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  2. List of city nicknames in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Cawker City – Home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine [6] Dodge City. Queen of the Cowtowns [7] The Wickedest Little City in America [8] Emporia – Front Porch of the Flint Hills [9] Garden City – Cutting Horse Capital [10] Girard – Printing Capital of the Nation [11] Haysville – Peach Capital of Kansas [4] Jennings – Czech Us Out ...

  3. Cawker City, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Cawker City is a city in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 457. [ 3 ] The city is located along the north shore of Waconda Lake and Glen Elder State Park .

  4. Waconda Spring - Wikipedia

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    Waconda Spring, or Great Spirit Spring, [1] was a natural artesian spring located in Mitchell County, near the communities of Glen Elder and Cawker City in the U.S. state of Kansas. It was a sacred site for Native American tribes of the Great Plains and, for a time, became the site of a health spa for American settlers.

  5. Waconda Lake - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the building of Glen Elder Dam, the present-day site of Waconda Lake was the location of Waconda Spring, a natural flowing artesian well, from which the lake was named. To capitalize on it, in 1904 the Cawker City Mineral Company opened a resort on the site of the spring.

  6. Waconda USD 272 - Wikipedia

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    Waconda USD 272 is a public unified school district headquartered in Cawker City, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Cawker City, Downs, Glen Elder, Tipton, and nearby rural areas. [2]

  7. List of places in the United States named after people ...

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    Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker [115] Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin – Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it). [117] Cecilton, Maryland - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore [117]

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Presumably named after the New Jersey resort city of the same name. The nearest Atlantic shore to this town is 1,680 miles (2,700 km) away. At 37 inhabitants, it's not really a city either. Atlantis: A city in Palm Beach County, Florida. It is also the name of a town in South Africa, part of the City of Cape Town municipality. Atsiki

  9. Biggest ball of twine - Wikipedia

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    Largest community-rolled ball of twine, located in Cawker City, Kansas (2013) There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States. As of 2014 [update] , the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas , measured at 8.06 feet (2.46 m) in diameter and 10.83 feet (3 ...