Road map of Kansas with distances between cities

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Road map of Kansas with distances between cities

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Highway map of Kansas state. Detailed highways and roads map of Kansas state with cities and towns. Kansas road map with exit numbers.
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Highway map of Kansas 2021. Free road map of Kansas state.
Funny and true nicknames of the state Kansas
  • America's Heartland (previously used on Licence Plates)
  • Central State
  • Dorothy's Home
  • Free State
  • Midway USA (previously used on Kansas Licence Plates)
  • Sunflower State
  • Wheat State (previously used on license plates)
  • Wheat State: Wheat is one of Kansas’ cash crops and leads the nation’s agricultural production.
  • Cyclone State: Due to its flat landscape, Kansas is prone to tornadoes, or cyclones. It is situated it what is known as “Tornado Alley.”
  • Midway, USA: Because of its location in the middle of the United States, Kansas was given this rhyming moniker.
  • The Central State: Another name that indicates Kansas’ location in the middle of America.
  • Jayhawk State: Abolitionists in the time of slavery were once called “Jayhawkers.” There were many who wanted Kansas to join the union during the Civil War. Thus the state became known as such.
  • The Grasshopper State: Due to the 1974 Grasshopper, or Rocky Mountain Locust, Plague, the lush crops and prairie grasses of Kansas were decimated.
  • Garden of the West: Alludes to the fertile soil.
  • The Squatter State: When Kansas was new, many of the arriving settlers were from the slave state of Missouri. They gained the term “squatters” referring to someone who lives on land they do not own.
  • Bleeding Kansas: Refers to bloody battles between anti- and pro-slavery peoples of Kansas and Missouri between 1854 and 1858. “Bleeding Kanas” was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, who incidentally is also famous for writing: “Go West, young man!”
  • The Battleground of Freedom: Another allusion to the anti-slavery battles fought on Kansas soil.
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