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Scranton, Kansas



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Fair
Temperature: 30.9 °F

Humidity: 71 %
Wind Speed: 5 mph NNE
Pressure: 29.76 "

Dew Point: 23 °F
Gusts: 15 mph NW
Rain Today: 0.00 "





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  • Scranton News
    Local news for Scranton, KS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

    • US-75 crash injures woman

      A Scranton woman was critically injured Monday night in a head-on crash on US-75 highway just south of the US-56 highway junction, authorities said.

    • Grain Cars Slip off Tracks in Scranton

      Two grain cars slid off the railroad tracks in Scranton Thursday night. It happened around 8pm.

    • Jurors ask to hear testimony again in Morgan case

      Douglas County District Court jurors will listen today to a readback of all the testimony by defendant Ramona Morgan, who is on trial on charges she killed highway workers Tyrone T. Korte, 30, of Seneca, and ...

    • Motion to dismiss denied in Morgan trial

      Douglas County jurors, who will decide whether Ramona Morgan murdered two highway workers in September, will see the pickup truck she drove that day, a judge ruled Thursday.

    • One man's trash is this man's art

      When Terry Miles looks at a rusty disk or shovel for sale at an auction, he doesn't see useless farm tools or equipment.

    • Stories from the heart

      Cherisa Dulin Williams wrote a few plays in high school and for Easter and Christmas services at his father's church when she was younger.

    • Storm Photos

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  • City Description

    Scranton is a city in Osage County, Kansas, United States. The population was 724 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Topeka, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Scranton is located at 38°46′46″N 95°44′17″W / 38.77944, -95.73806 (38.779307, -95.737918). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²), of which, 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²) of it is land and 0.93% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 724 people, 263 households, and 181 families residing in the city. The population density was 675.3 people per square mile (261.3/km²). There were 289 housing units at an average density of 269.6/sq mi (104.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.44% White, 0.83% African American, 0.69% Native American, 0.14% Asian, and 2.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.52% of the population. There were 263 households out of which 35.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.2% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.9% had someone living alone

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    City Contained By:

    • Osage County
    • Kansas

    Timezones:

    • Central Time zone

    Size:

    • 2.84898692137 km squared

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