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Parsons is a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 9,600. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is the most populous city of Labette County, and the second-most populous city in the southeastern region of Kansas.
The county was named after LaBette creek, [3] [4] the second-largest creek in the county, which runs roughly NNW-SSE from near Parsons to Chetopa. The creek in turn was named after French-Canadian fur trapper Pierre LaBette who had moved to the area, living along the Neosho River , and marrying into the Osage tribe in the 1830s and 1840s.
9.2 Notable historical figures not from Kansas but who ... Billie Holiday, others; Parsons; Dorothy DeLay (1917 ... Rory Lee Feek (born ca. 1966), country music ...
Charges are being sought against a Parsons officer after a necropsy found that the “extreme temperature on the day in question” was the “sole factor contributing to K-9 Karim’s” death ...
Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically saw most, if not all, of their ...
The Kansas Army Ammunition Plant (Kansas AAP) was a 13,727-acre (55.55 km 2) government-owned, contractor-operated facility, established in 1942, located near Parsons, Kansas. The plant produced ammunition during World War II , the Korean War , and the Vietnam War . [ 1 ]
Katy Days Festival is a railroad themed festival held annually during the Memorial Day Weekend in Parsons, Kansas at Forest Park. [1] It commemorates the arrival of the first Missouri–Kansas–Texas train.
Lake Parsons is a lake in the state of Kansas. Located 3 miles (5 km) north on highway 59 and 3 miles (5 km) west on 20th road from the city of Parsons, Kansas , United States . The lake has a surface area of 980 acres (4.0 km 2 ) and there are about 1,000 acres (4 km 2 ) of public-use land owned by the city of Parsons surrounding the lake.