The Kansas Capitol in Topeka is one of the most beautiful capitols in the country.
|
|
Visit Kansas'
Colleges
Kansas Links
Kansas Poetry
"Nothing in the Paper"
by Albert Stroud
Verdigris Valley Verse
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
|
|
|
34th state: January 29, 1861
Area: 82,264 square miles
Population: (1900) 1,470,495 · (1990) 2,447,574 · (2000) 2,688,418 · (2010) 2,853,118
State Capital: Topeka
Governor: Sam Brownback
|
Motto: Ad Astra per Aspera (To the stars through difficulties)
Kansas Symbols
|
Amphibian
Barred
Tiger
Salamander
|
Animal
American
Buffalo |
Bird
Western
Meadowlark |
Flower
Wild
Native
Sunflower |
Grass
Little
Bluestem |
Insect
Honeybee |
Reptile
Ornate
Box
Turtle |
Soil
Harney
Silt
Loam |
Song
Home
on the
Range |
Tree
Cotton-
wood |
Fossils
Tylosaurus
and
Pteranodon |
|
