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Downtown Wichita is located at 37°41′20″N 97°20′10″W (37.688888, −97.336111) at an elevation of 1,299 feet (396 m). [11] It mainly consists of the area between Murdock Street to the north, U.S. Route 54 (Kellogg) to the south, the Arkansas River to the west, and Washington Street to the east. Portions of Downtown overlap with the ...
History. Present-day Midtown was the original town site of Wichita, first platted in 1865 and initially settled in the late 1860s and 1870s. Postmaster, surveyor, and hotelkeeper Darius Munger built the city’s first house in 1868 at the corner of what are today Waco and 9th Streets. Constructed from cottonwood logs, his house went on to serve ...
McAdams, Wichita, Kansas. / 37.70472°N 97.32333°W / 37.70472; -97.32333. McAdams is a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [3] A mixed industrial and residential area northeast of Downtown Wichita, it is a historical center of the city’s African American community. [4]
Though Wichita leaders complied, and Boeing won the contract, Boeing then promptly announced it would close its remaining Boeing-Wichita facilities, and leave the city permanently by late 2013—ending an 85-year presence in the city—a stunning shock to the city. However, Wichita remains a major manufacturing center for the aircraft industry ...
Riverside is located at 37°41′55″N 97°21′35″W (37.698611, -97.359722) at an elevation of 1,306 feet (398 m). [11] The Arkansas River forms its western and southern border, 13th Street North its northern border, and Bitting Street, the Little Arkansas River, and Nims Street its eastern border.
Southwest is located at 37°38′16″N 97°21′25″W (37.637778, -97.356944) at an elevation of 1,284 ft (391 m). [3] It consists of the area between Meridian Avenue in the west and McLean Boulevard in the east and between May Street in the north and MacArthur Road in the south. [2] Southwest borders the neighborhoods of Stanley/Aley to the ...
The City of Wichita’s Park and Recreation Department maintains one park in the neighborhood, Chautauqua Park. Converted to a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) park from a house lot in 1999, it is on the 200 block of North Chautaqua Street just south of a bicycle/pedestrian path that runs from Lorraine to Interstate 135 several blocks west of Uptown. The ...
North Riverside is located at 37°42′53″N 97°21′16″W (37.714722, -97.354444) at an elevation of 1,309 ft (399 m). [4] It consists of the area between the Arkansas River and Amidon Avenue in the west and the Little Arkansas River in the east and between 21st Street in the north and 13th Street in the south.