The state of Kansas has chosen many different things for official symbols,
including a variety of animals and plants.
Click on the pictures above to learn more about each one!

Kansas also has a state soil, the Harney Silt Loam,
which covers 4 million acres of the western part of the state. 
To learn more about it, click here
(This is a 68K pdf file created by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.)

For a complete list of Kansas state symbols,
go to the Kansas State Library web site.

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Or write us at: 
Great Plains Nature Center
6232 E. 29th Street North
Wichita, KS 67220-2200             Call:  316-683-5499            Fax:  316-688-9555