The Kansas Capitol in Topeka is one of the most beautiful capitols in the country.
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Visit Kansas'
Counties
Genealogy (The KSGenWeb Project)
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Doing & Seeing
I don't do more now
But I do see more.
Things I didn't need to see,
Enrich me now,
And make me wonder why
I couldn't see them before.
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By John Reid Howell, Fall 2010
See other Kansas poems at kotn.org/poetry
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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:
Laura Kelly
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Motto: Ad Astra per Aspera (To the stars through difficulties)
Kansas Symbols
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Amphibian
Barred
Tiger
Salamander
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Animal
American
Buffalo |
Bird
Western
Meadowlark |
Flower
Wild
Native
Sunflower |
Fossils
Tylosaurus
and
Pteranodon |
Grass
Little
Bluestem |
Insect
Honeybee |
Reptile
Ornate
Box
Turtle |
Soil
Harney
Silt
Loam |
Song
Home
on the
Range |
Tree
Cotton-
wood |
For details about our Kansas symbols, visit State Symbols USA's Kansas.
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