Wichita ist mit 397.532 Einwohnern (Stand 2020) die größte Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Kansas.. Benannt ist Wichita nach dem hier ursprünglich ansässigen Indianervolk, den Wichita.Die Stadt geht zurück auf eine indianische Siedlung, die sich 1863 an dieser Stelle befand. 1870 wurde Wichita zu einer Eisenbahnstation, zu der Viehtransporte aus Texas gelangten.

Joyland Amusement Park was an amusement park in Wichita, Kansas, United States.It was in continuous operation for 55 years, from June 12, 1949 to 2004, closing permanently in 2006. It was once the largest theme park in central Kansas and featured a …

Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 156,607, making it one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

This article is a list of notable people who were born in and/or have lived in Wichita, Kansas.Alumni of universities within the city, including athletes and coaches, that are not originally from Wichita should not be included in this list, instead, they should be listed in the alumni list article for each university.

This list of museums in Kansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.Also included are non-profit and university art ...

Wichita State discontinued varsity football after the 1986 season. [17] The accident was the first of two college football charter aircraft to crash in 1970; six weeks later, Southern Airways Flight 932 , carrying the Marshall University team, crashed in Huntington, West Virginia as the team returned from a game in North Carolina.

The association's largest event is the Kansas State track and field championships, which are held the weekend before Memorial Day at Cessna Stadium on the campus of Wichita State University. The meet, which features athletes from schools in all six classes, is one of the nation's largest high school meet, with more than 3,300 athletes ...

Atchison is a city and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River.As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Atchison is also the home of Benedictine College

History 19th century. Pratt was founded in 1884 and named after Caleb S. Pratt, a young Civil War officer from the Kansas Infantry, who was killed in the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri The first post office in Pratt was established in June 1884.. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Herington to Pratt.

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer.Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader …