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The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri, the southeastern third of Kansas, most of central Oklahoma, and extending into north-central Texas, is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas. It grades into savanna and woodland to the east and south, and into shorter, mixed-grass prairie to the west. The Osage Plains ...
Konza Prairie Preserve, a tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills A walking trail in the Konza Prairie shows the height of the grasses in the fall. 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.
Konza Prairie. 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 ...
Sumner County is part of the Wichita, KS Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the census [11] of 2000, there were 25,946 people, 9,888 households, and 7,089 families residing in the county. The population density was 22 people per square mile (8.5 people/km 2). There were 10,877 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile (3.5/km 2).
Website. brcoks.org. Brown County is a county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. [1] The county was named after Albert G. Brown, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and Kansas statehood advocate.
Pretty Prairie was laid out in 1889. It was named from its scenic setting upon the prairie. [ 5 ] It was incorporated as a city in 1907. [ 6 ] The city's sole source of water is a single well, a 100-foot-deep borehole. Due to agricultural pollution from the region's groundwater, the well water has had nitrate levels in excess of the federal ...
Designated as Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands by the World Wildlife Fund. The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and ...
Module:Location map/data/CAN AB Grande Prairie is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of County of Grande Prairie. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.