Topeka, Kansas

Everything Topeka is known for

6 songs mention this city 30 artists from here

Topeka, Kansas, the state capital, boasts a notable musical heritage with 30 artists calling it home and 6 songs mentioning the city. Among its well-known musical exports is the rock band Kansas, formed in Topeka in 1973, which gained popularity in the 1970s with hits like "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". Another artist from Topeka is Kerry Livgren, a founding member and primary songwriter for Kansas. The city's musical connections also extend to songs like "Topeka" by Ludo and "One's on the Way" by Loretta Lynn.

Music in Topeka

Songs About Topeka

One's on the Way
Loretta Lynn
85%
"But here in Topeka, the rain is a-fallin'"
Topeka
Ludo
85%
"Song about Topeka, KS"
One’s on the Way
Loretta Lynn
55%
"But here in Topeka, the rain is a-falling"
Sweet Amarillo
Old Crow Medicine Show
49%
"When I got to Topeka I looked up your name"
Wichita Ain’t so Far Away
The Delines
25%
"And Topeca and to me"
Tacoma
Caitlyn Smith
5%
"Might leave some tears in Topeka"

Artists From Topeka

K
Kansas
rock Pop: 66
O
Origin
metal Pop: 55
T
The Billions
indie Pop: 41
D
Diskreet
electronic Pop: 36
K
Kerry Livgren
rock Pop: 34
U
Unmerciful
metal Pop: 34
K
Katrina Leskanich
rock Pop: 31
A
Alan Clark
rock Pop: 28
A
Andy McKee
folk Pop: 28
J
Jamshied Sharifi
electronic Pop: 27
G
Gatemouth Moore
blues Pop: 21
G
George Wettling
jazz Pop: 16
T
The Morning Dew
rock Pop: 14
T
The Primetime Heroes
rock Pop: 14
E
Eric Bikales
electronic Pop: 13
K
Kliph Scurlock
indie Pop: 13
B
Brown Bannister
gospel Pop: 11
J
Jeremy Turner
metal Pop: 9
P
Proto Kaw
rock Pop: 1
R
Reedukay
r-n-b Pop: 1

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Topeka

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Topeka.

U.S. Route 59 3 songs Interstate 35 27 songs

History of Topeka

Capital on the Kaw RoadyGoat

Topeka is Kansas's capital, planted on the banks of the Kansas River — the 'Kaw' — where the tallgrass prairie rolls up to the edge of town. Its limestone Statehouse, decades in the building, is one of the few capitols whose copper dome you can climb on a guided tour, up a tight interior stair to an outdoor balcony with the whole prairie city spread below. The building is also a gallery: muralist John Steuart Curry covered its walls with thundering scenes of Kansas weather and frontier life — prairie fires, tornadoes, pioneers pushing west. A short drive away, the Mulvane Art Museum, opened in 1924, ranks among the oldest art museums west of the Mississippi, and Gage Park spins a beautifully hand-carved carousel dating to 1908. Railroad town, prairie capital, and quietly arty — Topeka rewards a slow look.

The Hoyt Bigfoot Sighting (BFRO #78502) RoadyGoat

2025

On March 24, 2025, at dusk, two people were driving a Razor slowly down a rural road out here — about twelve miles north of Topeka near Hoyt — when one of them looked off into an open field and saw something walking. It was tall. Bipedal. Dark hair. Broad shoulders. Moving steadily toward a grove of trees with a fluid stride that didn't look quite right. At closest approach, they were maybe sixty yards from it. They stopped, killed the engine, and tried calling out. The thing noticed. It turned its head and upper body toward them in a motion they both described as unnatural — wrong shoulders, wrong neck. Then it kept going. They drove to the next crossroads to circle back for a better look, but by the time they came around, it had vanished near the tree line about 360 meters out. A landfill sits roughly two miles south. Everything else is farmland and woods. They filed the report with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization as number 78502, complete with sketches of the posture and the strange turning motion. BFRO classified it as Class A — the highest category, meaning the investigator believed the witnesses were credible and the sighting conditions clean. There's no marker out here. No trail. Just a county road, some fields, and whatever walks across them when nobody's looking.

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Everything Near Topeka

8 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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