Clearwater, Kansas

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Interstate 35 42 songs Arkansas River 8 songs

History of Clearwater

The 37th Parallel UFO Highway RoadyGoat

1970

The 37th parallel has a nickname: America's UFO Highway. Cut a line across the country at 37 degrees north latitude and you string together a wildly disproportionate number of unexplained events — strange lights, cattle mutilations, craft sightings — across Utah, Colorado, and straight into Kansas. This spot sits right on that line, just a few miles from McConnell Air Force Base outside Wichita. A lot of the Kansas reports cluster out here. One from 2011 still bugs investigators: a witness stepped outside to smoke around two in the morning and watched a self-radiating light oscillate in the sky with rapid, tight little movements that didn't match any aircraft. No sound. No running lights. Just a bright source doing geometry that shouldn't be possible. Back in the 1970s, cattle mutilation cases hit farms in Cloud County and Harvey County along this same parallel — animals found with surgical precision cuts, drained of blood, no tracks nearby, no predators that could do that kind of work. The pattern's been documented for fifty years and nobody's ever pinned down a cause. It's just the 37th. Ordinary prairie and ordinary ranch land by day. Something else after dark.

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Air Capital, Pizza Pioneers RoadyGoat

Wichita earned its 'Air Capital of the World' nickname the hard way, by actually building the planes. Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet and Stearman all took root here, and to this day a huge slice of the world's general-aviation aircraft are stamped 'made in Wichita.' But the city's other claim to fame is dinner: in 1958, brothers Dan and Frank Carney borrowed six hundred dollars from their mother and opened the first Pizza Hut in a tiny rented building on the corner of Bluff and Kellogg. The hut-like roof and a sign with room for only eight letters gave the chain its name. Within a year they had six more shops; within a couple decades it was the biggest pizza chain on earth. (That original building was later moved to the Wichita State campus, where it's now a small museum.) Wings overhead, pizza on the ground.

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Satellite Tornadoes: the Dance at Ground Level RoadyGoat

1955

The textbook Fujiwhara effect is a big-storm phenomenon, hurricanes and typhoons circling each other out over the ocean. But out here over the plains, the same dance sometimes shrinks all the way down to the ground. It is called a satellite tornado: a smaller, separate twister that forms near a large tornado and begins to orbit around it, both of them feeding off the same rotating thunderstorm overhead. The little one swings around the big one counterclockwise, holding a gap of anywhere from half a mile to a few miles, exactly the way two cyclones circle a shared center. Storm researchers literally call this a binary, or Fujiwhara, interaction. It is one of the eeriest things a storm chaser can witness in Tornado Alley: not one funnel, but two, waltzing across an open field.

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Carrie Nation: The Hatchet and the Saloon

1900

On December 27, 1900, temperance crusader Carrie Nation stormed into the Carey Hotel bar in Wichita declaring herself the right arm of God, launching her nationally famous hatchet-wielding campaign against saloons.

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Wichita: Air Capital of the World

1920

Wichita earned the title Air Capital of the World after becoming home to Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet, and Stearman, producing more aircraft than any other city in the world.

15.9 mi away

Chisholm Trail: The Road That Built the Cattle Kingdom

1867

Wichita served as a major railhead on the Chisholm Trail, where millions of Texas longhorns were driven north to Kansas cattle towns and shipped east by rail.

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Things to Do in Clearwater

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White Castle (Original)

The first fast food hamburger chain opened in 1921 in Wichita KS. Sliders started here.

Everything Near Clearwater

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