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Downtown Wichita. / 37.68889°N 97.33611°W / 37.68889; -97.33611. Downtown Wichita is the central business district, government and social core of the Wichita metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is home to several of the area's major landmarks and event venues including the Epic Center, Century II Performing Arts ...
wichita.gov. Wichita ( / ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː / WITCH-ih-taw) [10] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. [5] [6] The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. [8] It is located in south-central Kansas on the ...
Prehistory and exploration. The site at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers has served as a trading center and meeting place for nomadic hunting people for at least 11,000 years. [1] Human habitation in the Wichita area has been dated, in archeological digs, as far back as 3,000 B.C. [2]
The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back into ...
Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) / 37.6881000°N 97.3353222°W / 37.6881000; -97.3353222. The Orpheum Theatre is a historic theater in downtown Wichita, Kansas, United States. It was designed by renowned theatre architect John Eberson with funding from a group of local investors and opened on September 4, 1922.
The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the local history of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is located at 204 South Main (southeast of the corner of Main and William streets), and east of the former Wichita Public Library .
100005629. The Wichita Central Library is a public library building in Downtown Wichita, Kansas. It operated from 1967 to 2018, replacing the Wichita City Carnegie Library Building and replaced by the Wichita Public Library system's Advanced Learning Library. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The Wichita Public Library is the local public library system in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It consists of a central library located downtown and six branch locations distributed throughout the city.