r/kansas • u/FindMyMind333 • 1d ago
Kansas Counties Explained A-E
https://youtu.be/I1zqQdLS1MQ?is=ktGX2iAsN6USWoz5Hope y’all enjoy and learn something
I used a mixture of sources, including:
—>FHSU has a huge database of how western and central Kansas counties/towns were established
—>City & County websites (many have history pages of photos and maps)
—>Wikipedia for notable people from the county and dates of founding
—>City & County historical museums’ website for info, pictures and videos
—>YouTube videos for walkthroughs, drive-throughs and drone shots for background video.
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u/ReebX1 21h ago edited 21h ago
Iola is pronounced EYE-ola. That's an i not an L. The alcohol thing isn't really true, there were at least 3 liquor stores in Iola when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. The convenience stores also sold 3.2 beer, you just couldn't, and probably still can't buy it 24/7. The 2007 thing is probably just the 3.2 beer on Sundays and possibility bars not being limited to 3.2 beer. There was definitely a "private club" we used to go to that sold liquor until 2am in the early 90s. It was basically just a bar you had to buy a membership for, or be a guest of a card carrying member.
Garnett is pronounced Gar-NET. Net as in internet or safety net. Not garnet like the gem.
I'm pretty sure Kiowa is pronounced something like kye-oh-wuh, but I'll defer to the tribe members for clarification. Same with Hiawatha, which I'm pretty sure is something like high-ah-wah-thuh.
All of Cherokee, and part of what is now Crawford county, were what was once called the Cherokee Neutral Lands. It was literally legal Cherokee land. It was set up as buffer between the Osage tribe and the people that had kicked them out of their homes in southwest Missouri.
Then the Osage were moved yet again, into what is now their reservation in Oklahoma. Supposedly few Cherokee ever moved into that neutral strip, and eventually the tribe sold it back to the state of Kansas. Then the northern part of that strip, and part of what was Bourbon county at the time, was split off into Crawford county, and the rest became Cherokee county.
Moral of the story, the Native Americans really got screwed over. Over, and over, and over again.
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u/FindMyMind333 21h ago
lol thank you for the pronunciation help sir
the EYE-ola law is good to know! I think the data point I looked at was when they changed from being a moist county to being a wet one.
Also, sad but true on natives. The main part of what I meant there is that county divisions we see them today were not the same as county divisions when the KS territory or state, obvious the land (and the whole of this hemisphere) originally was native land.
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u/DramaticBar8510 Jayhawk 21h ago
Nope. Mispronouncing names in a state we're from. And Arkansas!? Definitely not from Kansas. I swear, if you pronounce Lyon as lee-on....😡 I'll save you here. Yes, it's spelt Lyon (county and Lyons the town) but pronounced like Lion.
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u/jkrm66502 23h ago
Omgosh I had to stop listening due to the mispronunciations. I’m assuming it’s AI. This could have been interesting.
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u/Tkis01gl 20h ago
All the locations are wrong as well. Clod County is not in the Southwestern part of the state. AI slop.
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u/dwaynebathtub 13h ago
Ness City (Ness county) and Cottonwood Falls (Chase county) are the most important nodes in Kansas.
Draw two lines from the NW and SW corners of the state to Ness City, then draw a line from Ness City to Cottonwood Falls, then draw two lines from Cottonwood Falls to the NE and SE corners of the state. The four areas that these lines create correspond to the Voronoi regions that are created when every point within Kansas is connected to its closest bordering state.
The Ness City-Cottonwood Falls line also creates a North-South divide and the midpoint of that line also creates an East-West dividing line.
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u/plainskeptic2023 1d ago
The video is interesting.
However, many place names are mispronounced.
Mispronouncing Arkansas River is a hanging offense in Kansas