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  2. El Dorado, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. [11] The original branch line connected Florence, Burns, De Graff, El Dorado, Augusta, Douglass, Rock, Akron, Winfield, and Arkansas City. In 1915, the El Dorado Oil Field was the first oil field that was found using science/geologic mapping, and part of the Mid-Continent oil province ...

  3. Butler County Courthouse (Kansas) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. K-254 (Kansas highway) - Wikipedia

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    The second highest was 15800 vehicles per day at the end of the freeway section in El Dorado. [8] The entire length of K-254 is included in the National Highway System . [ 9 ] The National Highway System is a system of highways important to the nation's defense, economy, and mobility. [ 10 ]

  5. U.S. Route 54 in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    El Dorado: US-77 north (N. Main Street) / K-254 west (W. Central Avenue) Eastern end of US-77 overlap; eastern terminus of K-254 K-177 north: Southern terminus of K-177: Greenwood K-99 south: Western end of K-99 overlap K-99 north: Eastern end of K-99 overlap: Woodson K-105 south – Toronto: Yates Center: US-75: Allen US-169 – Garnett ...

  6. El Dorado Township, Butler County, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. K-196 (Kansas highway) - Wikipedia

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    K-196 is a 28.474-mile-long (45.824 km) east–west state highway in Harvey and Butler Counties in the U.S. state of Kansas.K-196's western terminus is at Interstate 135 (I-135), U.S. Route 81 (US-81) and K-15 just south of Newton and the eastern terminus is at K-254 just east of El Dorado, Kansas.

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Forging Connections. A one-time New York City hotelier who began renting out rooms to prisoners in 1989, Slattery has established a dominant perch in the juvenile corrections business through an astute cultivation of political connections and a crafty gaming of the private contracting system.

  9. Butler County, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    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. [6] The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. [7]