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Gove County: 063: Gove City: 1868: From unorganized area: Grenville L. Gove, Captain in the 11th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War [8] GO 2,735: 1,072 sq mi (2,776 km 2) Graham County: 065: Hill City: 1867: From unorganized area: John L. Graham, Union captain and Civil War hero: GH 2,376: 898 sq mi (2,326 km 2) Grant County ...
Map of the United States with Kansas highlighted List of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Kansas , sorted by county. On the right is a clickable map of the counties in Kansas.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in northeastern Kansas, anchored by the city of Topeka. In total, it has an area of 3,290.15 square miles.
Ruaka is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya. The town is located north west of Nairobi, at the western end of the Northern Bypass along Limuru Road. Ruaka is part of the larger Nairobi Metropolitan Conurbation. The town formed part of the former Karuri Town Council local authority area. Two Rivers Mall, in Nairobi County, is close to Ruaka. [1] [2 ...
The Kansas City area is a confluence of four major U.S. interstate highways: I-29 – North to St. Joseph, Missouri; I-35 – North to Des Moines, Iowa and south to Wichita, Kansas; I-49 – South to Joplin; I-70 – East to St. Louis and west to Topeka, Kansas; Other interstates that cross through the area include:
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Indigenous tribes.