KANSAS

Kansas is known as Tornado Alley because of its many tornadoes.

"Home on the Range" is the state song of Kansas.

Kansas produces enough wheat each year to feed everyone on Earth six loaves of bread.

The Graham cracker was named after Sylvester Graham, a preacher from Kansas.

Dorothy's house from The Wizard of Oz is located in Liberal, Kansas.

Fort Leavenworth, established in 1827, is the oldest military post in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River.

Hutchinson, Kansas has a grain elevator that's half a mile long and can hold 46 million bushels of grain.

Kansas City's first fountains were built in the late 1800s to provide water for thirsty animals.

Kansas slopes from over 4,000 feet on the Colorado border to 700 feet on the Missouri line.

Kansas comes from the Algonquian word Akansa, which means "People of the South Wind".