Which Kansas town made famous in many westerns is on the Smoky Hill river
"The city lies on the north side of the Smoky Hill River in the Flint Hills region of the Great Plains. Mud Creek, a tributary of the Smoky Hill, flows south through the city. Located in north-central Kansas at the intersection of Interstate 70 and K-15, Abilene is approximately east of Salina, Kansas, north of Wichita, and west of Kansas City. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Lying in the transition zone between North America's humid subtropical climate (Köppen ""Cfa"") and humid continental climate (Köppen ""Dfa"") zones,"
"Smoky Hill City, Kansas Smoky Hill City is an abandoned ghost town in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. It lies approximately southwest of Hays. The land was bought by Charles K. Holliday of Topeka, and a townsite plat was filed with the county in 1899. Holliday began selling town lots. Some of the first residents came from the town of Chetolah, just across the Smoky Hill River. Chetolah had been founded ten years earlier in the anticipation of a railroad connection that was never built. With the influential Hollidays backing the new town of Smoky Hill City, residents of Chetolah"
"Reclamation completed another dam on the river, this one for irrigation as well as flood control, in southeastern Trego County, Kansas creating Cedar Bluff Reservoir. Smoky Hill River The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas. The Smoky Hill gets its name from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows. American Indians living along the Smoky Hill considered it and the Kansas River to be the same river, and their names for it included Chetolah and Okesee-sebo. Early maps of"
"Smoky Hill City as a townsite was vacated by Ellis County in 1905, at the request of Charles Holliday. The settlement survived for several more years, but was eventually completely abandoned. The townsite occupied approximately in sections 3 and 10 of Township 15 South, Range 20 West of the 6th Principal Baseline and Meridian, , elevation above sea level. Smoky Hill City, Kansas Smoky Hill City is an abandoned ghost town in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. It lies approximately southwest of Hays. The land was bought by Charles K. Holliday of Topeka, and a townsite plat was filed with"
"streams converge roughly west of Russell Springs in Logan County, Kansas. From there, the river continues generally eastward through the Smoky Hills region. The Saline River joins the river in eastern Saline County. The Solomon River, joins the Smoky Hill in western Dickinson County. The Smoky Hill joins the Republican River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River. The Smoky Hill River directly drains an area of . The combined Smoky Hill-Saline Basin drains . The entire Smoky Hill drainage basin covers approximately , including most of north-central and northwestern Kansas. Via the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the"
"Smoky Hill River The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas. The Smoky Hill gets its name from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows. American Indians living along the Smoky Hill considered it and the Kansas River to be the same river, and their names for it included Chetolah and Okesee-sebo. Early maps of European explorers called the river (also in combination with the Kansas River) the River of the Padoucas as its source is located in what was"
"through Swanson Reservoir and Harlan County Reservoir before curving southward into the Smoky Hills region of Kansas. The Republican River joins the Smoky Hill River at Junction City, Kansas to form the Kansas River. Some cities along the river are McCook, Nebraska, Clay Center, Kansas, Concordia, Kansas and Junction City, Kansas. Near Concordia is the Republican River Pegram Truss, a bridge that goes over the Republican River that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The river was named after a branch of Pawnee Indians known as ""the Republicans."" As early as 1785, the Spanish and French had"
"a path westward for American settlers before being gradually superseded by the Kansas Pacific Railway. Smoky Hill Trail The Smoky Hill Trail was an American trail across the central Great Plains of North America in use from 1855 to 1870. Established in what was then Kansas Territory, it extended west from Atchison, Kansas on the Missouri River to Denver, spanning the length of what is today Kansas and the eastern portion of Colorado. The trail was named after the Smoky Hill River whose course it paralleled for much of its length. Used by prospectors as the most direct route west"
"that became known as ""The Battle of the Saline River."" The Saline River flooded periodically during the late 19th century with particularly destructive floods occurring in 1858, 1867, and 1903. In 1964, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the river in eastern Russell County for flood control, creating Wilson Lake. Saline River (Kansas) The Saline River is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas in the northwest part of the state. The river takes its name from the"
"was closed through school unification. Among its notable historical residents was Joseph Norman Dolley, the Kansas banking commissioner who promoted the nation's first state blue sky law, which Kansas passed in 1911. Maple Hill, Kansas Maple Hill is a city in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 620. Maple Hill was founded about 1882. It was named from a grove of maple trees groving upon an elevation. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Topeka through Maple Hill to Herington. Three fires erupted in Maple Hill"
"Smoky Hill Trail The Smoky Hill Trail was an American trail across the central Great Plains of North America in use from 1855 to 1870. Established in what was then Kansas Territory, it extended west from Atchison, Kansas on the Missouri River to Denver, spanning the length of what is today Kansas and the eastern portion of Colorado. The trail was named after the Smoky Hill River whose course it paralleled for much of its length. Used by prospectors as the most direct route west to the Colorado gold fields during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, it later served as"
"by American explorer Zebulon Pike during his 1806 expedition to visit the Pawnee. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established Kansas Territory, which included the entire length of the Smoky Hill River. With the onset of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858, an ancient American Indian trail along the river known as the Smoky Hill Trail provided the shortest, fastest route west across Kansas. Beginning in 1865, the trail served as the route for the short-lived Butterfield Overland Despatch. To protect travelers, the U.S. Army established several forts along the trail, including Fort Downer, Fort Harker, Fort Hays, Fort Monument,"
"Maple Hill, Kansas Maple Hill is a city in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 620. Maple Hill was founded about 1882. It was named from a grove of maple trees groving upon an elevation. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Topeka through Maple Hill to Herington. Three fires erupted in Maple Hill between 1900 and 1901. The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as"
"and Fort Wallace. Before American colonization, the land along the Smoky Hill River was favored hunting ground for the Plains Indians. In 1867, the Comanche and the Kiowa, and in 1868, the Sioux and the Arapaho signed treaties withdrawing their opposition to the construction of a railroad along the Smoky Hill River. The Kansas Pacific Railway was completed in 1870, rendering the Smoky Hill Trail obsolete. In 1948, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished construction of a dam on the Smoky Hill for flood control in southeastern Ellsworth County creating Kanopolis Lake. In 1951, the United States Bureau of"
"Smoky Hill. In the 1890s, prospectors imagined that they found zinc in the shale of Ellis and adjacent Trego County, and then believed that they found gold. The delusion was abetted by unscrupulous assayers, and by swindlers selling secret metallurgical processes to extract gold from the shale. Vigorously warning against the gold delusion was Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth, even though the influential promoters threatened to have him fired for his opposition. The Ellis County gold boom sputtered along from 1895 to 1903, by which time (almost) everyone realized that there was no gold in the shale. The designation of"
"Marquette, Kansas Marquette is a city located in McPherson County, Kansas, United States, between K-4 and the Smoky Hill River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 641. For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, McPherson County was founded. In 1873, what eventually would become Marquette began on the banks of the Smoky Hill River with"
"Junction City, Kansas Junction City is a city in and the county seat of Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,353. Fort Riley, a major U.S. Army post, is nearby. Junction City is so named from its position at the confluence of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers. In 1854, Andrew J. Mead of New York of the Cincinnati-Manhattan Company, Free Staters connected to the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company planned a community there called Manhattan (there was also a discussion to call it New Cincinnati). When the steamship ""Hartford"" delivering the immigrants"
"Big Creek (Kansas) Big Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America. It is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River, and the entirety of its length lies in the U.S. state of Kansas. Big Creek originates in the High Plains of northwestern Kansas. Its source lies in extreme northwestern Gove County. From there, it flows generally east-southeast through the Smoky Hills to its confluence with the Smoky Hill River in southwestern Russell County. In Ellis County, Kansas, Big Creek flows through the cities of Ellis and Hays. In Ellis, it is dammed to maintain a"
"Bunker Hill is the setting and namesake of the 2008 film ""Bunker Hill"". Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Bunker Hill include: Bunker Hill, Kansas Bunker Hill is a city in Russell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 95. J. B. Corbett and Valentine Harbaugh, leaders of a colony from Ohio, founded Bunker Hill at a site on the Kansas Pacific Railway in the summer of 1871. The settlement received its name from a Butterfield Overland Despatch station, built in 1865, that had preceded it on the"
"closed due to poor funding from the school district. Marquette, Kansas Marquette is a city located in McPherson County, Kansas, United States, between K-4 and the Smoky Hill River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 641. For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, McPherson County was founded. In 1873, what eventually would become Marquette began"
"Oak Hill, Kansas Oak Hill is a city in Clay County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 24. Oak Hill was laid out in 1872. A post office was opened in 1871 in Oak Hill (also historically spelled Oakhill), and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1995. In 1887, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a branch line from Neva (3 miles west of Strong City) through Oak Hill to Superior, Nebraska. In 1996, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway merged with Burlington Northern Railroad and renamed to the current"
"gold. In 1899 his son Charles K. Holliday founded Smoky Hill City, Kansas near the supposed mineral deposits. Once Topeka was founded, it needed transportation to connect it to the rest of the country. Holliday's legal skills were called on again to create the paperwork for a new railroad. In 1859 he singlehandedly wrote the charter for the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company, which would connect the two cities by rail following the route of the Santa Fe Trail. Kansas Territory governor Samuel Medary approved the charter on February 11, 1859. Holliday was named a director and president of the"
"Homer, Kansas Homer (also known as ""Homer Station"") is an unincorporated area in Russell County, Kansas, United States. It lies on the border between Grant and Russell Townships. There is no community or settlement at Homer. Homer was once a stop on the Union Pacific Railroad. A rural post office operated at the site from 1879 to 1887. Homer is located at (38.8694558, -98.7975811) at an elevation of 1,867 feet (569 m). It lies approximately north of the Smoky Hill River and south of the Saline River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. Homer is on U.S."
"Smoky Township, Sherman County, Kansas Smoky Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States. The population was 87 at the 2000 census. Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships: It lies south of the county seat of Goodland. There are no communities in the township. The north fork of the Smoky Hill River flows through Smoky Township. The Sherman Wildlife Area, with areas devoted to hunting and camping, is centered on a lake in the western part of the township, where the river is dammed. K-27, a north-south highway,"
"portions of Nebraska and Kansas along the Missouri River Valley, particularly near the Nebraska cities of Brownville, Rulo, Plattsmouth, Fort Calhoun, and Ponca, rising no more than above the Missouri River bottoms. The majority of these hills stretch along the east side of the river, from Westfield, Iowa in the north to Mound City, Missouri in the south. Channeling and levee construction have altered how floods affect the Missouri River Valley. Several large floods have affected the valley since Europeans first came into the area. The first recorded event is the Great Flood of 1844, which crested in Kansas City"
"widest points being between Wamego and Rossville, where it is up to wide, then narrowing to or less in places below Eudora and De Soto. Much of the river's watershed is dammed for flood control, but the Kansas River is generally free-flowing and has only minor obstructions, including diversion weirs and one low-impact hydroelectric dam. Beginning at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, just east of aptly named Junction City (), the Kansas River flows some generally eastward to join the Missouri River at Kaw Point () in Kansas City. Dropping on its journey seaward, the water"
"deserted to the new town. Charles Holliday was the son of railroad magnate Cyrus K. Holliday. Both father and son believed that the area contained valuable mineral deposits. The town was situated on the north bank of the Smoky Hill River to serve the gold mines that Charles Holliday imagined would spring up to mine the supposed gold-bearing shale along the Smoky Hill River valley. The idea that the shales of along the Smoky Hill River contained valuable minerals started in the mid-19th century as a swindle by Native Americans who said that they knew of tin mines along the"
"Saline River (Kansas) The Saline River is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas in the northwest part of the state. The river takes its name from the French translation of its Native name Ne Miskua, referring to its salty content. The Saline River originates in the High Plains of northwestern Kansas. The south fork of the river rises near the Sherman County-Thomas County line while its north fork rises in central Thomas County. The confluence of the two"
"Topeka, Kansas television market. In Sidney Sheldon's New York Times bestseller ""Windmills of the Gods"", the heroine of the novel is from Junction City. In both the stage and film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the character of Hedwig moves to Junction City after leaving East Germany. Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Junction City include U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., inventor Amanda Jones, Kevin Willmott, and Bobby Lashley. Junction City, Kansas Junction City is a city in and the county seat of Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the"
"the river include , Riviere de Soucis, Solomons Creek, Wiskapalla River, and Solomons Fork. The Solomon River is formed by the confluence of the North Fork Solomon River and South Fork Solomon River at Waconda Lake in northwestern Mitchell County, Kansas. Both forks originate in the High Plains of northwestern Kansas. From Waconda Lake, the Solomon flows southeast for through the Smoky Hills region and joins the Smoky Hill River immediately south of Solomon, Kansas in western Dickinson County. The Solomon River drainage basin covers an area of 6,835 square miles (17,703 km). Via the Smoky Hill, Kansas, and Missouri"
"Strawberry Hill (Kansas City, Kansas) Strawberry Hill is a Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. It is now a mainly South Slavic community. Strawberry Hill was previously known as Splitlog Hill, after Mathias Splitlog, a wealthy Indian mill owner who purchased the area and built a mansion on it in 1870. He later sold parcels to the Catholic church and to railroad interests. After the area was subdivided, the new Strawberry Hill neighborhood was established in the late 19th century. Immigrants from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Russia found a home"
"about life along the Kansas River in the late 1800s, and the trials that the fishermen on the river faced. Kansas River The Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its two names both come from the Kanza (Kaw) people who once inhabited the area; ""Kansas"" was one of the anglicizations of the French transcription ""Cansez"" () of the original ""kką:ze"". The city of Kansas City, Missouri,"
"the beds of the Niobrara Chalk exposed in Fort Hays Limestone bluffs of the western Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill, and Republican Rivers, and in an irregular belt of Smoky Hill Chalk bluffs further west. This area includes such Kansas landmarks as Castle Rock and Monument Rocks in Gove County. The chalk beds are known for the late 19th and early 20th century excavations of exceptionally well-preserved fossils of marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs found in the uppermost member of the Niobrara Chalk, the Smoky Hill Chalk. Smoky Hills The Smoky Hills are an upland region of hills"