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El Dorado was laid out and platted in 1868. The name is of Spanish origin meaning "golden land". [8] El Dorado was incorporated in 1870. [9]In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado; in 1881 it was extended to Douglass, and later to Arkansas City. [10]
311 (telephone number) A LinkNYC kiosk in New York City, advertising the city's 311 system. 311 is a special telephone number supported in many communities in Canada and the United States. The number provides access to non-emergency municipal services. The number format follows the N11 code for a group of short, special-purpose local numbers as ...
1991 Andover tornado outbreak. From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and focused along a dryline, these distinct thunderstorms moved northeast through a moist and highly unstable environment. A total of 55 tornadoes were confirmed, many of which ...
Agency executive. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary of Corrections. Website. doc.ks.gov. The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC)[ 1 ] is a cabinet-level agency of Kansas that operates the state's correctional facilities, both juvenile and adult, the state's parole system, and the state's Prisoner Review Board. It is headquartered in Topeka.
El Dorado Lake is a reservoir on the Walnut River 0.5 miles (0.80 km) northeast of El Dorado in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. [5][6] Built and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it is used for flood control, recreation, and water supply. El Dorado State Park is located on its shore.
Butler County, Kansas. Kansas. (2020) [ 1 ] Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas and is the largest county in the state by total area. [ 3 ] Its county seat is El Dorado and its most populous city is Andover. [ 4 ] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 67,380. [ 1 ] The county was named for Andrew Butler, a U.S ...
October 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM. A judge sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for a deadly drunk driving crash in El Dorado County in which she failed to tell authorities about her boyfriend, a ...
In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado, in 1881 it was extended to Douglass, and later to Arkansas City. [9] The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. [10] The original ...