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Putnam, Kansas. / 37.96889°N 97.38778°W / 37.96889; -97.38778. Putnam is an unincorporated community in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located southwest of Newton at the intersection of West Road and SW 60th Street, along the BNSF Railway .
The Frankfort Wildcats won the Kansas State High School boys basketball class 2A championship in 1973 and the class 1A DII championship in 2012. [22] Frankfort football teams have brought home state titles in 1983 in Class 1A, as well as 1996 in Class 2-1A. Both teams were coached by Larry Schroeder, a member of the KSHSAA Hall of Fame.
The Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of Kansas. Originally planned as a line from Atchison west into Colorado, and given federal land grants by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 as one of the branches of the Union Pacific Railroad, it was left with a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas, when the Union Pacific ...
Blue Rapids is located in northeast Kansas near the junction of the Little Blue and Big Blue rivers. Located on highway US-77/K-9, Blue Rapids is 5 miles (8.0 km) east of its sister town Waterville, 12 miles (19 km) south of the county seat Marysville, 13 miles (21 km) west of Frankfort, and 46 miles (74 km) north of the large university town of Manhattan.
History. Prior to 1926, the portion of future US-36 between Norton and the Missouri state line was known as the Rock Island Highway. [2] The US-36 designation first appeared on Kansas maps in 1932. [3] Since then, the highway has been straightened and parts of it upgraded to freeway or super two status. Originally US-36 overlapped K-63 for a ...
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
Interstate 135 (I-135) is an approximately 95.7-mile-long (154.0 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in central and south-central Kansas, United States.I-135, which is signed as north–south, runs between I-35 and the Kansas Turnpike in Wichita north to I-70, U.S. Highway 40 (US-40), and US-81 in Salina.
Kansas (southern Kansas not including the Wichita Metropolitan Area) February 3, 2001: split of 316; 621: Texas (Houston). Approved to overlay 281, 346, 713, and 832: January 3, 2025 [3] 622: Canadian non-geographic March 23, 2015: Overlaid by 633 on May 15th 2023; 623: Arizona (Phoenix metropolitan area; primarily the West Valley) March 1, 1999