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De Soto was platted in 1857 and named after Hernando de Soto (c. 1496/1497–1542), Spanish conquistador. [5] A post office has been in operation at De Soto since 1858. [6] The city is known as "Fountain City" because of its numerous artesian wells. Water from these wells and springs were bottled and shipped by tank car to the 1904 World Fair ...
The 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
De Soto Water Tower & Sunflower Mural (2020) The land that would become De Soto was part of a large territory extending to present-day St. Louis that was occupied by the Osage people, who were relocated from east of the Mississippi River in the upper Midwest.
Jefferson County is located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.It is a part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.As of the 2020 census, the population was 226,739, [1] making it the sixth-most populous county in Missouri.
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, entrance billboard and water towers, 2005. The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant was a smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing facility in De Soto within Johnson County, Kansas.
On April 1, 1865, under the command of Captain James Yore, the steamboat Bertrand struck a submerged log in the Desoto Bend of the Missouri River, about 25 miles (40 km) upstream of Omaha, Nebraska. In less than ten minutes, it sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water.
The building remained the DeSoto Spring Water Depot and DeSoto Dance Hall until 1936, when Mountain Valley Water Company made the building its national headquarters and visitors center. In 1966, the Schlafly's sold the company to a group of distributors under the leadership of James G. Scott.
Summer Set is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.It is in the southern part of the county, 3 miles (5 km) south of De Soto.