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Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located along the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains in North Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,111. [4] [5] Concordia is home of the Cloud County Community College and the Nazareth ...
He lived south of Concordia. The following is a list of people from Cloud County , Kansas . Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people past and present who have lived in the county, either in cities or rural areas.
Frank Carlson was the 30th Governor of Kansas. He called Concordia his home, and the Frank Carlson Library is named in his honor. See List of people from Cloud County, Kansas. Charles H. Blosser was an aviator who was awarded the Kansas Governor's Aviation Honors Award and was inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990. At one time ...
A list of people who were born in, or strongly associated with, Concordia, Kansas. Subcategories. ... This page was last edited on 9 March 2024, at 16:58 (UTC).
The community is served by Concordia USD 333 public school district. In 1911, local residents of Jamestown transferred some property to School District 32 to create the Jamestown Schools. Kansas public schools underwent reorganization and in 1962, the "old" school district 32 entered a Quit Claim Deed and transferred the property to Unified ...
The Concordia Blade-Empire has a rich history of newspaper publication in the county. The paper today has its roots in two separate newspapers. (Several sources, including Janet Pease Emerey's book on the history of Concordia claim a third newspaper, The Republican, merged and/or was purchased by The Republican Valley Empire).
It was moved to Rochester (now defunct) in 1866. The county was renamed Cloud County in 1867 with the county seat set at Concordia in 1870. The first courthouse was a three-story brick structure with an imposing central cupola, which was later removed. It was constructed by John S. Huntley and designed by W. R. Parson & Sons.
In 1884, the Rev. Joseph Perrier invited the Sisters of St. Joseph to come to Concordia to open a school in the Catholic Parish. Mother Stanislaus Leary, superior, and five sisters answered the invitation. They came to Concordia and established the Nazareth Motherhouse and Academy in a new building located next to the church.