New Strawn, Kansas

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• Washburn graduates
  

  Washburn graduates Students from this area who graduated in the fall of 2008 from Washburn University and participated in Fridaya s fall commencement exercises were: Kody Johnson, bachelora s degree in law ...

• 80-year-old hurt when truck slides into ditch
  

  An 80-year-old Waverly was injured Wednesday morning when the truck he was driving rolled into a ditch after sliding on a patch of ice The Kansas Highway Patrol said Kenneth R. Hansell was northbound on US-75 ...

• KU student researcher braves Antarctic chill to gauge ice thickness
  

  It will be freezing and desolate. But the West Antarctic ice sheet holds scientific mysteries that University of Kansas graduate student Anthony Hoch hopes to solve.

• Woman Hurt In Crash At Railroad Tracks
  

  A Kansas woman is recovering after she was involved in an accident near railroad tracks.

• Woman hurt in Neosho Rapids accident
  

  A New Strawn woman was injured Thursday morning when her car overturned after hitting some railroad tracks.

• New Strawn woman hurt in Lyon Co. accident
  

  A New Strawn woman was injured this morning when her car overturned after hitting some railroad tracks.

• Two teens injured in Coffey County accident
  

  Two teenagers were injured Sunday night when the vehicle they were in overturned on a Coffey County road.

• Grants to area towns encourage use of Recycled Automobile tires
  

  Nearly $700,000 in tire-recycling grants were distributed across Kansas by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, including several local towns and cities.

• KU to host about 350 high school seniors for Sunflower Girls State June 1-6
  

  About 350 high school seniors-to-be from throughout Kansas are expected to attend the 66th annual American Legion Auxiliary Kansas Sunflower Girls State June 1-6 at the University of Kansas.

• Americus News
  

  All vendors are welcome and will be responsible for their own activities and sales.

City Description

New Strawn is a city in Coffey County, Kansas, United States. The population was 425 at the 2000 census. The town of New Strawn came about when John Redmond Reservoir was built, causing the original town of Strawn to be covered with water. The old city of Strawn remains under the reservoir. New Strawn is noted in the area for the top-notch fishing in its city lake, and for its professional grade, choreographed, Fourth of July Fireworks show. An excellent history of "Old Strawn", which was relocated to the site of New Strawn, was written by Mary Lou DeLong Atherly; it is titled "Yesterday's Tomorrow: A History of Strawn, Kansas & Surrounding Territory", and is available through the Coffey County Museum in Burlington. New Strawn is located at 38°15′46″N 95°44′28″W / 38.26278, -95.74111 (38.262828, -95.741125). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), of which, 0.9 square miles (2.2 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (4.49%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 425 people, 150 households, and 120 families residing in the city. The population density was 496.9 people per square mile

City Contained By:

• United States
• Kansas
• Coffey County

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 2.3309892993 km squared

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