Everyone knows I'm from Kansas. I find it really hard not to meet someone new without getting the standard wizard of oz and dorothy jokes, not to mention "Have you seen a tornado?" So it is time to do some educating....
Kansas was the 34th state in the USA; it became a state on January 29, 1861.
State Abbreviation - KS
State Capital - Topeka
Largest City - Wichita
Area - 82,282 square miles [Kansas is the 15th biggest state in the USA]
Name for Residents - Kansans
Major Industries - agriculture (wheat and other grains), aircraft manufacturing, automobile manufacturing
Origin of the Name Kansas - Kansas was named for Konza (also called Kansa or Kaw) Indians who lived in the area.
State Nickname - Sunflower State
State Motto - "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties
State Song - Home on the Range
State Capital - Topeka
Largest City - Wichita
Area - 82,282 square miles [Kansas is the 15th biggest state in the USA]
Name for Residents - Kansans
Major Industries - agriculture (wheat and other grains), aircraft manufacturing, automobile manufacturing
Origin of the Name Kansas - Kansas was named for Konza (also called Kansa or Kaw) Indians who lived in the area.
State Nickname - Sunflower State
State Motto - "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties
State Song - Home on the Range
State Bird - Western Medowlark
State Animal - Buffalo
State Insect - The Honey Bee
Random Kansas Facts
- A ball of twine in Cawker City measures over 38' in circumference and weighs more than 16,750 pounds and is still growing.
- A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1/2 mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins.
- Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.
- At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas. <- absurd!
- Cedar Crest is the name of the governor's mansion in Topeka, the state capital.
- Fire Station No. 4 in Lawrence, originally a stone barn constructed in 1858, was a station site on the Underground Railroad.
- In 1990 Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 33 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves.
- The American Institute of Baking is located in Manhattan.
- The rocks at Rock City are huge sandstone concretions. In an area about the size of two football fields, 200 rocks, some as large as houses, dot the landscape. There is no other place in the world where there are so many concretions of such giant size.
- The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita.
- For more go to: http://www.50states.com/facts/kansas.htm
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