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Encyclopedia Britannica



ARKANSAS CITY

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARKANSAS CITY , a city of Cowley county, Kansas, U.S.A., situated near the S. boundary of the state, in the
fork
  of the Arkansas and
Walnut
  rivers. Pop. (189o) 8347; (1900) 6140, of whom 302 were negroes; (1905) 7634; (1910) 7508. The city is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, the Midland Valley and the Kansas
South
 -Western railways. To the
south
  is the Chilocco Indian school (in Key county, Oklahoma), established by the U.S. government in 1884. A canal joining the Arkansas and
Walnut
  rivers furnishes good water
power
 . The manufactories include
flour
  mills, packing establishments, a creamery and a paint factory. The city is situated in the midst of a
rich
  agricultural, region and is a
supply
  centre for southern Kansas and Oklahoma, with large jobbing interests. The municipality owns and operates the water-works. Arkansas City, first known as Creswell, was settled in 187o, was chartered as a city under its present name in 1872 and was rechartered in 1880.


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