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Explorer Zebulon Pike first coined the name the Flint Hills in 1806 when he entered into his journal, "passed very ruff flint hills". The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone. The largest town in the area is Manhattan, Kansas, and the hills can be accessed from the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, which passes through the region.
Just inside the city, the two highways split and K-177 heads north. K-177 soon ends at a junction with US-24. [12] [13] Flint Hills Scenic Byway is a portion of K-177 located in the Flint Hills region of the state, stretching from Interstate 35 at Cassoday north to US-56 at Council Grove.
In 1870, Bazaar Township, Chase County, Kansas which includes Matfield Green had a population of 376, growing to 1,096 by 1880. [8] In its heyday, at the beginning of the 20th century, Matfield Green grew to about 350 residents and possessed a bank, grocery store, livery and blacksmith, hardware, flour mill and lumberyard, and even a hotel for ...
The Konza Prairie Biological Station is a 8,616-acre (3,487 ha) protected area of native tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of northeastern Kansas. "Konza" is an alternative name for the Kansa or Kaw Indians who inhabited this area until the mid-19th century. [1] The Konza Prairie is owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University.
White City was founded in 1871 by a colony from Chicago. [5] It was named for F.C. White, superintendent of the Neosho division of the M-K-T Railroad , which was built on the land in 1868, prior to the existence of the community. [ 6 ]
Strong City is located at (38.3972360, -96.5369507), [1] in the scenic Flint Hills of the Great Plains According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km 2 ), all land. [ 16 ]
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Clements, circa 1880-1900. In 1802, Spain returned most of the land to France. In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km 2) Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre.
Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railway: SLSF: 1885 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City Connecting Railroad: KCC 1914 1983 N/A Kansas City Connecting Railway: 1915 Kansas City Connecting Railroad: Kansas City and Emporia Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1885 Southern Kansas Railway: Kansas City, Emporia and Southern Railroad: ATSF ...