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Osage County is served by a weekly newspaper, The Osage County Herald-Chronicle. The newspaper has a circulation of approximately 4,500, making it the 3rd largest paid weekly publication in the state of Kansas. The Herald-Chronicle was created by the merger of The Osage County Herald and The Osage County Chronicle in February 2007.
Osage City was surveyed and platted in late 1869, after the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had been fixed, but before it had been built to the city. Osage City was incorporated as a city in April 1872. [6] Like Osage County, the city was named for the Osage Nation. [7] Osage City was a very busy coal mining town in the 19th ...
Location of Osage County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Osage County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
Maurice Mehl (1887–1966), paleontologist, was born in Burlingame, Kansas; Victor Murdock (1871–1945), U.S. Representative from Kansas, Progressive Party presidential nominee, 1916. Carla Provost (b. 1970), chief of the Border Patrol; Kenny Starr (b. 1952), Country and Western singer
The 1978 Whippoorwill tornado, also known as the Whippoorwill Disaster was a deadly tornado that struck Osage County, Kansas on June 17, 1978. The tornado, which was on the ground for 8 miles (13 km), struck a tourist boat called the Whippoorwill, causing it to capsize and drowning 16 out of the 58 passengers and crew. [2]
Melvern is a city in Osage County, Kansas, United States, [1] along the Marais des Cygnes River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 356. [3] History
69 Osage County. 70 Osborne County. 71 Ottawa County. 72 Pawnee County. ... Kansas license plate county codes This page was last edited on 2 March 2024, at 05:12 ...
As it neared Interstate 35 and crossed into Noble County, the tornado first reached F4 intensity, flattening a house and debarking many trees. In neighboring Osage County, two farms were destroyed before the tornado continued into Osage County. There, it passed west of Pawhuska, toppling an oil rig with an 18-inch (460 mm) foundation.