Whiting is a historic railroad town created in the pioneering days when Kansas was first opened to settlement and no one knew where the populations would settle except following along the railroads. Railroad towns were spaced out every so often and no one knew which one was going to grow into a large city or which ones were going to vanish into history.
Capital Journal Online has this to say about it: "stop on the Central Branch of the Missouri Railroad, 31 miles from Atchison. The town was platted in 1866...the town served as the crossroads for the Union Pacific and Rock Island railroads, which met at the edge of town" http://cjonline.com/stories/011901/ksp_whiting.shtml
Today Whiting hasn't grown so much from when it was first laid out but it still remains as a linchpin in the lives of the farming families in this area. The street names have remained the same but buildings and businesses have come and gone while serving the needs of the community.
Enjoy this nice city park and appreciate the thoughtfulness of Pioneers planning to form a pleasant park for people to have fun, enjoy pastimes like basketball, tennis, volleyball and visiting their neighbors while having barbecue and socializing.
Second clue, who knew birds eat snakes while snakes climb trees without any limbs to eat birds eggs and nestlings. BYOP & make sure you put everything back the way you found it to preserve the fun for the next to find :-)
Warning: Spoiler video