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Kansas State Symbols, Songs, and Emblems
For the latest symbols information, visit the NETSTATE CHRONICLE.
| Designation | Symbol / Emblem | Adopted |
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Sources...Great Plains Nature Center, Kansas Symbols, <http://www.gpnc.org/kansas1.htm> (Accessed January 27, 2010)
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| Great seal | Find out more... | 1861 | ||||
| Flower | Wild Native Sunflower (Helianthus) | 1903 | ||||
| Floral emblem | Wild Native Sunflower (Helianthus) | 1903 | ||||
| Flag | Find out more... | 1927 | ||||
| March | "The Kansas March," original music by Duff E. Middleton | 1935 | ||||
| Bird | Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta Audubon) | 1937 | ||||
| Tree | Cottonwood | 1937 | ||||
| Song | "Home On the Range," as originally written, with words by Dr. Brewster Higley and music by Dan Kelly | 1947 | ||||
| Animal | American Buffalo (Bison bison) | 1955 | ||||
| Insect | Honeybee (Apis mellifera) | 1976 | ||||
| Reptile | Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) | 1986 | ||||
| Soil | Harney Silt Loam |
1990 | ||||
| March | "Here's Kansas," words and music by Bill Post | 1992 | ||||
| Amphibian | Barred Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium Baird, 1850) | 1994 | ||||
| Firefighter's museum | Kansas Firefighter's Museum | 2007 | ||||
| Language | English | 2007 | ||||
| Grass | Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)) Effective July 1, 2010 |
2010 | ||||
| Flying fossil | Pteranodon | 2014 | ||||
| Marine fossil | Tylosaurus | 2014 | ||||
Making laws in Kansas
The Kansas Legislature, provides a series of documents under the titles of Helpful Hints & Education, including How a Bill Becomes Law, to help us understand how the legislature works and how laws are made in Kansas.
Additional Information
Kansas Symbols: from the State Library of Kansas.
Kansas Symbols: from the Great Plains Nature Center in Witchita.
Kansas
Facts and Symbols
Kathleen W. Deady
Kansas Facts and Symbols, by Kathleen W. Deady. 24 pages. Publisher: Capstone Press; Rev Upd edition (August 2003) Reading level: Grades 3-4. Interest level: Grades 3-9. Perfect for report writing! Easy-to-read text covers major Kansas symbols such as the state flag, seal, bird, tree, flower, animal, and more. A "Fast Facts" section highlights the state's capital city, largest city, physical size, population, natural resources, farm products, and primary manufactured goods. Also included are full-page maps that introduce the concept of the map key, which is great for teaching map-reading skills.
State Names, Seals
Flags and Symbols
Benjamin F. Shearer
Barbara S. Shearer
State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols, by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer. 544 pages. Greenwood Press; 3 Sub edition (October 30, 2001) This is one of the best, and most comprehensive, books we could find about the official state names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitols, flowers, trees, birds, songs, and miscellaneous designations of each state. This, coupled with the 1938 Shankle book, formed the basis of our symbol library. If you're serious about your states symbols, you'll want to have this book and the one below. This book also contains information about state holidays, license plates, sports teams, universities and other trivia.
State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers, and Other Symbols, by George Earlie Shankle. 522 pages. Reprint Services Corp; Revised edition (June 1971) Reprint of the 1938 revised edition. The first comprehensive book about our state symbols! From the preface: "This book grew out of the desire of its author to know, about his native state, a great many facts which he found exceedingly difficult to obtain. After three years of research in the Library of Congress, he is able to give to the public this storehouse of information, which could have been gathered from not library less fertile in source material..."
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