Pratt, Kansas Pratt, Kansas Location inside Pratt County and Kansas Location inside Pratt County and Kansas KDOT map of Pratt County (legend) KDOT map of Pratt County (legend) County Pratt Pratt is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Pratt County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 6,835. Pratt is home to Pratt Community College.
Pratt was established in 1884 and titled after Caleb S.
Pratt, a young Civil War officer from the Kansas Infantry, who was killed in the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri The first postal service in Pratt was established in June 1884. Built in 1930, Hotel Roberts is the biggest and most highly styled historic hotel in Pratt.
Construction of the hotel was initiated by the Pratt Chamber of Commerce, which formed a committee in the late 1920s specifically to facilitate the assembly of a large new hotel.
The Pratt Hotel Company owned and directed the hotel and hired Wichita architect Samuel S.
Voigt and Kansas City contractor Webster L.
Elson not only supervised the rapid assembly of the "fire-proof" building, he was a beginning member of the Pratt Hotel Company, and he retained an ownership interest in the property for many years.
The close-by Pratt Army Airfield Base served as the final staging region for B-29 outfitting in 1943-1945. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.49 square miles (19.40 km2), of which 7.37 square miles (19.09 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water. Pratt is positioned approximately eighty miles west of Wichita.
Climate data for Pratt, Kansas (1981 2010) As of the census of 2010, there were 6,835 citizens , 2,837 homeholds, and 1,713 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 93.3% White, 1.5% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 2.3% from other competitions, and 2.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,837 homeholds of which 27.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.4% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.6% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 39 years.
22.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 12% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21% were from 25 to 44; 25.2% were from 45 to 64; and 19.5% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,570 citizens , 2,839 homeholds, and 1,780 families residing in the city.
There were 3,312 housing units at an average density of 446.6 per square mile (172.3/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 94.87% White, 1.00% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.95% from other competitions, and 1.13% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,839 homeholds out of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.3% were non-families.
34.1% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 20.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $33,646, and the median income for a family was $42,412.
About 7.1% of families and 10.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 12.8% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.
Pratt County Courthouse, 2009 Pratt Presbyterian Church, 2009 The Pratt Tribune Pratt is served by Unified School District 382 and Unified School District 438 Pratt High School (grades 9-12) Pratt Community College.
Theodore Bagwell lies low in a Pratt bar in "The Killing Box", an episode of the tv series Prison Break.
In Stephen King's "The Stand", Nick Andros and Tom Cullen encounter the cruel, vicious and promiscuous Julie Lawry at Pratt.
See also: List of Pratt Community College notable citizens a b "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
City of Pratt, Kansas Web Site, 2008, retrieved September 11, 2009 a b Pratt Chamber of Congress, retrieved August 24, 2009 "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961".
"Pratt County, National and State Registers of Historic Places".
Miss Kansas Pageant Pratt High School History of the State of Kansas; William G.
Kansas : A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc; 3 Volumes; Frank W.
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