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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]
The warehouse served a region extending from Topeka, Kansas in the west to St. Joseph, Missouri in the north, Columbia, Missouri in the east to Joplin, Missouri in the south. [ 2 ] The 84,000-square-foot (7,800 m 2 ) four-story building is approximately 100 feet (30 m) by 140 feet (43 m).
The El Dorado/Captain Jack Thomas Memorial Airport was named after Captain Wilbur Jackson Thomas, a local hero and World War II ace fighter pilot. Thomas flew with the United States Marine Corp VMF-213 Hellhawks from 1943 to 1947. The City of El Dorado, Kansas claims Thomas as its most famous hometown war hero.
Then sometime between June 26, 1957 and 1964 it was extended along K-196 through El Dorado to its current eastern terminus. [ 1 ] [ 13 ] In an August 12, 1959 resolution the section in Sedgwick County was established as a state highway because Sedgwick County had finished bringing it up to state highway standards. [ 14 ]
124 W. Central Ave. [1] El Dorado, Kansas, 67042 ... El Dorado USD 490 is a public unified school district headquartered in El Dorado, Kansas, United States. [1]
The Butler County Courthouse is a public courthouse constructed in 1909, [2] in El Dorado, Kansas. It was designed by George P. Washburn & Sons to serve as the main county courthouse for Butler County .
El Dorado Township covers an area of 54.74 square miles (141.8 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, El Dorado (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Belle Vista, Sunset Lawns and Walnut Valley Memorial Park. The streams of Constant Creek, Sutton Creek and West Branch Walnut River run through this ...
The El Dorado Missouri Pacific Depot is a former passenger train station in El Dorado, Kansas, United States. It is a one-story, red-brick structure with a red-tile roof and wide, overhanging eaves designed by E. M. Tucker , Chief Engineer of the Missouri Pacific, in the Mission architectural style .