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Coffeyville is in the southeast corner of Kansas, about 75 miles (121 km) north of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 60 miles (97 km) west of Joplin, Missouri. The city is situated about one-half mile north of the Oklahoma state line along the west bank of the Verdigris River. The city is the location of the lowest point in the state of Kansas at 679 feet ...
City or town Description 1: Archeological Site Number 14MY1: July 9, 1982 ... Coffeyville Carnegie Public Library Building: June 25, 1987 : 415 W. Eighth
The lowest point in the state of Kansas is located on the Verdigris River in Cherokee Township in Montgomery County (just southeast of Coffeyville), where it flows out of Kansas and into Oklahoma. Western portions of the county contain parts of the northern Cross Timbers eco-region, which separates the forested eastern portion of the United ...
The airport covers 1,227 acres (497 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 17/35 is 5,872 x 100 ft (1,790 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 4,000 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending September 19, 2005 the airport had 5,550 aircraft operations, average 15 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. 40 aircraft were then based at the airport: 85% single-engine, 10% multi-engine and 5% ...
The Coffeyville Carnegie Public Library Building, located at 415 W. Eighth in Coffeyville, Kansas, is a Carnegie library which was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] A library association organized in 1906 obtained a $25,000 Carnegie library grant in 1911.
The mission originally assigned to Coffeyville was the basic, or second-stage, training of aviation cadets. Hence the designation, Army Air Forces Basic Flying School, when it was activated on 17 June 1942. As of 1 January 1943 it was re-designated the Coffeyville Army Air Field, although the mission was unchanged. From 6 August 1943 until 31 ...
In 1907 Long-Bell built the first "skyscraper" in Kansas City, named the R.A. Long Building, for the company corporate headquarters. At 16 stories tall, costing a reported 14 million dollars. [9] [10] The building was bought in 1940 by City National Bank & Trust Company.
The refinery was built in 1906 by the National Refining Company, which was then the second largest oil company in the United States.Built on 75 acres (30 ha), the refinery processed 2,500 barrels per day (400 m 3 /d) of crude oil, compared to today's 108,000-barrel-per-day (17,200 m 3 /d) processing capacity.