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- Title
Kansas "Dis-centers": The Competition to Claim Ownership of the Center of the Nation.
- Authors
Stone, Jeffrey P.
- Abstract
The article talks about findings by surveying and engineering services company Wilson and Company and surveying engineer Lester T. Hagadom stating the geographic center of the U.S. was located a few miles northwest of the Kansas town on Lebanon. Topics discussed include calculations of the position of the national geographic center by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS), the development of city identities ssociated with a unique location, and he topic of place-oriented identities.
- Subjects
LEBANON (Kan.); UNITED States; SURVEYING (Engineering); WILSON &; Co. Inc.; HAGADOM, Lester T.; U.S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey
- Publication
Kansas History, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0149-9114
- Publication type
Article