Turtle In A Stock Pond, Comanche County, Kansas. Photo by Bobbi (Hackney) Huck.
Each of the links on this page will open a new window. Close the new window to return to this page. These links were last verified 13 Aug 2006. If you find a dead link or know of a good link for this list, please let me know. Jerry Ferrin
- Tasha Maloney, performer, songwriter and recording artist from Comanche County, Kanasas.
- Comanche County Obituaries at KSGenWeb Shirley Brier, one of this site's major contributors, has also transcribed and contributed over 700 obituaries from local newspapers for the The Digital Library of the KSGenWeb! This is a GREAT research resource!
- Photos from Comanche County, Kansas - Kansas Geological Survey.
- Data from Comanche County - Kansas Geological Survey
- Comanche County, Kansas, 2-day Weather Forecast Current weather forecasts and a link to a current radar weather map of the area from The National Weather Service at Dodge City, Kansas.
- 3K8 - COMANCHE COUNTY AIRPORT COLDWATER, KS Airport information, current as of 03 August 2006.
- Railroads in Comanche County, Ks. The Wilmore Depot building was moved to Bucklin, Ks, and is a tourist attraction there today.
- Economic Impacts of Railroad Abandonment On Rural Kansas Communities Final Report, July 2003.
- Brandee Cattle Comanche County, Kansas, has been known since earliest days for cattle operations. Brandee Cattle is owned by Ronn Lytle, who is descended from one of the original Comanche Pool cowboys.
- Comanche County, Ks, the Blue Skyways page.
- Cindi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Kansas This is the mother of all link lists on the topic.
- KGS Online Catalog Includes listings of historical records for Comanche County, Ks, held by the KGS.
- 1992 Census of Agriculture, Comanche County, Ks. Statistics on farming in the county.
- The Okie Legacy This is an excellent site which has information about Woods County, Oklahoma, which borders Comanche County, Kansas, on the south.
- The Kansas State Historical Society
- Protection, Kansas A Blue Skyways page.
- Wilmore, Kansas A Blue Skyways page.
- Kansas State Board of Agriculture First Biennial Report, 1878. The site includes this 1878 map of Comanche County, Ks from the report.
- Bar Graphs from the Kansas Statistical Abstract Historical Archive This form allows you to generate bar charts of county level data from the archive of the Kansas Statistical Abstract.
- Barbed Wire "During the 1960s, the Lane Myers Company of Protection, Comanche County, Kansas was the leading supplier of concertina entanglement wire used on U. S. Army Engineer installations worldwide. Concertina wire is basically thick, heavy barbed wire. The barbs are close together and the wire is manufactured to curl, making it unsatisfactory for fencing."
- The Comanche County Historical Museum This page has a photo of the Stan Herd mural on the museum wall & operating hours of the museum.
- Comanche Indians The Handbook of Texas Online article on the Comanche Indians is an excellent essay on the tribe.
- Caves in Comanche County, Ks "There are over 235 known caves on private land in southeast Comanche County. They are in the northern part of the Permian Basin, a geological formation which includes Carlsbad Caverns and Alabaster Caverns. Groups come to this area to study the bat caves. One cave in this area once held a still which supplied bootleg whiskey to pioneers."
- Native American Seed
- Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway (U.S. 160)
- Kansas Native Plant Society "The purpose of the KNPS is to develop an awareness in our citizens of the beauty of Kansas wild-flowers, the value of their use in landscaping public areas, and their place in our ecology."
- The Inflation Calculator This page has a form which adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2005.
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, a global volunteer research association. Kathleen Gregory of Comanche County, Kansas, is a volunteer researcher for RAOGK. Visit that site to learn the RAOGK research guidelines and to find contact information for her.
- Eye Witness To History An excellent website of first-person accounts of historial events.
- Weston's Antique Apples A source for many types of apple trees once common in the USA but which are seldom found today.
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