The Sunflower State
- State Site: Official Web Site of the State of Kansas
- Capital City:
- Fort Leavenworth, 1854. Shawnee Mission, 1854-1855. Pawnee, 1855. Lecompton, 1855-1861. Topeka, since 1861.
- Topeka
- Topeka Apartments
- Capitol: About the Capitol
- Abbreviations:
- Postal: KS
- Traditional: Kans. or Kan.
- Admission to Union:
- Ancestry / Genealogy:
- Apartments: Kansas Apartments
- Area:
- Area Codes: Kansas Area Codes
- Biographies: Notable Kansans
- Bird:
- Birth Records: Birth Certificates
- Border States:
- Citizens: Kansas Citizens
- Climate: Climatology For Kansas
- Constitution: Kansas Constitution, 34th state to enter the Union.
- County Profile: Kansas Counties
- Courts: Kansas Judicial Branch
- Current Events: Kansas News
- Death Records: Death Certificates
- Department of: Agency List
- Driving: Driver's License Information
- Economy:
- Agriculture: A leading farm state, Kansas' most important agricultural products
are beef cattle and wheat. Hogs are another leading livestock product. Other important crops grown in
Kansas are corn, soybeans, grain sorghum and hay. [Find out more]
- Manufacturing: Transportation equipment (light aircraft, military aircraft,
missiles, aircraft parts, railroad freight and passenger cars, locomotives) is Kansas' primary
manufactured product. Food processing (flour-milling, animal feed, meat-packing plants) is ranked second
in the state. Printed materials (newspapers, school yearbooks) are also produced in Kansas.
- Services: The leading service industries in Kansas are in the community, business and
personal services sector. Concentrated in Kansas' metropolitan areas, private health care, law firms,
data processing companies, hotels, repair shops and customer service call centers are important. Ranking
second in Kansas are the wholesale (farm product distribution, groceries, machinery, motor vehicles) and
retail (automobile dealerships, grocery stores, department stores, restaurants, service stations) trade
industries. Government services (public schools, hospitals, military activities) are the third ranking
services sector in Kansas.
- Mining: Almost every county in Kansas is involved in some kind of mineral
production. Petroleum and natural gas are the most important mined products in the state. Other
products are gypsum, helium, limestone and salt.
- Flag:
- Fishing:
- Flower:
- Genealogical Resources:
- Geographic Center: Kansas Geography
- Governor:
- Highest Point: Mount Sunflower, 4,039 feet above sea level.
- Highway Markers: Kansas
- History:
- Hunting:
- Judiciary: Kansas Judicial Branch
- Largest Cities: 10 Largest Cities
- Legislature: Kansas State Legislature
- Library: Kansas State Library
- License Plates: Kansas
- Lottery: Kansas Lottery
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- Lowest Point: Verdigris River, 679 feet above sea level.
- Maps: Kansas Maps
- Marriage: Marriage Certificates
- Media:
- Motor Vehicles: Division of Motor Vehicles
- Motto:
- Museums: Kansas Museums
- National Forests:
- National Parks: National Parks in Kansas
- Natural Resources: Kansas' most important natural resources are its very fertile soil and its
mineral deposits (Petroleum, natural gas, clays, gypsum, helium, natural gas liquids, salt, sand and gravel,
stone).
- Newspapers: Kansas
- Nickname: for Kansas
- Non-transients: Find A Grave
- Online Services: Online Services
- Origin of State's name: Kansas
- Political Cartoons: PoliticalCartoons.com
- Population:
- Representatives:
- Road Side America: Kansas
- Senior Citizens: Department on Aging
- Song: Home On the Range
- State Parks: Kansas State Parks
- State Quarter: Kansas
- Symbols: Kansas Symbols
- Tax Forms:
- Topography: State Topography Image: Kansas
- Travel:
- Tree: Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
- Unclaimed Funds: Unclaimed Property Division
- Veteran Affairs: Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs
- Vital Records: Office of Vital Statistics
- Weather:
- Web Cams: Kansas Webcams
- Zip Codes:
- Zoos:
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