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St. John County was established in 1871, and formed from the area to the east of range 38 in what was then part of Wallace County. In 1885, the name was changed to Logan County. [28] Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873, and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was ...
The Cottonwood Ranch is a historic site near Studley in Valley Township, Sheridan County, Kansas, United States. [2] The ranch is now preserved as a Kansas State Historic Site. The ranch was built by Abraham Pratt, an Englishman who first came to the United States during the years of the Colorado Gold Rush. After returning to England, he ...
Calling the cottonwood tree "the pioneer of the prairie", the Kansas state legislature designated the cottonwood the official state tree of Kansas in 1937. [19] It became the state tree of Wyoming in 1947, [ 20 ] and that of Nebraska since 1972.
Cottonwood Falls is the largest city and county seat of Chase County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 851. [ 4 ] It is located south of Strong City along the south side of the Cottonwood River .
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Hanover, Kansas along Kansas Highway 243. The station consists of a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rectangular Cottonwood frame building, with a gabled roof, wooden shingled exterior, and stone foundation. The building is organized into six rooms, four of which served as the ...
Strong City is a city in Chase County, Kansas, United States. [1] Originally known as Cottonwood Station, in 1881 it was renamed Strong City after William Barstow Strong, then vice-president and general manager, and later president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. [5] [6] [7] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was ...
Chase County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Cottonwood Falls. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 2,572. [1] The county was named for Salmon Chase, a U.S. Senator from Ohio that was a Kansas statehood advocate.