Ellis, Kansas Ellis, Kansas Downtown Ellis (2014) Downtown Ellis (2014) Location inside Ellis County and Kansas Location inside Ellis County and Kansas KDOT map of Ellis County (legend) KDOT map of Ellis County (legend) County Ellis Ellis is a town/city in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 2,062. The Kansas Pacific Railway assembled a water station at the site of present-day Ellis in 1867 and then purchased the site under the Homestead Act.
Post Office Department opened a postal service at Ellis, marking the town's foundation. Kansas Pacific laid out the town in 1873, establishing a depot, a hotel, and a several shops. That same year, pioneer from Syracuse, New York, and later from Louisville, Kentucky, appeared to work for the barns . The first church opened in Ellis in 1873, the first school in 1874.
Starting in 1875 and for the rest of the 1870s, Ellis was a cowtown, serving as a shipping point for cattle herds from the south. Bukovina Germans began settling in the region in 1886. Ellis incorporated as a town/city in January 1888. Ellis is positioned at 38 56 10 N 99 33 33 W (38.936211, -99.559269), at an altitude of 2,119 feet (646 m). Located in northwestern Kansas on Interstate 70, Ellis is 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of Hays, the county seat. It is approximately 146 miles (235 km) northwest of Wichita and 260 miles (420 km) west of Kansas City. Ellis lies on the edge of the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. Big Creek, a tributary of the Smoky Hill River, runs east through the town/city and has been dammed to form a long, narrow reservoir, Big Creek Lake. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.64 square miles (4.25 km2), all of it land. On average in Ellis, January is the coolest month, and July is both the warmest month and the wettest month.
The hottest temperature recorded in Ellis was 110 F (43 C) in 2003; the coldest temperature recorded was -24 F (-31 C) in 1989. Climate data for Ellis, Kansas In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The cost of living in Ellis is mostly low; compared to a U.S.
Average of 100, the cost of living index for the improve is 81.1. As of 2012, the median home value in the town/city was $85,300, the median chose monthly owner cost was $1,036 for housing units with a mortgage and $397 for those without, and the median gross rent was $564. Ellis has a mayor-council form of government with a town/city council consisting of six members.
Ellis lies inside Kansas's 1st U.S.
The Ellis Railroaders have won the following Kansas State High School championships: Route 40 run concurrently east-west immediately north of Ellis.
Union Pacific Railroad operates one freight rail line, the Kansas Pacific (KP) line, through Ellis.
The Ellis Review is the small-town newspaper, presented weekly. Ellis is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas tv market. Ellis is the site of Walter P.
Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, interval up in Ellis.
When he was 17, he began his longterm position working in the barns roundhouse, where he became a machinist's apprentice and advanced his expertise for metal working and machinery. In the summer of 1993, the Chrysler Corporation recognized Chrysler's hometown by sponsoring a parade and Chrysler festival, attended by a several members of the Chrysler family.
Founded in 1994, the Ellis Railroad Museum features items and photographs from Ellis's barns ing past.
Outside the exhibition is a miniature barns that runs on a one-mile (1.6 km) loop track, called the BK&E Railroad. This stands for the "Buddy King and Ellis Railroad", titled for its major donor the late Francis "Buddy" King, a former mayor of Ellis who died in office in 1994.
See also: List of citizens from Ellis County, Kansas Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Ellis include: Historic Images of Ellis, Special Photo Collections at Wichita State University Library A Victorian home in Ellis (2007) A home in Ellis (2007) Guide Map of the Best and Shortest Cattle Trail to the Kansas Pacific Railway; Kansas Pacific Railway Company; 1875.
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