Baxter Springs, Kansas Baxter Springs, Kansas Downtown Baxter Springs (2008) Downtown Baxter Springs (2008) Baxter Springs is a town/city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, and positioned along Spring River.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 4,238. It is the most crowded city of Cherokee County.
From an early trading post, the town/city interval dramatically with the expansion of cattle ranching in the West and was the first "cow town" in Kansas following the Civil War.
After barns s were constructed into Texas, cattle drives no longer were made to Baxter Springs and other points along the trail, and the suburbs declined.
The town/city protected its land, and owners and operators chose Baxter Springs for their residences and company offices.
One of the biggest Osage bands was led by Chief Black Dog (Manka - Chonka); his men instead of the Black Dog Trail by 1803. It started from their winter territory east of Baxter Springs and extended southwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The Osage stopped at the springs for healing on their way to summer hunting grounds.
Nineteenth-century pioneer eventually titled the town/city and close-by springs after its first European-American settler, A.
Baxter, who claimed territory about 1850 and assembled a frontier tavern or inn. During the American Civil War, the United States government assembled a several rudimentary military posts at present-day Baxter Springs, fortifying what had been a trading post: Fort Baxter, Camp Ben Butler and Camp Hunter.
In October 1863, the Confederate Quantrill's raiders attacked Fort Baxter, whose defense that day encompassed a majority of infantry of United States Colored Troops. The USCT held the fort, and Quantrill's men attacked a detachment of Union troops out on the prairie, in the Battle of Baxter Springs. The Confederates outnumbered the Union forces outside the fort and killed nearly all of them, a total of 103 men. After temporarily reinforcing the fort, the United States abandoned the Baxter Springs region later that year.
By 1867, company doers in town had constructed a cable ferry athwart the Spring River, which was directed into the 1880s.
Texas cattlemen and stock raisers drove large herds of cattle from the southern plains, and used Baxter Springs as a way point to the northern markets linking to barns s to the East.
This led to the dramatic expansion of Baxter Springs by the early 1870s as the first cow town in Kansas.
Texas cattle trade stimulated the expansion of related businesses, and Baxter Springs interval rapidly.
After barns s were constructed into Texas later in the century, cattlemen no longer needed Baxter Springs as a way station to the northern markets.
The first barns to enter Texas from the north, instead of in 1872, was the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad As ranchers started shipping their beef directly from Texas, company in Baxter Springs and other cow suburbs fell off sharply. Spring River from Riverside Park in Baxter Springs Lead had been found in small quantities and of poor character in the early days of Baxter Springs along Spring Creek.
The Baxter Springs City Council by Ordinance 42 enacted provisions which greatly limited any quarrying inside town/city limits.
Baxter Springs greatly benefited from the economic effects of county-wide quarrying activity.
In addition, many quarrying executives assembled their company offices in Baxter Springs in the early 1900s.
The designated highway was informally known as America's "Main Street" and had a prominent place in prominent culture. The town has reserved the territory of Riverside Park along the Spring River for improve access to its green banks.
A tornado started near Quapaw, Oklahoma and moved through Baxter Springs on April 27, 2014.
Baxter Springs is positioned at 37 1 23 N 94 44 5 W (37.023062, -94.734762). The town/city is sited on the bank of the Spring River at the edge of the Ozarks, in the Spring River basin.
The center of town is less than two miles (3 km) from the Kansas-Oklahoma state border, though the incorporated region of the town/city extends to the border.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.19 square miles (8.26 km2), of which, 3.11 square miles (8.05 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 4,238 citizens , 1,754 homeholds, and 1,151 families residing in the city.
There were 1,754 homeholds of which 33.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.4% were non-families.
As of the 2000 census, there were 4,602 citizens , 1,860 homeholds, and 1,246 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Baxter Springs is mentioned in the song "Choctaw Bingo" by musician James Mc - Murtry.
Baxter Springs is also the setting for two of Canadian playwright, Norm Foster's plays; "Outlaw" and "Jenny's House of Joy".
Historic Images of Baxter Springs, Special Photo Collections at Wichita State University Library City Offices, Baxter Springs, 2007.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
"Chapter XIII: The History of Baxter Springs", History of Cherokee County, Kansas and representative people, Ed.
Thompson, "Baxter Springs as a Military Post 1862 1863," Kansas in the Civil War Battles and Campaigns, Vol.
"History", City of Baxter Springs website, accessed 5 Nov 2009 a b c Tri-State Mining History, Baxter Springs Museum United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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City of Baxter Springs Baxter Springs - Directory of Public Officials Baxter Springs Heritage Center and Museum Baxter Springs City Map, KDOT Municipalities and communities of Cherokee County, Kansas, United States Baxter Springs Columbus Galena Roseland Scammon Weir West Mineral
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