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The city was actually known as Short Creek when first established because of a nearby creek and was known as Bonanza briefly before taking the present name of Galena in 1877, which is named after the lead ore galena found in the area. [6] [7] The city was part of the tri state mining area and had over 30,000 inhabitants. The population ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Kansas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Rep. Jim Minnix, a Scott City farmer and Republican chair of the House Water Committee, said he’s hoping to use current momentum to make up for decades of lost time before the Aquifer gets so ...
To incorporate, a city must generally have either 300 inhabitants or 300 or more platted lots served by water and sewer lines. This minimum requirement has increased since older historical minimum requirements. Cities of the 2nd Class - A city may petition to become a city of the 2nd class when its population is more than 2,000 but less than ...
A proposed change to how the federal government calculates interest on the state's water storage contracts at Milford Lake and Perry Lake, seen here, could save Kansas taxpayers more than $41 million.
Get the Galena, KS local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Galena is a city and the county seat in Stone County, Missouri, United States. The population was 455 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Galena is part of the Branson, Missouri Micropolitan Statistical Area .
In 1803, United States acquired from France the 828,000-square mile Louisiana Purchase, the former French lands west of the Mississippi River, for 2.83 cents per acre.This territory included most of the land for modern-day Kansas.