Kansas State Map

Kansas State Map. Kansas is a state of the United States located in the middle of the country. This state is named after the Kansas River that flows through it. The river itself is named after the word in Sioux, Kansa which means "People of the south wind." The capital of Topeka and its largest city is Wichita.

Kansas State Map

The city is located in the heart of the State of the United States. Historically, Kansas is a land of many Indians who hunted bison there. This state was first inhabited by white Americans in the 1850s. Early in 1854, the abolitionists from New England and pro-slave settlers from neighboring Missouri marched to this area to determine whether Kansas would become a free state. This state known as Kansas Blood is a center of violence and chaos at the beginning of its formation when the forces of both sides clashed. On 29 January 1861 joined the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the number of Kansas residents exploded after a wave of immigrants turned this prairie into a productive farm. Now Kansas is one of the most productive and most important agricultural countries throughout the United States in wheat production.

Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River. The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.

The Arkansas River (pronunciation varies), rising in Colorado, flows with a bending course for nearly 500 mi (800 km) across the western and southern parts of the state. With its tributaries, (the Little Arkansas, Ninnescah, Walnut, Cow Creek, Cimarron, Verdigris, and the Neosho), it forms the southern drainage system of the state.

Kansas' other rivers are the Saline and Solomon Rivers, tributaries of the Smoky Hill River; the Big Blue, Delaware, and Wakarusa, which flow into the Kansas River and the Marais des Cygnes, a tributary of the Missouri River. Spring River is located between Riverton and Baxter Springs.