Relocating to Kansas?

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Before you start your journey, take a minute and review what makes Kansas a great place to work and play.

What makes Kansas real estate worthwhile?

Although the topography of Kansas varies more than popular belief would have it, the prevailing images of rolling prairie and endless wheatfields are essentially accurate. The flatlands and scattered low hills of the Osage Plains in southeastern Kansas blend gradually into a prairie of bluestem grass called the Flint Hills, named for the flinty limestone that underlies their grassy slopes. In the Dissected Till Plains covering the state’s northeastern corner, rivers have cut into the rich, glacially deposited soil to form high bluffs in many places. The western half of Kansas is blanketed by the Great Plains, a broad expanse of flat, semiarid highlands broken only by an occasional stream valley. Elevations in the state rise gently and uniformly east to west, from a low of 207 meters (679 feet) along the Verdigris River in the southeast to a high point of 1,231 meters (4,039 feet) atop Mount Sunflower, near the border with Colorado.

Transportation routes are integral not only to the state’s economy, but to its history as well. The storied Santa Fe, Oregon, and Chisholm trails all crossed through Kansas territory. In 1821, when the Santa Fe became the first of these thoroughfares to open, the plains of Kansas were home to many Native American groups such as the Kansa, the Osage, the Pawnee, and the Wichita. Over the next two decades, thousands of other Native Americans were displaced from their homelands in the eastern United States and resettled on reservations in Kansas.

Most of the land of Kansas came into U.S. possession in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, but was not opened for settlement until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. As the Civil War approached, the Kansas Territory became a highly publicized battleground for the nation’s struggle over slavery. Kansas was eventually admitted to the Union as a free state, but not before years of bloodshed between abolitionists and supporters of slavery had garnered it the sad epithet "Bleeding Kansas." Today Kansans stride toward the 21st century with an increasingly diversified modern economy, and point with pride to a flourishing arts community and progressive systems of higher education and public health.

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