Enjoyed this film. I grew up in Kansas. We had Iuka as an address and I went to school in Byers, Kansas. The big town was Pratt, Kansas. It was a great childhood. Would not want to change any of it. My parents had a farm between Iuka and Byers.

For me, the best part about small town Kansans is the fact that everyone points and waves at each other when passing on the road.

I love this video of my State ! Was raised on a ranch in Rooks County. Later moved to a small town outside of Topeka KS. Now in SE Kansas to be close to my son and his family after the death of my husband. Proud to be from Kansas and can recognize a few of these old towns. So many out there. Thank you for this video !! Edit : I'm so glad I'm not the only one that loves to see the Elevators. I spent much of my life riding in the big truck to take the wheat harvest to the Elevator in small town Zurich KS. Not much there now. Elevator still standing !

I live in small town Central Kansas. Thank you for this.

One of the most beautiful girls I have ever known was from Kansas. She was my first love. Wherever you are today L thank you for the memories.

I grew up in Kansas and lived there for 50 years but I've never heard of many of these places!

Thank you for the videos, I can't imagine how much time it takes to put these things together, travel, research, editing, etc. I like the narration with the great music in the background,,,,

Really enjoyed this video and your commentary, thanks!

Lucas Ks. Is an anomaly north of Wilson Lake about 6 miles. There is a house called The Garden of Eden. Really nice people.

I loves small town living.....grewup in a very small town in Mississippi....But lives in junction City Kansas and love it....no gangs, no stuck in traffic, no drive by shooting, very quiet laid back town....if u likes the drama, The Action from fast living, hooping hollering, shooting outs...if u likes this then don't move here....I love it, retired and quiet. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯

Enjoyed the tour so much, Just went thru Minneapolis, where I did Downtown Revitalization in 1994, nothing much left of what I did, but the sign I did on the Delphos Museum is still there. While putting it up a mama cat put a kitten in my truck, which I kept and had for 15 years, Thanks!

Back in the Eighties I had a job which required me to travel most of North America and no matter where I traveled to that Kansas City runway always looked good to me upon my return. Some folks call Kansas “a fly over area” and I say just keep flying, we don’t want or need you in our great state.

Thank you for taking us on a tour of the small towns that we have in our state.

A walk back in time. Interesting, historical. Thank you for your work.

Wilson Ks is where my relatives also lived. Ellsworth is where many Volga Germans settled. It’s the Czech. Capital of the US.

Thanks this is great! I love my home state.

I'm loving this, I actually went to school in Talmage!

Thank you for taking us on your tour through Kansas. I myself live in Kansas (Southeast) Kansas. We have such a beautiful state. And I love learning about all the history of our little towns. I would love to see a video like this of Southeast Kansas. We have several little towns around here. There's Toronto, Coyville, Fall River, New Albany, Buffalo, Benedict, Altoona, Buxton, and LaFountain to name a few. Those are the smaller towns anyway.

My uncle used to work at the Culver grain elevator, back in the late '70s and early '80s.

My mother's father lived in Salina and a maternal uncle, Paul Sullivan,--with his family--farmed 20 acres of 14,000 that were in the Sullivan heritage but said to be in the legal clutches of Paul's crazy sister and her lawyers, a sister who lived in the town, in a dark room , behind closed curtains.. Many summers , back in the forties and fifties, I spent on Paul Sullvan's farm, living in his run down two story house, trying to ride an Indian Pony or a tired old "Snip." In nights of the tornado season my cousins and I would stare out an attic window at the rows of funnels, illuminated by lightning, dipping down along the horizon. Paul had a large pigsty, one small silo with moldy sileage inside, a chicken coup, a barn with hayloft, and a garage that functioned as a shop for his car or truck that always needed work. The living room of the house, rarely used, with moldy furniture, stacked with Monkey Ward catalogues and Readers' Digests, looked out of large bay windows with dusty curtains, through a large covered portch, and out to rows of small, neglected fruit trees, near which, in varying stages of decay and rust, were assorted farm implements overgrown with dry grass. One went into the house at a kitchen door. My aunt Helen was alwars at an ironing board or changing diapers. Just off the kitchen was a rickety stairway down to the basement, and at the bottom of the stairs was a cream separator that I can still smell now, at 83. I can also hear the clank of the windmill that was close to the sidewalk to the kitchen door. This farm can be seen in satelite photos. Everything is there and positioned exactly as I remembered it. The drive to the farm off the highway that passsed by the old church and town was long and pefectly straight before finally making a left turn to the house. To the right paralleling the road as one drove from the highway was a low, scraggly shelter belt where I shot with my bb gun a Meadowlark, the State Bird. I felt so bad at what I had done that I tossed the gun and never, ever shot again any non human animal. In rains, the road was deep mud, and Paul was always getting stuck. In fact, Paul struggled, the farm deteriorating each year until my aunt divorced him and they all went to California, so I was astonished to discover on the internet that all the buildings are still there, just as they were (or perhaps repaired). On the right of the highway back to town was the old white church that I recall, the original United Breathren church and, I think, the only church in town. Opposite the grain eleavators at the other end of town was a general store with a borardwalk. The train tracks, which might have been the same ones that passed near the Sullivan acrage, went on to Salina and points west, as far as Morland and beyond. My mother's dad was for fifty years a mail clerk on that line, every eight days back in Salina. I drove a tractor for Paul, but otherwise I was bored to desperation and would wander many miles over ploughed ground, just dreaming. some Boy's Life fantasy. It was empty land, but it gave vast scope to childhood imagination. After a lifetime of world wandering I still can't get the plains of Kansas out of my head.

Glendale....I could be remembering incorrectly... But I seem to recall my grandparents telling me that the old red brick building had been the post office. And that the building that once sat on that foundation you showed (just before the red brick building), that had the double stairs...had been a general store. Hard for me to remember these things correctly, because those two locations looked about the same as today. But mostly hard to remember, because when the grandparents told me that, it nearly 50 years ago.😂 And yes, I can recall, in the early 1980s, there was someone living in the old school building. In fact, the person/people were friends of an acquaintance that I used to have. And I actually spent an evening in that building, drinking and playing poker with several people.

Thanks for the video. It was great to see some of the towns, where I lived growing up in Kansas.

My late ex was a salesman who traveled to these small towns. I remember the names of them. He always had to stay in a motel in the closest town which had one, then he would head out for the day and follow leads to the homes of ppl and sell them home improvements.

Great film !!!

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Beautiful job. Thanks for the film.

@ 57:17 Tescott!! My hometown!! My father's family was from there. My late mother worked for the Bank of Tescott...rising to a vice president position... for 45 years!! I attended 1st through 12th grades, and graduated from the Tescott school, in 1983. In the 1950s-60s, both my grandfather and my dad ran milk routes for the Tescott Cheese Factory. It was on one of those milk routes, that my dad met my mom!! And...my dad's parents owned and operated a gas station and mechanic shop, set at the very northeast corner of Tescott (corner of Kansas Street and K18 Highway) from the 1950s through the early 1970s!! Unfortunately my grandparent's place; my grandparents; and my mom, are all gone from this world.😢😢😢

I'm kind of bias to my area but Elk Falls and Sedan Kansas both have interesting facts about them. Elk Falls holds the "Outhouse Festival" every year and Sedan Kansas is known for their "Yellow Brick Road" (

@ 47:40 mark Bennington...My mother's family was from Bennington.😎 I spent many a Summer day there, in the 1970s.

Lived in Kansas all my life. Good video, very informative.

You should give editing classes, this was done very well. I just do my videos in real time, sometimes there's dead air because it's just a Corn field for 20 miles.

@ 11:30 mark Yes, that brick building is the old gymnasium of the old Culver school. The school closed in the early 1970s. I attended Kindergarten at the Culver school.😎

I think Minneapolis has those Mushroom looking rocks as an attraction and they have a small Airport South of Town as well.

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing. I would love to know where theses towns are you visit. Like, adding a shot of a map or something to give reference to where a town is in the state.

I wanna see more of kansas

My old friend Joe showed me the deed to his land 1 day. Union Pacific RR to his family. Owned it ever since.

Interesting video… since you were at Delphos go a little further north to Aurora and Jamestown

Garden City Ks the oasis near the Arkansas River on the Santa Fe Trail.

My family were Mennonites who settled in Harvey and Marion Counties. In 1886. They made their home in Goesse, Hillsboro and Walton and Newton. Bringing with them Turkey Red Wheat from Russia. I am saddened that you didn't mention these fine people.

I love your video please show videos of Helena Arkansas before and after then and now God bless

You should do more of these. Geneseo,Bushton Fredick are some towns that are all small that use to be way bigger but no longer are.

Mark grew up in Latchshaw and was the league’s champion in two sports. His brother Ernie was able to eventually be voted and president of his school. Big sister Gwen set county records in chip throwing. Ma had six kids.

Great video.💞💫😽

Wonderful documentary. Im not from Kansas but I lived here most my life.. 😅

Kansas is the bread basket of the United States of 🇺🇸 America, meaning that's where the USs wheat comes from. Many years ago some people complained because so many tons of wheat was sent to Russia. It didn't seem to hurt us, but I don't know. That was in the 1950s or 1960s I think ? I remember hearing about that then.

Can you do one one south east kansas please

Trail City is on highway 50/ SantazFe trail. It’s gone, but you can see where the roundhouse rails are just underground.

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲

my dad used to own the culver kansas store

Try Angola, KS. Last time I was there to visit a Medicaid waiver client, the town only had eight residents.

Just to let people know just how big Kansas is, I live in Girard, KS which is in the SE corner of Kansas. It is a longer trip from Girard, KS to Garden City, Kansas than from Girard, KS to Des Moines, Iowa.

Great video

Make a video of Lucas Kansas💚

Greetings from a Kansan stuck in Northern Maine for the past 25 years, married a Manie-ac

Love this

This city is called Verdi. It is a different word then verde, the Spanish word for green, but I wonder is it ? Verdi is very green with a lot of trees this commentator said.

I live in southeast Kansas

I'm from Michigan, but my Peavy family ancestors moved from Kansas to Michigan by wagon.

The churches near Leibenthal were built by the elders from the Volga Germans. It’s the first thing the Germans built. They basically came to escape Hitlers coming.

Kansas is my home state, there was a joke if you blink while driving through Kansas you might miss a small Kansan town

Nice movie

I haven’t heard of some of these places either.

Columbus and Crestline ks. Are small little towns.

How about doing a video on Edwards county? My mom lived in Kansas until 12 years old. She lived in Belpry

Victoria, KS has the beautiful Cathedral of the Plains.

Coolidge Ks,. Has a barely used Rick school that was k-12. It’s been a place for dances for people from Syracuse Kansas.

Like Coolidge Kansas. My dads from there. My mom is from HollyCo. Cool

It doesn't look too unlike its NZ equivalent. Drier though. Canterbury has undergone a dairy boom since the 1990s. Lots of irrigation.

How deep are the wells there ?

My family comes from Beverly kansas been there many times . all the Mortons came from there.

Well done 👍

My family homesteader north of HollyCo. 13 miles

There's a payphone in Shawnee Kansas. Lol.

addendum re the Sullivan farm. The town was Niles, as I should have mentioned at the start of the comment.

I went to grade school in ruleton and then we moved to Pratt Kansas

Trying to find my great -grandparents. They lived in a sod house in Coyville. I think they made a fortune from the Wilson County oil strike at Neodosha. James Edward Jones. Minnie Walker Jones. And the notorious J.Edward Jones. Called the “Louisiana Oilman Jones”. He had an office on Park Avenue in NYC. His stock fraud led to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Verde is the Spanish word for green.

Walmart killed them

Do the thing on Sylvia KS the team that beat them was Haven

The old saying In Kansas we trusted, in Kansas we went busted.

I live 12 miles from there

Were is Ada KS

I'm just starting the video but don't the original inhabitants need a greater mention? Yes, I am talking about Indians, native Americans, or indigenous people.

We could all be speaking French, interesting. I don’t think kids are taught that in school. We’re would the country come up with millions?? 😇🤔 2-20-21 I wish you made more videos, I really enjoyed this video. 😊🌴🌳

I like the content but looking out the side window is hard to watch. We are acclimated to seeing where we are going (out the front window) otherwise you lose perspective on size and depth. An analog is you wouldn’t walk down the sidewalk looking left. Face fwd and if something interesting appears, train your eyes then.

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Grenola kansas, population 120

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My ex-wife is from Minneapolis.

So much corporate farming has pushed out the family farms. That’s why everyone had to move to the jobs.

I’m sorry you could turn that noise off in the background.

Lived in Kansas most of my life. These are not good people. If you're not from here, don't come here. You will regret every second.

Kill that stupid background music.

It's way to windy in the plains for me. I traveled through Kansas on many occasions headed to Denver and it was windy every time I drove across Kansas

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I'm a transplant to Kansas, 15 yrs ago, consider myself a Kansan now, came from upper midwest rust belt....