1960 as the guided...

  • newspapers

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  • observatories, astronomical (category)
  • Old West
    American Old West
    The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

  • Oregon Trail
    Oregon Trail
    The Oregon Trail is a historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.After 1840 steam-powered riverboats and steamboats traversing up and down the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers sped settlement and development in the flat...

  • Outdoor sculptures in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Outdoor sculptures in Kansas
  • Ozarks
    The Ozarks
    The Ozarks are a physiographic and geologic highland region of the central United States. It covers much of the southern half of Missouri and an extensive portion of northwestern and north central Arkansas...


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  • parks
    • amusement (category)
    • state parks
    • zoological (category)
  • Pawnee, Kansas Territory
    Pawnee, Kansas
    Pawnee is a ghost town in Geary County, Kansas, United States, which served as the first official capital of the Kansas Territory in 1855. Pawnee was the territorial capital for exactly five days – from July 2 to July 6, 1855 – before pro-slavery legislators voted to move the capital to Shawnee...

    , first territorial capital 1855
  • People from Kansas
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  • Places in Kansas
  • politicians (category)
  • Politics of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Politics of Kansas
  • preparatory schools (category)
  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • biography
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
      Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

    • Eisenhower Presidential Center
      Eisenhower Presidential Center
      The Eisenhower Presidential Center, officially known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum or Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, includes the Eisenhower presidential library, President Dwight David Eisenhower's boyhood home, Museum, and gravesite...

  • prisons, state
  • Protected areas of Kansas
    • commons:Category:Protected areas of Kansas

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  • radio stations
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  • railroads
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  • Registered Historic Places
  • Religion in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Religion in Kansas
    • cemeteries (category)
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  • Republican Party of Kansas
  • reservoirs
    Lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
    This is a listing of lakes, reservoirs, and dams located in the State of Kansas.-Lakes managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:* Big Hill Lake* Clinton Lake* Copan Lake* Council Grove Lake* El Dorado Lake* Elk City Lake* Fall River Lake...

  • restaurants (category)
  • rivers
  • Rock formations in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Rock formations in Kansas

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  • Santa Fe Trail
    Santa Fe Trail
    The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1822 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial and military highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880...
    • Santa Fe Trail Remains
      Santa Fe Trail Remains
      Sante Fe Trail Remains, also known as Santa Fe Trail Ruts, is a two mile section of the former long Santa Fe Trail that is the "longest continuous stretch of clearly defined Santa Fe Trail rut remains in Kansas."...

  • schools
    see education
  • Scouting in Kansas
    Scouting in Kansas
    Scouting in Kansas has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.-Early history :...

  • seal
    Seal of Kansas
    The Great Seal of the State of Kansas tells the history of Kansas.The seal contains:* Landscape with a rising sun * River and steamboat * Settler's cabin and a man plowing a field [foreground]...

  • senators
    • state (category)
    • United States
  • Settlements in Kansas
    • Cities in Kansas
    • Townships in Kansas
    • Census Designated Places in Kansas
    • Other unincorporated communities in Kansas
    • List of ghost towns in Kansas
  • Shawnee Mission, Kansas Territory
    Shawnee Methodist Mission
    Shawnee Methodist Mission was a camp established by missionaries in 1830 to minister to the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans, relocated to its present location in 1839. It was also the second capital of the Kansas Territory, holding that designation from July 16, 1855, to the spring of 1856...

    , territorial capital 1855-1856
  • ships of the U.S. Navy, USS Kansas
    USS Kansas
    USS Kansas may refer to:, a gunboat which saw action during the American Civil War, a Connecticut-class battleship which sailed with the Great White FleetSee also...

  • shopping malls (category)
  • snakes
  • Sports in Kansas
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  • state highways
  • State of Kansas website
    • Government of the State of Kansas
      Government of Kansas
      The government of the US state of Kansas, established by the Kansas Constitution, is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal government of the United States. The state government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial...
      • :Category:Government of Kansas
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  • state parks
  • state prisons
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  • state universities
  • Structures in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Buildings and structures in Kansas
  • Sunflower
    Sunflower
    Sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence . The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads...

  • Symbols of the State of Kansas website
    • Kansas state amphibian: Barred Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma mavortium
      Ambystoma mavortium
      Ambystoma mavortium, commonly known as the Barred Tiger Salamander, is a species of salamander found from southwestern Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, south through the western United States to Texas and northern Mexico.- Description :The tiger salamander is the...

      )
    • Kansas state bird: Western Meadowlark
      Western Meadowlark
      Not to be confused with Eastern MeadowlarkThe Western Meadowlark is a medium-sized icterid bird, about 8.5 in long. It nests on the ground in open country in western and central North America. It feeds mostly on insects, but also seeds and berries...

       (Sturnella neglecta)
    • Kansas state fish: Channel Catfish
      Channel catfish
      Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States they are the most fished catfish species with approximately 8...

       (Ictalurus punctatus)
    • Kansas state flag: Flag of the State of Kansas
    • Kansas state flower: Wild Sunflower
      Sunflower
      Sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence . The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads...

       (Helianthus annuus)
    • Kansas state insect: Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera)
    • Kansas state mammal: American Bison
      American Bison
      The American bison , also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds...

       (Bison bison)
    • Kansas state motto: Ad astra per aspera (Latin for To the stars through difficulties)
    • Kansas state nickname: Sunflower State
    • Kansas state reptile: Ornate Box Turtle
      Ornate box turtle
      The Ornate box turtle is one of only two terrestrial species of turtles native to the Great Plains of the United States. It is one of the two different subspecies of Terrapene ornata. It is the state reptile of Kansas...

       (Terrapene ornata ornata)
    • Kansas state seal: Great Seal of the State of Kansas
    • Kansas state soil: Harney Silt Loam website (unofficial)
    • Kansas state song: Home on the Range
      Home on the Range
      "Home on the Range" is the state song of Kansas, U.S.Home on the Range may also refer to:* Home on the Range , a drama directed by Arthur Jacobson* Home on the Range , a Disney animated feature film...

    • Kansas state tree: Plains Cottonwood (Populus sargentii)
    • United States quarter dollar - Kansas 2005

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  • Telecommunications in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Communications in Kansas
  • Telephone area codes in Kansas
    • 316
      Area code 316
      Area Code 316 is the area code for telephone exchanges in the city of Wichita, Kansas and surrounding communities. The area code formerly covered all of southern Kansas.-History of area codes in Kansas:...

      , 620
      Area code 620
      Area Code 620 was the result of a split from 316 on February 3 2001. It covers most telephone exchanges in southern Kansas. It stretches from the Colorado state line on the west to the Missouri state line on the east, while excluding the Wichita Metropolitan Area . The permissive dialing period for...

      , 785
      Area code 785
      Area Code 785 was the result of a split from 913 on July 20 1997. It covers most telephone exchanges in northern Kansas. It stretches from the Colorado state line on the west to the Missouri state line on the east, while excluding the Kansas City Metropolitan Area . The permissive dialing period...

      , 913
      Area code 913
      Area Code 913 is the area code for telephone exchanges located in the Kansas portion of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Prior to July 20 1997, 913 covered all of northern Kansas from the Colorado state line to the Missouri state line...

  • television
    • personalities (category)
    • stations
    • television shows set in Kansas (category)
  • Territory of Kansas, 1854–1861
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  • Theatres in Kansas
    • commons:Category:Theatres in Kansas
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  • Topeka, Kansas
    Topeka, Kansas
    Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...

    , territorial and state capital since 1856
  • tornadoes (category)
  • Tourism in Kansas  website
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  • Transportation in Kansas
    • :Category:Transportation in Kansas
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  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War on February 2, 1848...

     of 1848
  • 25th meridian west from Washington
    25th meridian west from Washington
    The 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 102.05 degrees west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich...


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  • unified school districts (USD)
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  • United States of America
    • States of the United States of America
      U.S. state
      A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

    • United States census statistical areas of Kansas
      Kansas census statistical areas
      The United States Census Bureau has defined 2 Combined Statistical Areas , 5 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 15 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Kansas. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...

    • United States congressional delegations from Kansas
      United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas
      These are tables of congressional delegations from Kansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:- Delegates from Kansas Territory :-United States House of Representatives:-1859 - 1873: 1 seat at-large:...

    • United States congressional districts in Kansas
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
      United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
      The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Colorado* District of Kansas...

    • United States District Court for the District of Kansas
      United States District Court for the District of Kansas
      The United States District Court for the District of Kansas is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Kansas. The Court operates out of the Robert J. Dole United States Courthouse in Kansas City, the Frank Carlson Federal Building in Topeka, and the United States Courthouse...

    • United States Representatives from Kansas
    • United States Senators from Kansas
  • universities
  • U.S. Highways (category)
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  • U.S. Route 66
    U.S. Route 66
    U.S. Route 66 was a highway within the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 -- with road signs erected the following year...

  • US-KS
    US-KS
    US-KS may refer to:*An abbreviation for Kansas, USA.*US-KS "Oko" - The first USSR ICBM launch early-warning satellite system, also known as "Oko" . See...

     – ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the United States, ISO...

     region code for the State of Kansas
  • USS Kansas
    USS Kansas
    USS Kansas may refer to:, a gunboat which saw action during the American Civil War, a Connecticut-class battleship which sailed with the Great White FleetSee also...

  • USS Topeka
    USS Topeka
    USS Topeka, named after the state capital Topeka, Kansas, may be any one of these United States Navy ships:, a gunboat bought in England 1898, originally built as Diogenes by Howaldtswerke in Kiel and in periodic use until 1929., a light cruiser of World War II, recommissioned in 1960 as the guided...


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  • water companies
  • Water parks in Kansas
  • wheat
    Wheat
    Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

  • Wikimedia
    • Wikimedia Commons:Category:Kansas
      • commons:Category:Maps of Kansas
    • Wikinews:Category:Kansas
      • Wikinews:Portal:Kansas
    • Wikipedia Category:Kansas
      • Wikipedia Portal:Kansas
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Kansas
        • :Category:WikiProject Kansas articles
        • :Category:WikiProject Kansas members
  • wildlife
    Wildlife
    Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....
    • birds
    • cougar
    • coyote
      Coyote
      The coyote , also known as the American jackal or the prairie wolf, is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada...

    • hunting
      Hunting
      Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...

    • meadowlark
      Meadowlark
      Meadowlarks are birds belonging to the genus Sturnella in the New World family Icteridae.This genus includes seven species of largely insectivorous grassland birds...

    • National Wildlife Refuges (category)
    • pronghorn
      Pronghorn
      The pronghorn is a species of artiodactyl mammal endemic to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the prong buck, pronghorn antelope, or simply antelope, as it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and...

    • snakes
    • white-tailed deer
      White-tailed Deer
      The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States , Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru...

    • zoos (category)
  • Wild West
    American Old West
    The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

  • wine
    Kansas wine
    Kansas wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Kansas. In the nineteenth century Kansas was a significant grape-growing state...

  • Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station
    Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station
    Wolf Creek Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located near Burlington, Kansas, occupies 9,818 acres of the total 11,800 acres controlled by the owner...

  • writers (category)

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  • Zoos in Kansas
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