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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...
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.
Module:Location map/data/USA Kansas is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Kansas. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The location of the state of Kansas in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the state of Kansas. Prehistory of Kansas; French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764 Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762; Spanish (though predominantly Francophone) district of Alta Luisiana, 1764–1803 Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800
U.S. Highway 24 (US-24) in the state of Kansas runs east–west across the northern half of the state for 435.95 miles (701.59 km). The route mostly connects rural communities across the High Plains of Kansas, while also later providing an Interstate alternate between Topeka, Lawrence, and Kansas City.
Outside of Tulsa (the largest city in the four-states area by far), the area has two primary television markets. The Joplin–Pittsburg market covers the region’s counties in Missouri; Ottawa County, Oklahoma (the only county in northeastern Oklahoma that is not designated as part of the Tulsa market); and most of those in southeastern Kansas (excluding Chautauqua and Montgomery counties ...
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His map included a comment in the region, "not a stick of timber". [7] In 1823, Major Stephen Long, a government surveyor and leader of the next official exploration expedition, produced a map labeling the area as the "Great American Desert." [8] In the report that accompanied the map, the party's geographer Edwin James wrote of the region: