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The Plainsman (1936) and Wild Bill (1995), both of which dramatize the life and career of Wild Bill Hickok, are partially set in Hays during the late 1860s and early 1870s. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] Paper Moon (1973) is partially set in Great Depression -era Hays, and a portion of the film was shot in the city. [ 112 ]
Monument to Rome and co-founder, Buffalo Bill, located on Main Street, Hays. In 1867, William Rose, a railroad contractor, and William Cody founded the townsite to take advantage of the recent relocation of Fort Hays adjacent to the planned crossing of Big Creek by the Kansas Pacific Railway.
The 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
A Hays County neighborhood southwest of Austin is under a boil water notice after a mechanical failure potentially tainted water. Boil water notice issued for Hays County neighborhood amid ...
The U.S. Geologic Survey measured a zero cubic feet per second discharge from the well. The recommended flow rate is 4 to 7 cubic feet per second.
Isaac M. Yost, commonly I. M. Yost, or "Ike", was a miller and frontier industrialist who led the development of flour milling in the settlement of Hays City, Kansas.Even though he was the leading miller in Hays for decades, he was particularly remembered there for co-founding the short-lived United States Portland Cement Company and the associated townsite of Yocemento.
Ellis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Hays. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 28,934. [2] The county was named for George Ellis, a first lieutenant of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry. [1]
A Hays CISD school bus equipped with 3-point lap and shoulder seat belts is displayed outside a Hays Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting at the Historic Buda ...