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Cawker City is a city in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 457. [ 3 ] The city is located along the north shore of Waconda Lake and Glen Elder State Park .
Largest community-rolled ball of twine, located in Cawker City, Kansas (2013) There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States. As of 2014 [update] , the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas , measured at 8.06 feet (2.46 m) in diameter and 10.83 feet (3 ...
The Old Cawker City Library at 7th and Lake Sts. in Cawker City, Kansas, United States, was built in 1885. It is a public library which also serves as the headquarters of the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Waconda USD 272 is a public unified school district headquartered in Cawker City, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Cawker City, Downs, Glen Elder, Tipton, and nearby rural areas. [2]
In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, Mitchell County was established.
Berry formed the first temperance society in Cawker. [1] On April 14, 1887, she became the president of the sixth district of the Kansas WCTU. On February 28, 1889, she was elected to the office of treasurer of the Kansas WCTU, and her yearly re-election proved her faithfulness. [4] Berry held a WCTU district convention in Lincoln, Kansas ...
Cawker City – Home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine [6] Dodge City. Queen of the Cowtowns [7] The Wickedest Little City in America [8] Emporia – Front Porch of the Flint Hills [9] Garden City – Cutting Horse Capital [10] Girard – Printing Capital of the Nation [11] Haysville – Peach Capital of Kansas [4] Jennings – Czech Us Out ...
Waconda Spring, or Great Spirit Spring, [1] was a natural artesian spring located in Mitchell County, near the communities of Glen Elder and Cawker City in the U.S. state of Kansas. It was a sacred site for Native American tribes of the Great Plains and, for a time, became the site of a health spa for American settlers.