Gove City is a city in Gove County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Gove County. In 2010, 80 people lived there.
Gove City was created in 1885. It became the county seat in 1886, and it incorporated in 1888. It is named after Grenville Gove. He was a member of the 11th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.
Gove City is at (38.959576, -100.487316). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
The 2010 census says that there were 80 people, 37 households, and 22 families living in Gove City.
Gove is a part of USD 292 Wheatland. The Wheatland High School mascot is a Thunderhawk.
Gove High School was closed through school unification. The Gove High School mascot was Gove Panthers.
Diosdado Peralta
Diosdado "Dado" Madarang Peralta (born March 27, 1952) is a Filipino jurist. He was appointed as the 26th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines by President Rodrigo Duterte on October 23, 2019. He was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from January 13, 2009 to October 22, 2019.
Alan Peter Cayetano
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano (born October 28, 1970) is a Filipino politician and diplomat. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2019 to 2020.
He also was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines from 2017 to 2018. From 2007 to 2017, he was a Senator of the Philippines.
Girard, Kansas
Girard is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Crawford County. In 2010, 2,789 people lived there.
Girard was created in the spring of 1868. It was named after the town of Girard, Pennsylvania, the old home of Charles Strong. It was built around a railroad line of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad. They built it there to try to gain an advantage over its rival, Crawfordsville.
The first post office in Girard was created in September 1868.
The first celebration in Girard happened on July 4, 1868, marking Sunday school and Independence Day. Under a law passed in March 1871, Girard became a third class city. In early April the first city officers were elected. The last meeting of the trustees was held April 5, and the first meeting of the new Council was held on April 7.
In May 2003, four people were killed and over a dozen injured by the biggest tornado in Crawford County. At least ten people died in southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri. The Girard tornado was first rated as an F4, but is a strong candidate for an upgrade to F5 status.
Girard is at (37.510204, -94.844157). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . Of that, is land and is water.
The 2010 census says that there were 2,789 people, 1,080 households, and 710 families living in Girard.
"Hometown Girard" is the local newspaper. It started on February 15, 2013. It is published every two weeks.
Hiawatha, Kansas
Hiawatha (Ioway: "Hári Wáta" pronounced ) is the biggest city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Brown County. In 2010, 3,172 people lived there.
Hiawatha was created in 1857. This makes it one of the oldest towns in Kansas. John M. Coe, John P. Wheller, and Thomas J. Drummond were important in creating the city, and the place was found on February 17, 1857. B.L. Rider was responsible for naming Hiawatha. It was named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha". Hiawatha became the Brown County Seat in 1858. The first school opened in 1870.
The main street was called Oregon Street after the Oregon Trail. Parallel streets north of it were named after Indian tribes north of the Trail, and streets south carried tribal names of those south of the Trail.
Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called "The Song of Hiawatha". The Onondaga and Mohawk Indian leader Hiawatha is in the poem. Next the former Ioway-Sac reservation and the present-day Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Hiawatha is called "Hári Wáta" in Ioway. It means "I am looking far away". This name may be the result of choosing Ioway words that sound like the English name. It has nothing to do with the Onondaga-Mohawk leader.
The city has also had the oldest Halloween parade in the United States. They started it in 1914.
Hiawatha is at (39.852530, -95.536429). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
The 2010 census says that there were 3,172 people, 1,369 households, and 843 families living in Hiawatha.
Phillipsburg, Kansas
Phillipsburg is a city in Phillips County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Phillips County. In 2010, 2,581 people lived there.
Phillipsburg was created in 1872. It became the county seat because it is in the middle of the county. It became county seat on July 26, 1872, but the first people did not come until Fall 1872. It was named after politician and journalist William A. Phillips. Phillipsburg was incorporated as a city in 1880.
The first post office was created in Phillipsburg on December 23, 1872. The first postmaster was Fred A Dutton. The name of the post office was spelled Phillipsburgh until 1893. Named in honor of John Bissel, Fort Bissel was built in 1872 to protect against possible harm from Native Americans. It closed in 1878. The Fort was rebuilt in the city park in 1962. The first cemetery in the town, Close cemetery, was created on March 19, 1879 by the Fairview cemetery association. It was given to the city on June 4, 1889. A branch of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was created through Phillipsburg in 1887. Also in 1887 complete telephone systems were installed in the city. A fire almost destroyed the entire town square in 1906. The current courthouse was built in 1912. "Kansas' Biggest Rodeo" was first held in 1929. It happens every year on the last weekend in July or first weekend in August.
In 1939, Consumer's Cooperative Association opened the world's first cooperative oil refinery on the north edge of town. It closed in 1992.
Phillipsburg is at (39.755173, -99.322331). It is in northwestern Kansas on the western edge of the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. Phillipsburg is in the middle of Phillips County. It is about 20 miles south of the Nebraska border. The city is on the north side of Deer Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Solomon River. Plotner Creek, a tributary of Deer Creek, goes south along the western edge of the city. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
Phillipsburg's climate is either a humid subtropical climate (Köppen "Cwa") or a humid continental climate (Köppen "Dwa"). Phillipsburg meets the criteria for a true winter dry season under the Köppen climate classification, which is a rare for its region and for the United States outside of South Florida. The average temperature for the year in Phillipsburg is 51 °F (11 °C), and the average yearly precipitation is 23.3 inches (594 mm). On average, January is the coldest month, July is the hottest month. May is the wettest month. The hottest temperature ever in Phillipsburg was 120 °F (49 °C) in 1936; the coldest temperature ever was -28 °F (-33 °C) in 1989.
The 2010 census says that there were 2,581 people, 1,116 households, and 702 families living in Phillipsburg.
Phillipsburg is has the USD 325.
The Phillipsburg Panthers have won the following Kansas State High School championships:
Norton, Kansas
Norton is a city in Norton County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Norton County. In 2010, 2,928 people lived there.
Norton was created in 1872. It was named after Capt. Orloff Norton.
The first hotel in Norton was a log house. It was built in 1873.
One of the first pictures of a tornado was taken in Norton in 1909. The photographer was Will Keller.