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There are over 1,600 buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas. NRHP listings appear in 101 of the state's 105 counties . Contents: Counties in Kansas (links in italic lead to a new page)
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Haskell-Baker Wetlands: 1969: Douglas: Private An example of undisturbed wetland prairie. Baldwin Woods: 1980: Douglas: Private A unique remnant oak-hickory stand. Big Basin Prairie Preserve
Location of Douglas County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Douglas County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Park name County or counties Size Elevation Established Image Notes Cedar Bluff State Park: Trego: 850 acres (344.0 ha) 2,185 ft (666 m) 1962 Cheney State Park: Kingman, Reno: 1,913 acres (774.2 ha) 1,450 ft (442 m) 1964 Clinton State Park: Douglas: 1,500 acres (607.0 ha) 889 ft (271 m) 1975 Crawford State Park: Crawford: 500 acres (202.3 ha ...
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. [1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion.
Barton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Great Bend. [2] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 25,493. [1]
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas.. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking.
The National Resources Inventory (NRI) is a periodic assessment of the status and changing conditions of the soil, water, and related resources on private land conducted by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The survey has been conducted at 5-year intervals since 1977, most recently in 2007, though a 2010 mid-cycle data ...