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Great Bend Township covers an area of 40.46 square miles (100 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Great Bend (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Golden Belt Memorial Park and Great Bend. The stream of Dry Walnut Creek runs through this township.
The Great Bend Tribune is the city's daily newspaper with a circulation of over 6,200 copies. [55] The Interrobang was the student newspaper at the Great Bend-based Barton Community College. Great Bend is a center of broadcast media for central Kansas. [56] [57] Two AM and ten FM radio stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city. [56]
A humane society is a group that aims to stop cruelty to animals.In many countries, the term is used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA). In the United Kingdom, and historically in the United States, such societies provide waterway rescue, prevention and recovery services, or may give awards for saving human life (e.g., Glasgow Humane Society and Massachusetts ...
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The Great Bend Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Barton County. As of the 2000 census, [17] there were 28,205 people, 11,393 households, and 7,530 families residing in the county. The population density was 32 people per square mile (12 people/km 2). There were 12,888 housing units at an average density of 14 per square mile (5.4/km 2).
Along Walnut Creek above its confluence with the Arkansas River, east of Great Bend [6 38°21′28″N 98°42′07″W / 38.3578°N 98.7019°W / 38.3578; -98.7019 ( Walnut Creek Great Bend Township
The Great Bend Aspect is the region occupied by the Wichita people from 1475 to 1700 [1] in modern day Kansas. The Great bend aspect consists of habitation sites in what are now known as McPherson, Butler, Rice, Marion, Cowley, and Wilson counties. [1] In addition to this, there were several village clusters throughout the great bend aspect.
The Barton County Courthouse, located at 1400 Main Street in Great Bend, is the seat of government of Barton County, Kansas. Great Bend has been the county seat since 1867. The courthouse was built from 1917 to 1918 by contractors Manhattan Construction Company of Muskogee, Oklahoma.