- Dodge City, Kansas, holds the title of Windiest City in the United States
- There are 27 Walnut Creeks in Kansas
- In Kansas the Arkansas River is called the Arkansas (ahr-KAN-zuhs) and in Colorado and Oklahoma it is called the Arkansaw (AR-kan-saw)
- Kansas may be said to be “flatter than a pancake,” but it’s an angled pancake rising from 700 feet above sea level in the east to more than 4,000 in the west
- Harvey House, the first restaurant chain in the U.S., began in Kansas
- Kansas wheat farmers annually produce enough wheat to give each person in the world 6 loaves of bread
- When surveyors in North America measure property lines they are measuring from Meade’s Ranch, Kansas, the Geodetic Center of North America
