Welcome to the Great State of Kansas Geoart!
Kansas, situated on the American Great Plains, became the 34th state on January 29, 1861. Its path to statehood was long and bloody: After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 opened the two territories to settlement and allowed the new settlers to determine whether the states would be admitted to the union as “free” or”slave,” North and South competed to send the most settlers into the region. This quickly led to violence, and the territory became known as “Bleeding Kansas.” Kansas has long been known as part of America’s agricultural heartland, and is home to the major U.S. military installation Fort Leavenworth. In 1954, it became a battleground of the civil rights movement when the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case was decided in the Supreme Court, ending the doctrine of “separate but equal” in public schools. Kansas is also known for its contributions to jazz music, barbecue and as the setting of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s book The Wizard of Oz.
Date of Statehood: January 29, 1861
Capital: Topeka
Population: 2,853,118 (2010)
Size: 82,278 square miles
Nickname(s): Sunflower State; Wheat State; Jayhawk State
Here you will find 105 puzzle or challenge caches dealing with the great State of Kansas. Some may be easy, some may be hard but I hope that you will enjoy solving/completing each one and then have fun in finding the caches themselves.
Fort Hays State University is the fourth largest of the six state universities. It is based in Fort Hays, KS. FHSU was founded in 1902 as the Western Branch of Kansas State Normal School, which is now known as Emporia State University. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History is one of the featured museums and houses over 100,000 square feet of fossil dinosaurs, mosasaurs, pterosaurs, fish and various other prehistoric species that inhabited Kansas over 70–80 million years ago. Solve the puzzle below to get the final coords.
FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY
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