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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.
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]
Great Bend is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, 39 miles (63 km) north of Scranton. According to 2020 Census data, Great Bend's population was 634, down 13.6% from 2010. [ 3 ]
It was renamed to Great Bend Township on November 28, 1814. [4] The present name comes from a meander in the Susquehanna River. [5] Great Bend Borough was incorporated from part of Great Bend Township in 1861 and Hallstead Borough was similarly formed in 1874. [4] The Presidential Motorcade passed through Great Bend on August 23, 2013.
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).
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.
Across the river to the northwest is Fort Drum in the town of Le Ray, and across it to the northeast is the village of Deferiet in the town of Wilna. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Great Bend CDP has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15.1 km 2 ), of which 5.8 square miles (15.0 km 2 ) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ...
The RM of Great Bend No. 405 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 12, 1910. [2] It was originally formed as Local Improvement District (LID) No. 405 on June 4, 1910 through the amalgamation of LIDs 20-E-3 (originally established June 5, 1905), 20-D-3 (originally established August 13, 1906), and 21-D-3 (originally established November 14, 1906).