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From Salina to the Nebraska state line, the highway is named the Frank Carlson Memorial Highway, in honor of the late Senator Frank Carlson. Senator Carlson was a native of Concordia who represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1951 to 1969. Before serving in the Senate, he was Governor of Kansas from 1947 to 1950.
K-181 is a 70.2-mile-long (113.0 km) north–south state highway which runs through several counties in the north central part of the U.S. state of Kansas.K-181's southern terminus is at K-232 southeast of Lucas by Wilson Lake Dam, and the northern terminus is at U.S. Highway 36 (US-36) and US-281 south of Lebanon.
Concurrent with the Kansas Turnpike from the junction with I-335 in South Topeka to the junction with I-70, US-40 and K-4 in East Topeka. I-635: 8.9: 14.3 I-35 / US-69 in Overland Park: Missouri state line in Kansas City 1975: current I-670: 1.64: 2.64 I-70 / US-24 / US-40 / US-69 in Kansas City: Missouri state line in Kansas City 1968: current
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.
K-192 was first designated a state highway on January 4, 1939, by the State Highway Commission of Kansas, now known as KDOT. [ 1 ] [ 13 ] On August 12, 1964, the western terminus of K-192 was truncated 1.124 miles (1.809 km) when US-59 was moved onto a new alignment slightly east. [ 14 ]
In Kansas, the highway is a main north–south route that runs through the eastern end of the state from the Oklahoma border to Missouri border. Along the way US-169 intersects several major highways including US-400 by Cherryvale , US-54 by Iola , overlaps US-59 south of Garnett , overlaps I-35 from Olathe to Merriam , and in Kansas City ...
Blacksmiths at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway shops in Topeka, 1943. Being the state's capital city, Topeka's largest employer is the State of Kansas—employing about 8,400 people, [46] or 69% of the city's government workers. Altogether, government workers make up one out of every five employed persons in the city.
A description of the town from a 1912 volume of Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History is as follows: . Auburn, a money order post office of Shawnee county, is in the township of the same name, about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Topeka and 8 miles (13 km) west of Wakarusa, which is the nearest railroad station.