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20-02300. GNIS ID. 485541 [1] Website. arkcity.org. Arkansas City ( / ɑːrˈkænzəs /) is a city in Cowley County, Kansas, United States, [1] situated at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Walnut River in the southwestern part of the county. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 11,974.
Etzanoa is located in present-day Arkansas City, Kansas, near the Arkansas River. In 1601, Juan de Oñate visited the city of Etzanoa. Oñate and the other explorers who accompanied him called the city "the Great Settlement". Etzanoa may have been home to about 20,000 people at the time Oñate and his expedition found and explored the city.
The city, on the east bank of the Arkansas River, was officially incorporated in 1870. Among the signatories on the town charter was a lone woman, the town laundry operator, Catherine "The Widow" McCarty, whose elder teenage son, after leaving Wichita, would become the infamous gunman, Billy the Kid. 1915 railroad map of Sedgwick County
Originally named Allen Manufacturing Company, the business produced hexagonal set screws and wrenches to fasten them. The terms "Allen wrench" (American English) and "Allen key" (British English) [3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys". W.G. Allen [4] filed the first related patent in 1909 ...
Winfield. Built in 1892, the W. H. Coffin House is an example of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States popular from about 1880 to 1900. 6. Cowley County National Bank Building. Cowley County National Bank Building. August 11, 1983. ( #83000421) 820-822 Main St. 37°14′25″N 96°59′47″W.
At the time of the City of Kansas's incorporation, Missouri was still a slave state. However, the population was deeply divided over the issue of slavery.In 1854, the United States Congress passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which rejected the 1820 Missouri Compromise and allowed new territories to choose to allow slavery, whereas the Missouri Compromise had prohibited slavery in any new states ...
Author Hämäläinen postulated a Comanche proto-empire in the early 19th century with an important trading emporium in the Big Timbers, a cottonwood forest bordering the Arkansas from La Junta downstream to near the Kansas border. New Spain and Mexico. The Spanish settled in New Mexico called the Arkansas River in Colorado the Rio Napestle.
Cowley County, Kansas. / 37.233°N 96.833°W / 37.233; -96.833. Cowley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Winfield, [2] and its most populous city is Arkansas City. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 34,549. [1] The county was named after Matthew Cowley, first lieutenant in Company I ...