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Leavenworth County is located in the U.S. state of Kansas and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its county seat and most populous city is Leavenworth. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 81,881. The county was named after Henry Leavenworth, a general in the Indian Wars who established Fort Leavenworth.
Kansas City is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 156,607, making it one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is situated at Kaw Point, the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. It is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified Government". It is the location of the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas City Kansas Community College.
The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas.
Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. Fort Leavenworth has been historically known as the "Intellectual Center of the Army."
The United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth is a medium security U.S. penitentiary in northeast Kansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite federal prison camp (FPC) for minimum-security male offenders.
The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is a Latin Church ecclesiastical province, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Kansas in the United States.
East Leavenworth is an unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Route 45, approximately three miles east of Leavenworth, Kansas. It is within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Grant Township is a township in Douglas County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 442.
The Patuxent Branch Trail is a 10.4-mile (16.7 km) trail in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It mostly runs along the path of the Patuxent River, just south of Maryland Route 32.
Kickapoo is an unincorporated community in Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Reno is an unincorporated community in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. Reno is located at 39°03′04″N95°07′12″W. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Wadsworth was an unincorporated community in Delaware Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Fall Leaf is an unincorporated community in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Hoge is an unincorporated community in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Mount Pleasant is a ghost town in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. It was located approximately 1.5 miles north of Potter along Rawlins Rd.
Pardee is a ghost town in Atchison County, Kansas, United States.
Springdale is an unincorporated community in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States.
Lenape is an unincorporated community in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States.
Geary is a ghost town in Wayne Township, Doniphan County, Kansas, United States.
Barry, often referred to as "The Town of Barry" was a city centered at the intersection of Barry Road and Old Stagecoach Road in northern Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri. It was founded in 1829 and named after the Postmaster General William Taylor Barry.
References
- ↑ "Delaware City, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System , United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
- ↑ History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State. A. T. Andreas. 1883. p. 458.
- ↑ "Leavenworth County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
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