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  Chase County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chase County (standard abbreviation: CS) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.
Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls, the oldest county courthouse still in use in the state of Kansas.
The median income for a household in the county was $32,656, and the median income for a family was $39,848.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chase_County,_Kansas   (507 words)

  
 Salmon P. Chase - tScholars.com
The Kansas-Nebraska legislation, and the subsequent troubles in Kansas, having convinced him of the futility of trying to influence the Democrats, he assumed the leadership in the North-west of the movement to form a new party to oppose the extension of slavery.
Chase sought the Republican nomination for president in 1860; at the Party convention he got 49 votes on the first ballot and afterwards threw his support to Abraham Lincoln.
Chase's daughter, Kate, was a notable socialite in her own right as the Civil War "Belle of Washington", acting as her father's official hostess and unofficial campaign manager.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Salmon_P._Chase   (1659 words)

  
 Lyon County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The racial makeup of the county was 83.27% White, 2.27% Black or African American, 0.47% Native American, 2.04% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 9.79% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races.
In the county the population was spread out with 25.70% under the age of 18, 16.20% from 18 to 24, 27.20% from 25 to 44, 19.10% from 45 to 64, and 11.60% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the county was $32,819, and the median income for a family was $43,112.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lyon_County,_Kansas   (465 words)

  
 Chase County, Part 1
Chase County, named after Salmon P. Chase, who was United States Senator from, and Governor of, Ohio, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was organized in 1859.
The northern boundary of the county is 102 miles south of the Nebraska line; its eastern line, 96 miles from the State of Missouri; its southern boundary, 75 miles from the Indian Territory; and its western boundary, 285 miles from the State of Colorado.
Diamond Creek is in the northwest part of the county, Falls, in the north central; Toledo, in the northeast and eastern; Bazaar, in the southeast and south central; Cottonwood, in the southwestern.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/chase/chase-co-p1.html   (2303 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
After the bond issue passed, Isaac Alexander, one of the county’s more flamboyant settlers, donated two and a half acres of land in Cottonwood Falls (the county seat) to the county with the condition that a combination courthouse and jail be built on his land at the head of Broadway, the hamlet’s main street.
The Chase County Courthouse is the oldest courthouse in Kansas and the Midwest, still in daily use.
As Chase Countians toured their new, majestic Courthouse from the basement to its towering cupola, some dare-devil boys, the story goes, raced each other around the wide ledge on the roof or took turns sliding down the walnut banister.
www.galenfrysinger.com /kansas_chase_county.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Kansas
Chase County, Kansas – Economic Geology of Outcrops (and limestone quarries), presented by the Kansas Geological Survey.
Silverdale Limestone is quarried south of Fort Riley in Cowley County.
The courthouse was built with native Kansas limestone as was the city hall.
www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/kansas.html   (2072 words)

  
 Bazaar, a ghost town in Chase County, Kansas  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Located in the heart of the picturesque Flint Hills, Bazaar is one of the oldest towns in Chase county.
Martha died on November 11, 1858, the first known white death in Chase county, but her community name was remembered’ when the post office was established by her husband.
Chase county was organized in 1859 and by this time Bazaar had developed into a small town with about six homes.
www.galenfrysinger.com /kansas_bazaar.htm   (709 words)

  
 Chase County, Part 3
GEORGE BALCH, Sheriff of Chase County, was born in Niagara County, N. September 6, 1833.
SIDNEY A. BREESE, County Clerk of Chase County, was born in Mount Gilead, Morrow Co., Ohio, October 4, 1836,.
Breese was elected Register of Deeds of Chase County, and afterwards re-elected, and held the office until he entered the army, October 10, 1861.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/chase/chase-co-p3.html   (3994 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas KS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Chase County, KS The county was named for Salmon P. Chase, Ohio governor and later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Chase County is one of 105 counties in Kansas.
This was an increase of 1.25% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4520   (425 words)

  
 Chase County KS
Created out of portions of Wise and Butler counties, and named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, successively Governor of Ohio, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The Kansas State Historical Society also has more historical data for Chase County online including a rich bibliography and lists of cemeteries, post offices, and newspapers.
The Matfield Green branch of the Land Institute, started by Wes Jackson, who is one of the leaders of the "sustainable farming" movement, is located at the old lumber yard.  This group is also preserving the old school there.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/CS   (412 words)

  
 KGS--Chase County--Mineral Resources--Economic Geology
The principal uses of the limestones regarded as of minor importance as building stone are for construction of local bridge foundations and abutments, foundations for small buildings, and in construction of farm buildings and other relatively small structures.
All the thicker limestone ledges in Chase County are potential sources of rock for crushing and for riprap material.
The Grant shale as sampled in Cowley County and also in Riley County is a natural wool rock (a wool rock is defined as a rock having a composition such that no additional material need be added to prepare it for processing into rock wool).
www.kgs.ku.edu /General/Geology/Chase/pt2_econ.html   (1548 words)

  
 Chase County Tourism
8, 1910, the county commissioners met in special session — an emergency existing because of the burning of the court house.
The county voted for a bond issue of $25,000 to construct a new court house.
It was after the county was organized, but before a court house was provided, when fires began to interfer with county business and raise havoc with records.
www.chasecounty.com /chasecourthousehistory.html   (361 words)

  
 Chase County Kansas Genealogy
Chase County Marriage Index, 1860-1938 A - Z
Kansas Vital Records - How andwhere to obtain Kansas birth, death, marriage and divorce records.
The Chase County site will be always changing.You will see new and additional links to help you in your research.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/chase/index.html   (426 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas houses, real estate, agriculture, wages, work, ancestries, and more
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Chase County is $379 a month.
Chase County historical area-adjusted tornado activity is near Kansas state average.
Tornadoes in this county have caused 7 injuries recorded between 1950 and 2004.
www.city-data.com /county/Chase_County-KS.html   (468 words)

  
 Digital Chase County Map and all Kansas County Maps.
Chase County Map, Maps of Chase County and all Kansas Maps.
Our map of Chase County is fully editable, logically layered (View Layer Directory), and royalty free.
Every county map is available, but we may not yet have your county of interest completed.
www.county-maps.com /maps.asp?id=892   (216 words)

  
 Chase County - Kansas State Historical Society
Gardner, Elizabeth C. Index of Surnames Volume 1 Chase County Historical Sketches.
N.A. Chase County Courthouse; 1873, A Historic Landmark.
Tuttle, Charles R. A New Centennial History of the State of Kansas.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/bibliographies/counties/kscocs.htm   (70 words)

  
 Chase County Overview
Chase County is dominated by native prairie on the beautifully rolling Flint Hills.
The county courthouse, situated in Cottonwood Falls, is said to be the oldest court house still serving as a court house west of the Mississippi.
This is a standard color composite (bands 1, 2, and 3) of Chase County taken on July 9, 2000.
www.emporia.edu /earthsci/student/vopata4/chase2.htm   (175 words)

  
 KGS--Geologic Map--Chase
Moore, J. Jewett, H. O'Connor, 2004, Geologic map of Chase County, Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Map M-56, 1 sheet, scale 1:50,000.
Paper copies of the complete map (with stratigraphic column and legend info) are available from the Kansas Geological Survey, 1930 Constant Ave., Lawrence, KS 66047 (or phone 785-864-3965).
The Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC) has ArcInfo coverages available for this generalized geologic data.
www.kgs.ku.edu /General/Geology/County/abc/chase.html   (122 words)

  
 Some Prominent Members of the American Maule Family
In addition to operating a store, Charles was the first mayor of the town and then served in the Kansas legislature and on the Board of Commissioners of Chase County, Kansas.
He was Tripp County state's attorney from 1920 to 1924, 1934 to 1935, and 1941 to 1942.
7 Chase County Historical Sketches (Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Chase County Historical Society 1940); Alfred Theodore Andreas, History of the State of Kansas, containing a full account of its growth from an uninhabited territory to a wealthy and important state...Also, a description of its counties, cities, towns and villages (Chicago, A.
www.maulefamily.com /maule50.htm   (6658 words)

  
 Territorial Kansas Online - Counties
From El Mendaro, Madison Co., K.T., F. Cummins wrote to Wood regarding the latter's candidacy for the territorial legislature in the election of November 8, 1859.
Hartz, a medical doctor, wrote to Wood from Allen, Breckinridge (Lyon) County, regarding the Woods' "sick son," but devoted most of his two page letter to a legislative issue--the proposal to make Allen the county seat of a new county.
Thaddeus Hyatt, president of the National Kansas Committee, wrote this letter to the New York Tribune in order to make New Englanders aware of the destitution and suffering of settlers in Kansas Territory.
www.territorialkansasonline.org /cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=show_location&county_id=48   (696 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Chase County, Kan.
For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/KS/CS.html   (513 words)

  
 Prairie Fire Festival - Cottonwood Falls, Chase County, Kansas
is a week-long event in tribute to the ranchers of the Flint Hills of Kansas who participate in the annual range management practice of burning the prairie.
European settlers learned the prairie-fire principal from the Native Americans, and incorporated the practice into the management of the finest cattle-grazing lands on earth.
One of the integral prairie management tools, the annual prairie fires are also a remarkable, observable Spring-time event for visitors to the Flint Hills Region of Kansas.
www.prairiefirefestival.com   (276 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas QuickLinks from the US Census Bureau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino origin: Kansas counties, Places in Kansas
Historical population counts, 1900 to 1990, for all counties in Kansas
Summary statistics for Kansas counties by NAICS (North American Industry Classification System): 2002
quickfacts.census.gov /qfd/states/20/20017lk.html   (255 words)

  
 Chase County Land Use Classification Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chase County Overview Makesig Maxlike Mindist Piped Cluster Isocluster Results References
The Landsat 7 imagery is from path 28 row 33 and was taken on July 9, 2000.
I found that the maxlike supervised classification gave the most accurate results for classifying surface features throughout Chase County.
www.emporia.edu /earthsci/student/vopata4/chase1.htm   (166 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas Lawn and Garden Supplies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
More than 20 Southwest County students were among those honored at the inaugural Superintendent's Academic Awards Banquet Wednesday.
A sellout crowd at Phoenix, hoping to see Barry Bonds play, arrived to a soggy stadium Saturday and learned the Athletics' home Cactus League game against the Giants was rained out.
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www.termsontech.com /county-14552/lawn_and_garden_supplies/chase.htm   (582 words)

  
 Cottomwood Fall, Chase County, Kansas
Don is an awarding winning author of 39 novels -- historical fiction about the American Plains Indians and their way of life on the plains of the midwest between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Eddie, as her friends call her, is a retired school teacher who currently runs an after-school center for poor and migrant children in Emporia, Kansas.
Built from local limestone, it is the oldest Kansas courthouse still in use.
www.washburn.edu /cas/art/cyoho/archive/KStravel/cottonwood   (291 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At this time there is no Volunteer Coordinator for Chase County.
If you are interested in becoming the Coordinator for this county, please complete the Volunteer Form or contact Joe Reynolds.
I have no additional information for Chase County, Kansas at this time.
www.reynoldsrecords.com /kansas/chase.html   (93 words)

  
 Chase County, Kansas a Home Insurance Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - J.P. Morgan Chase's exposure to the momentum in the capital markets makes it a good investment opportunity, Prudential Equity Group said Tuesday.
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