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Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 09:28:13 AM
Obviously coffeyville is the grossest and most depressing (my best bro played there with Brendan Jacobs and they would drive to Tulsa and go to hooters 3 times a week, so Tulsa hooters > coffeyville and that was before they coated the town in oily flood waters).

So we're looking for second place nominations here. Or maybe first place for the "coffeyville trophy" and we'll just assume coffeyville itself is hanging in the rafters.

And let's think about qualifications. For instance, no coop towns that have nothing but elevators and a post office. To be really depressing and gross, there needs to be a depressing amount of sad gross people living there. Community colleges are obviously a plus, as are hotels with no discernible reason for existing (I'm looking at you, Fredonia).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:32:16 AM
Topeka has got to be top 5. Also, Great Bend and Pratt both seem pretty depressing, but they could be better than I am giving them credit for . . . :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 09:33:19 AM
ogden
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 09:33:46 AM
Russel is rough ridin' disgusting to drive through.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 09:35:17 AM
colby.

I'm still traumatized from a childhood visit to the giant groundhog and mutated deformed farm animal zoo tourist trap.
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: billyzabka on December 18, 2012, 09:37:06 AM
colby.

I'm still traumatized from a childhood visit to the giant groundhog and mutated deformed farm animal zoo tourist trap.

That's Oakley.

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 09:38:11 AM
Obviously coffeyville is the grossest and most depressing (my best bro played there with Brendan Jacobs and they would drive to Tulsa and go to hooters 3 times a week, so Tulsa hooters > coffeyville and that was before they coated the town in oily flood waters).

So we're looking for second place nominations here. Or maybe first place for the "coffeyville trophy" and we'll just assume coffeyville itself is hanging in the rafters.

And let's think about qualifications. For instance, no coop towns that have nothing but elevators and a post office. To be really depressing and gross, there needs to be a depressing amount of sad gross people living there. Community colleges are obviously a plus, as are hotels with no discernible reason for existing (I'm looking at you, Fredonia).

 :dubious:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bigwillie20 on December 18, 2012, 09:38:17 AM
Could just pretty much throw a dart at anything in western KS

sorry sd  :peek:
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 09:38:23 AM
colby.

I'm still traumatized from a childhood visit to the giant groundhog and mutated deformed farm animal zoo tourist trap.

That's Oakley.

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Is that like a suburb of Colby?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:39:54 AM
Colby wasn't that great, but it was much nicer than I expected. It's not even on the same level as Coffeyville. Galena gives Coffeyville a run for the money. It's very run-down.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 09:41:53 AM
Great Bend isn't terrible, but there are definantly parts of it that are deteriorating.  Pratt just seems like a normal, small town.

I haven't been there for awhile, but Hugoton?   :dunno:  There were alot of people there in the early 2000s tied to natural gas industry, who invested most of their retirement in their companies, they lost it all.  Also, there was a crap ton of drugs/meth there.  I once saw a map of kansas where a red dot was randomly placed within a county for every meth lab found there.  In SW Kansas it was mostly clear, except for Stevens county, which was completely red. 

Also, Ark City always seems like a shithole when I drive through there.   
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 09:42:16 AM
I vote for Garden City.  It smells.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:42:51 AM
Could just pretty much throw a dart at anything in western KS

sorry sd  :peek:

Western KS towns are boring, but I haven't been to one that would crack my top 5. Maybe Liberal, but I haven't spent enough time there to be sure.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 09:44:47 AM
Holcomb? They murder families there. Leoti? Home of Steve Tasker?
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 09:47:23 AM
Galena and Ark City are excellent nominations. But we need some descriptors with these nominations. Also, ignore Mrs Gooch. She was raised on oil water sno cones at the fair and shopped at homeland as a child.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 09:48:17 AM
Holcomb? They murder families there. Leoti? Home of Steve Tasker?

I once dated the Tasker family's babysitter #fanningbrag
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:48:48 AM
Great Bend isn't terrible, but there are definantly parts of it that are deteriorating.  Pratt just seems like a normal, small town.

I haven't been there for awhile, but Hugoton?   :dunno:  There were alot of people there in the early 2000s tied to natural gas industry, who invested most of their retirement in their companies, they lost it all.  Also, there was a crap ton of drugs/meth there.  I once saw a map of kansas where a red dot was randomly placed within a county for every meth lab found there.  In SW Kansas it was mostly clear, except for Stevens county, which was completely red. 

Also, Ark City always seems like a shithole when I drive through there.

I don't know much about Western Kansas, but Hugoton really seems to be on the up and up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 09:48:54 AM
Galena is too small to be considered.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 09:49:15 AM
Holcomb? They murder families there. Leoti? Home of Steve Tasker?

I once dated the Tasker family's babysitter #fanningbrag
:thumbs:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 09:50:21 AM
I'll be honest, I've always hated Tonganoxie.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 09:50:40 AM
Galena is too small to be considered.

That's a shame. The chat piles and sink holes were strong talking points. But there's also a Sonic!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWican on December 18, 2012, 09:51:35 AM
Junction City/Junc Town
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:53:34 AM
Galena has lead-contaminated water. There was talk a few years ago of the government condemning the entire city due to public safety concerns. I played high school sports against them and they were always smelly, gross, and horrible at everything they do (I guess they are good at football now, though???). There is a strip club just outside of the city limits that probably accounts for about 50% of the city's economy. It might be a small city, but it's a real crap hole. Most people say small towns suck because they are boring, but Galena sucks because it is boring and just plain awful as well.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on December 18, 2012, 09:55:35 AM
Junction City

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on December 18, 2012, 09:56:56 AM
Junction City has several ethnic restaurants, so it's hard for me to include them
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 09:57:19 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 09:57:55 AM
I've got a story for every town in this thread that is west of I-35.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 10:01:34 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

This.

South Coffeyville, OK is a real crap hole.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 10:07:16 AM
I give OK a pass because of all the casinos.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 18, 2012, 10:09:54 AM
It's Ogden, guys.
Title: Re: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: billyzabka on December 18, 2012, 10:12:17 AM
colby.

I'm still traumatized from a childhood visit to the giant groundhog and mutated deformed farm animal zoo tourist trap.

That's Oakley.

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Is that like a suburb of Colby?

Pretty much. Colby has a walmart so all the towns within 30 miles are suburbs by default.

Also, Oakley > Goodland, Colby > Goodland
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 18, 2012, 10:25:32 AM
St. Mary's
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 10:28:24 AM
yeah. st marys is really bad. so is ogden. as far as northeast/northcentral kansas goes, you'd probably have hiawatha as your leader. maybe we should break the state up into quadrants or something and come up with the worst towns in that quadrant and then put them in a bracket and vote this thing out.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 10:29:15 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on December 18, 2012, 10:31:08 AM
I vote for Garden City.  It smells.

i'm going to kill you
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on December 18, 2012, 10:31:36 AM
Holcomb? They murder families there. Leoti? Home of Steve Tasker?

I once lived across the street from the murder house in those shitty apartments  #fanningbrag
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on December 18, 2012, 10:32:46 AM
and the answer is Liberal.  They have nothing to offer there.  NOTHING.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 10:33:30 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

Not Marysville, bro.

St. Marys has the excommunicated catholic cult HQ that refuses to play games with women refs.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 10:34:48 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

Not Marysville, bro.

St. Marys has the excommunicated catholic cult HQ that refuses to play games with women refs.

Oh, ok.  eff them then
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 10:35:27 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 10:39:34 AM
I vote for Garden City.  It smells.

i'm going to kill you

I've heard that it's the smell of money.  Smells more like decaying cows and manure to me.
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: billyzabka on December 18, 2012, 10:40:03 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 10:41:18 AM
Someone told me that Chanute was the worst, but I don't know anything about it to make a case.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 10:43:47 AM
Someone told me that Chanute was the worst, but I don't know anything about it to make a case.

Chanute is basically the equivalent of Parsons. Both are run-down, semi-depressing towns, but they are both paradise compared to Coffeyville, Galena, and even Baxter Springs.
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 10:46:33 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down

too mall to be considered imo. we really need some rules here.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 10:49:17 AM
Having not gone to HS in Colorado, I know very few shitty towns.  I just pick the good ones to go to.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 10:49:23 AM
LUCAS, KANSAS

Home of the Garden of Eden and the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.

an absolutely traumatizing experience. probably worth it's own thread.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 10:49:40 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

I've been thinking about worst cities in KS for the last 10 minutes.  Everytime I think I have a good one, I realize it's in Oklahoma. 

There is a fine line between the enjoyment of taking their money and realizing that I have to live amongst them. 
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 10:50:18 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down

too mall to be considered imo. we really need some rules here.

I don't think the rules should include the size of the city, but if you make a suggestion, you should have something to back it up, like the environmental disasters in Galena, the redneck oil town in Coffeyville, the crime in Topeka, etc. Just saying some hayseed town because it's boring or something is not going to be enough to win the competition.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: AppleJack on December 18, 2012, 10:50:36 AM
Scott City.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 10:51:56 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

I've been thinking about worst cities in KS for the last 10 minutes.  Everytime I think I have a good one, I realize it's in Oklahoma. 

There is a fine line between the enjoyment of taking their money and realizing that I have to live amongst them.

Not only that, but the frontrunners for worst city in Kansas are all located within 15 minutes of the Oklahoma State line. The exception is Topeka, but I don't really think Topeka has a shot at winning.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 10:53:00 AM
Scott City.
Take it back you bad person.  :shakesfist: I use to be the voice of the beavers.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 10:54:13 AM
Scott City is nowhere close to worst at this time, but they are definitely headed that direction and might get there in about 20 years.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 11:00:57 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

I've been thinking about worst cities in KS for the last 10 minutes.  Everytime I think I have a good one, I realize it's in Oklahoma. 

There is a fine line between the enjoyment of taking their money and realizing that I have to live amongst them.

Not only that, but the frontrunners for worst city in Kansas are all located within 15 minutes of the Oklahoma State line. The exception is Topeka, but I don't really think Topeka has a shot at winning.

There is a reason for that.  It's because a lot of those towns were built on oil/natural gas money, just like a lot of the towns just across the border in Oklahoma.  The cyclical nature of that industry just kills towns that aren't diverse in income streams.  Hugoton was going down that path 10 years ago and I don't know if they got out of it.  Also, oil is dirty.  Oil workers are always covered in it.  Their vehicles are covered in it.  Pretty soon the town is covered in it and it just becomes the norm.

See why Gooch says Coffeyville is a crap hole.  It goes back to oil. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:04:05 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

I've been thinking about worst cities in KS for the last 10 minutes.  Everytime I think I have a good one, I realize it's in Oklahoma. 

There is a fine line between the enjoyment of taking their money and realizing that I have to live amongst them.

Not only that, but the frontrunners for worst city in Kansas are all located within 15 minutes of the Oklahoma State line. The exception is Topeka, but I don't really think Topeka has a shot at winning.

There is a reason for that.  It's because a lot of those towns were built on oil/natural gas money, just like a lot of the towns just across the border in Oklahoma.  The cyclical nature of that industry just kills towns that aren't diverse in income streams.  Hugoton was going down that path 10 years ago and I don't know if they got out of it.

They just got a brand new ethanol facility, so I believe things are looking up. I've only spent a couple of hours there, but it seemed way too nice to be in the running for this competition. Washed up mining towns are worse than washed up oil and gas towns because they have the same kind of economic devastation, plus major drinking water issues and safety concerns due to sink holes.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 11:06:34 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

This.

South Coffeyville, OK is a real crap hole.

Oh man. A lot of Sale Barn/Sunday beer envy in this post.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:08:09 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

This.

South Coffeyville, OK is a real crap hole.

Oh man. A lot of Sale Barn/Sunday beer envy in this post.

 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 11:10:22 AM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

This.

South Coffeyville, OK is a real crap hole.

Oh man. A lot of Sale Barn/Sunday beer envy in this post.

People have been known to drive all the way from Coffeyville to get cheaper cigarettes also. But then they complain because the new Walmarts is all the way on the outskirts of town, so it takes a whole 5 minutes to get there.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 11:10:39 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down

too mall to be considered imo. we really need some rules here.

I don't think the rules should include the size of the city, but if you make a suggestion, you should have something to back it up, like the environmental disasters in Galena, the redneck oil town in Coffeyville, the crime in Topeka, etc. Just saying some hayseed town because it's boring or something is not going to be enough to win the competition.

Yes. Excellent baseline. Also, since I'm the only official judge, it helps if I know the town. If I don't, your description of its gross/depressing nature better be detailed and include metaphors and similes and maybe some anthropomorphization.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: AppleJack on December 18, 2012, 11:11:41 AM
Scott City.
Take it back you bad person.  :shakesfist: I use to be the voice of the beavers.

Let the record show I've only been there once and it was for the wifes grandmas funeral. My only memory was how rough ridin' windy it was. That is the reason for my vote and I'm sure you will agree now.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 11:12:01 AM
I'm glad nobody mentioned my hometown. I'm not surprised though, Moran is a lovely little town.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:20:03 AM
IMO, the people of SE KS are the absolute worst.  Have a good friend from down there, an attorney, like a good and moral and ethical person, but oh man if I don't want to do something he wants to do it's "you fuckin pussy!  you fuckin man of taste and distinction!"  over and over again.  It's like SE KS talk.

Well, due to its proximity to Oklahoma and Missouri, there is quite a bit of demographic spill-over. There is never a shortage of Busch Light, Mountain Dew, and methamphetamine. That said, while there is a ton of white trash, those people are still in the minority and your friend is probably just an bad person.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kitten_mittons on December 18, 2012, 11:22:56 AM
Was Leavenworth disqualified for being too easy of a choice or something?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 11:23:16 AM
IMO, the people of SE KS are the absolute worst.  Have a good friend from down there, an attorney, like a good and moral and ethical person, but oh man if I don't want to do something he wants to do it's "you fuckin pussy!  you fuckin man of taste and distinction!"  over and over again.  It's like SE KS talk.

Well, due to its proximity to Oklahoma and Missouri, there is quite a bit of demographic spill-over. There is never a shortage of Busch Light, Mountain Dew, and methamphetamine. That said, while there is a ton of white trash, those people are still in the minority and your friend is probably just an bad person.

That's all isolated, small towns.  I went to Fort Hays for 2 years and this is all I heard from people from places like Jetmore.  Also, I remember amongst those people "Jewish" was the most derogatory term you could call something.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:25:45 AM
IMO, the people of SE KS are the absolute worst.  Have a good friend from down there, an attorney, like a good and moral and ethical person, but oh man if I don't want to do something he wants to do it's "you fuckin pussy!  you fuckin man of taste and distinction!"  over and over again.  It's like SE KS talk.

Well, due to its proximity to Oklahoma and Missouri, there is quite a bit of demographic spill-over. There is never a shortage of Busch Light, Mountain Dew, and methamphetamine. That said, while there is a ton of white trash, those people are still in the minority and your friend is probably just an bad person.

That's all isolated, small towns.  I went to Fort Hays for 2 years and this is all I heard from people from places like Jetmore.  Also, I remember amongst those people "Jewish" was the most derogatory term you could call something.

 :sdeek:

Jetmore seems pretty awful, but my only experience there was stopping to get gas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 11:27:11 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down

too mall to be considered imo. we really need some rules here.

I don't think the rules should include the size of the city, but if you make a suggestion, you should have something to back it up, like the environmental disasters in Galena, the redneck oil town in Coffeyville, the crime in Topeka, etc. Just saying some hayseed town because it's boring or something is not going to be enough to win the competition.

Yes. Excellent baseline. Also, since I'm the only official judge, it helps if I know the town. If I don't, your description of its gross/depressing nature better be detailed and include metaphors and similes and maybe some anthropomorphization.

% of townspeople on medicaid would be a pretty good indicator of good vs bad town. st marys and hiawath= very high.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on December 18, 2012, 11:27:22 AM
Obviously coffeyville is the grossest and most depressing (my best bro played there with Brendan Jacobs and they would drive to Tulsa and go to hooters 3 times a week, so Tulsa hooters > coffeyville and that was before they coated the town in oily flood waters).

So we're looking for second place nominations here. Or maybe first place for the "coffeyville trophy" and we'll just assume coffeyville itself is hanging in the rafters.

And let's think about qualifications. For instance, no coop towns that have nothing but elevators and a post office. To be really depressing and gross, there needs to be a depressing amount of sad gross people living there. Community colleges are obviously a plus, as are hotels with no discernible reason for existing (I'm looking at you, Fredonia).

 :dubious:
:lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 11:28:13 AM
Scott City.
Take it back you bad person.  :shakesfist: I use to be the voice of the beavers.

Let the record show I've only been there once and it was for the wifes grandmas funeral. My only memory was how rough ridin' windy it was. That is the reason for my vote and I'm sure you will agree now.
Yeah, SW Kansas is windy in general. I hate wind too. I like to run outside and it really ruins the experience.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on December 18, 2012, 11:32:27 AM
yeah. st marys is really bad. so is ogden. as far as northeast/northcentral kansas goes, you'd probably have hiawatha as your leader. maybe we should break the state up into quadrants or something and come up with the worst towns in that quadrant and then put them in a bracket and vote this thing out.

I am irrationally biased to like Hiawatha, so...  :shakesfist:

...although I can't make a good argument in favor of it.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 11:34:54 AM
yeah. st marys is really bad. so is ogden. as far as northeast/northcentral kansas goes, you'd probably have hiawatha as your leader. maybe we should break the state up into quadrants or something and come up with the worst towns in that quadrant and then put them in a bracket and vote this thing out.

I am irrationally biased to like Hiawatha, so...  :shakesfist:

...although I can't make a good argument in favor of it.

when you compare it to similar sized towns within an hour of it, it's easily the worst. like hands down. sorry gosp. hiawatha makes sabetha look like san diego.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on December 18, 2012, 11:40:05 AM
Have a squawk friend from Hiawatha and spent the 4th of July there this year. Did not think it was that terrible. :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 0.42 on December 18, 2012, 11:44:10 AM
Baxter Springs. It's right next to what's basically the worst Superfund site and ghost town in America (Picher, OK). Everyone who lives in Baxter Springs is going to turn into The Flood within 20 years.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:45:27 AM
Pffft, St. Mary's is the black squirrel capital of the world.  If it was so bad, why would so many squirrels hang out there?

you're thinking about marysville. sheesh, the guy lives in colorado for a year and he can't even tell the difference between st marys and marysville anymore. go start a colorado thread. hint... it's either canon city, la junta or trinidad.

Cheyenne Wells. Hands down

too mall to be considered imo. we really need some rules here.

I don't think the rules should include the size of the city, but if you make a suggestion, you should have something to back it up, like the environmental disasters in Galena, the redneck oil town in Coffeyville, the crime in Topeka, etc. Just saying some hayseed town because it's boring or something is not going to be enough to win the competition.

Yes. Excellent baseline. Also, since I'm the only official judge, it helps if I know the town. If I don't, your description of its gross/depressing nature better be detailed and include metaphors and similes and maybe some anthropomorphization.

% of townspeople on medicaid would be a pretty good indicator of good vs bad town. st marys and hiawath= very high.

I'm not sure where to find that information, but a quick comparison of demographics between St. Mary's and Galena paints St. Mary's in a very favorable light.

St. Mary's (http://www.city-data.com/city/St.-Marys-Kansas.html)

Galena (http://www.city-data.com/city/Galena-Kansas.html)

The median home value in Galena is only $50,000 and the median income is under $30,000.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 11:50:55 AM
LUCAS, KANSAS

Home of the Garden of Eden and the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.

an absolutely traumatizing experience. probably worth it's own thread.
Lucas is awesome
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on December 18, 2012, 11:52:07 AM
LUCAS, KANSAS

Home of the Garden of Eden and the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.

an absolutely traumatizing experience. probably worth it's own thread.
[/quotelucas is awesome]


Nope. Strickly based off of the amazing bacon you can get from Brandtz meat locker.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 11:55:18 AM
Baxter Springs. It's right next to what's basically the worst Superfund site and ghost town in America (Picher, OK). Everyone who lives in Baxter Springs is going to turn into The Flood within 20 years.

Would you rather live next to a Superfund site on one, though?

http://www.engg.ksu.edu/chsr/outreach/tosc/sites/galena.html (http://www.engg.ksu.edu/chsr/outreach/tosc/sites/galena.html)

Here is a picture of the Galena Superfund site.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoXGnffE4uXIkoOS1EmY1OzovhMjPuP0nlFcSWVYeNKZwWRSySPmC9O4Xk)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 11:58:52 AM
Have a squawk friend from Hiawatha and spent the 4th of July there this year. Did not think it was that terrible. :dunno:

You married someone from Coffeyville.  I question your judgment
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 12:01:59 PM
Galena is playing its way right back into this thing.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 12:02:21 PM
Have a squawk friend from Hiawatha and spent the 4th of July there this year. Did not think it was that terrible. :dunno:

You married someone from Coffeyville.  I question your judgment

:lol:
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 12:03:27 PM
Baxter Springs. It's right next to what's basically the worst Superfund site and ghost town in America (Picher, OK). Everyone who lives in Baxter Springs is going to turn into The Flood within 20 years.

Great little league baseball teams, though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 0.42 on December 18, 2012, 12:06:47 PM
Baxter Springs. It's right next to what's basically the worst Superfund site and ghost town in America (Picher, OK). Everyone who lives in Baxter Springs is going to turn into The Flood within 20 years.

Would you rather live next to a Superfund site on one, though?

http://www.engg.ksu.edu/chsr/outreach/tosc/sites/galena.html (http://www.engg.ksu.edu/chsr/outreach/tosc/sites/galena.html)

Here is a picture of the Galena Superfund site.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoXGnffE4uXIkoOS1EmY1OzovhMjPuP0nlFcSWVYeNKZwWRSySPmC9O4Xk)

Woof.

Baxter Springs. It's right next to what's basically the worst Superfund site and ghost town in America (Picher, OK). Everyone who lives in Baxter Springs is going to turn into The Flood within 20 years.

Great little league baseball teams, though.

All the toxins in the air make the ball travel farther.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 12:10:24 PM
One of my bros is a slumlord in Ark City.  He once bought a house there for $2,500.   :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kstate16 on December 18, 2012, 12:16:19 PM
SE KS, SW MO, and NE OK are the most depressing areas ever. no question, no doubt.  I once visited a friend at Pitt State, did not do again.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 18, 2012, 12:19:50 PM
Haven't spent much time there, but Atchison seems really awful.  According to a friend who is from there, they still have a Division Street that is the de facto split between the black and white parts of town.  Also, it smells like crap.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 12:20:17 PM
LUCAS, KANSAS

Home of the Garden of Eden and the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.

an absolutely traumatizing experience. probably worth it's own thread.
Lucas is awesome

Yes. These are both pro-Lucas talking points. If you have a post rock/barbed wire museum, that pretty much disqualifies you from the coffeyville trophy, which is named after a town whose attraction is a mildewy old condemned house built by the last literate man in town history.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ltrain on December 18, 2012, 12:20:50 PM
and the answer is Liberal.  They have nothing to offer there.  NOTHING.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: RickRampus on December 18, 2012, 12:24:09 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 12:29:05 PM
This thread would probably be more interesting if it were about the worst city in Oklahoma. Coffeyville would be one of the 10 best cities in Oklahoma.

This.

South Coffeyville, OK is a real crap hole.

Oh man. A lot of Sale Barn/Sunday beer envy in this post.

People have been known to drive all the way from Coffeyville to get cheaper cigarettes also. But then they complain because the new Walmarts is all the way on the outskirts of town, so it takes a whole 5 minutes to get there.

A population that commutes to buy cheap cigarettes is a strike against your town, not the selling town. Excellent use of Walmarts, though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SabiNation on December 18, 2012, 12:31:30 PM
Something to consider:

http://www.homesurfer.com/crimereports/view/crimereportlistranking.cfm?state=KS (http://www.homesurfer.com/crimereports/view/crimereportlistranking.cfm?state=KS)

Quote
Kansas cities ranked from worst to best for crime based on violent crime ranking:
Worst
Grandview Plaza
Leavenworth
Merriam...

...Stockton
Kechi
Goddard
Best


 :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 12:33:59 PM
Have a squawk friend from Hiawatha and spent the 4th of July there this year. Did not think it was that terrible. :dunno:

when you compare it to atchison, seneca, sabetha, holton, etc. it's the dump of the bunch. does that make it horrible? oh i don't know.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on December 18, 2012, 12:38:38 PM
Have a squawk friend from Hiawatha and spent the 4th of July there this year. Did not think it was that terrible. :dunno:

You married someone from Coffeyville.  I question your judgment
I know right?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Willesgirl on December 18, 2012, 12:44:32 PM
Hutchinson. It's depressing. It's big enough that if you grow up there, there are a few jobs so you feel almost obligated to stay. It's windy and dry and desolate. The exciting things to do in town involve visiting the Walmart and it meets the criteria of having a JUCO.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 12:58:49 PM
Hutchinson. It's depressing. It's big enough that if you grow up there, there are a few jobs so you feel almost obligated to stay. It's windy and dry and desolate. The exciting things to do in town involve visiting the Walmart and it meets the criteria of having a JUCO.

:horrorsurprise:  I am from Hutch and hate Hutch.  Then I met people at K-State from actually shitty towns that would tell me they would drive into Hutch to hang out.  Thats how bad some of these towns are.

Also, Roy's BBQ would redeem any of these towns
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWmeister on December 18, 2012, 01:07:07 PM
These places sound terrible.

 :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 01:15:57 PM
Here are the cities with the lowest livability scores in Kansas.
1.   Elwood
2.   Grandview Plaza
3.   Chetopa
4.   Galena
5.   Oaklawn-Sunview
6.   Coffeyville
7.   Horton
8.   Fort Riley North
9.   Parsons
10.   Blue Rapids
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 01:19:36 PM
Fully convinced that at least 50% of those are made up names
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on December 18, 2012, 01:21:31 PM
One of my bros is a slumlord in Ark City.  He once bought a house there for $2,500.   :lol:


I EMAT'd (Every Man A Tiger) at Cowley CC for couple of years before heading up to KSU.  Ark City is kind of dumpy and I may even have lived in your bro's slum house but Ark City couldn't really be a contender for 2nd worst town in the state.....could it??
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 01:25:58 PM
Chetopa is the Catfish Capitol of the World. Nothing there but a bunch of catfish heads on poles.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 01:28:51 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 01:29:36 PM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a custom made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 01:33:39 PM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a customer made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."

I've never been. It's demographics do indicate that it's a crap hole. Do you have any stories, like a failing high school, lead in the water making most of the population functional retards, falling down houses, etc?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on December 18, 2012, 01:36:01 PM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a customer made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."

Is that the town that is on the way from MHK to 'chita that is right by the round-a-bout that has a water tower that looks like a big cigarette??

If so, yeah, pretty shitty town.
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: billyzabka on December 18, 2012, 01:36:09 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is where Timothy McVeigh holed up just prior to the okc bombing.  Gotta add to its case for #2
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SabiNation on December 18, 2012, 01:38:46 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 18, 2012, 01:39:37 PM
St. Marys

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb352/Winters4ksu/Fire_zpsc593a7d3.jpg)
(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb352/Winters4ksu/Surplus_zps2ee9cac7.jpg)
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on December 18, 2012, 01:39:38 PM
Take it back you bad person.  :shakesfist: I use to be the voice of the beavers.

is that the second #fanningbrag in the worst towns thread?  :thumbs:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 01:42:12 PM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a customer made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."

I've never been. It's demographics do indicate that it's a crap hole. Do you have any stories, like a failing high school, lead in the water making most of the population functional retards, falling down houses, etc?
Yes, all of those things are in Horton.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on December 18, 2012, 01:42:38 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!

Yeah, i had to look it up too. Apparently its right between Beautiful Manhattan and Junctown
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 01:44:07 PM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a customer made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."

Is that the town that is on the way from MHK to 'chita that is right by the round-a-bout that has a water tower that looks like a big cigarette??

If so, yeah, pretty shitty town.
Probably, is that town really awful? If so, then it is probably Horton. (Actually, I don't think that is the same town. The town you speak of is Aspen, CO compared to Horton.)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 18, 2012, 01:45:12 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!

Lots of LMKMSAIQ in this thread.

I don't see how Ogden doesn't win this thread, btw.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 01:45:50 PM
St. Marys

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb352/Winters4ksu/Fire_zpsc593a7d3.jpg)
(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb352/Winters4ksu/Surplus_zps2ee9cac7.jpg)
At least they burn the trash and destroy crappy buildings in St. Mary's. In Horton, people live in that house and use that fire to kill the botulism.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 01:47:01 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrifying concrete shrine built by an insane old pedophile that has a mausoleum with his mummified corpse inside?
(http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/attachments/kansas/4300-lucas-kansas-garden-of-eden.jpg)

Do any of these towns have an entire museum dedicated to mutilated barbies and severed baby doll heads?

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4143/4855729222_94036c4c4f.jpg)

Maybe also a life size car made from pop tabs?

(http://www.clevermag.com/images06/spr09/Kansas/car.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 01:47:27 PM
I forgot about Parsons, it's up there. 

Parsons was home to the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant.  I did work there.  The plant property was actually larger than the town itself.  The plant was basically a bunch of shanty buildings spread out so that if something blew up, it just blew up that shanty.  Every building was built as cheaply as possible so that if it blew, then the monetary damage was minimial.  People went to work at a place that was purposely built cheap so that if they product they were working on blew up and killed/maimed them, at least their employeer was only out $15 on the facility.  These buildings looked worse than barns that were abandonded 40 years ago, only inside they made cluster bombs.

In 2005 they announced they planned to close it, and did so in 2009.  During those 4 years, the people of the town fought to keep it open.  They actually fought for the right to go to a place designed with the possibility of blowing up for $10/hour.

I don't know if the place getting closed makes it a less depressing place to live or the fact they tried to keep it open and couldn't makes it a more depressing place to live.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 01:47:36 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!

I just did a google image search on Grandview Plaza. Wow. It's awful. At least it doesn't have a high school, though. Sending your kids to school in MHK has to sort of play into its favor. That is, unless you decide to send them to Junction City instead. I would still have to hear some anecdotal evidence to believe it's worse than some of those southeastern Kansas towns.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 18, 2012, 01:48:57 PM
I've played golf in Horton a couple times.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 01:49:20 PM
I forgot about Parsons, it's up there. 

Parsons was home to the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant.  I did work there.  The plant property was actually larger than the town itself.  The plant was basically a bunch of shanty buildings spread out so that if something blew up, it just blew up that shanty.  Every building was built as cheaply as possible so that if it blew, then the monetary damage was minimial.  People went to work at a place that was purposely built cheap so that if they product they were working on blew up and killed/maimed them, at least their employeer was only out $15 on the facility.  These buildings looked worse than barns that were abandonded 40 years ago, only inside they made cluster bombs.

In 2005 they announced they planned to close it, and did so in 2009.  During those 4 years, the people of the town fought to keep it open.  They actually fought for the right to go to a place designed with the possibility of blowing up for $10/hour.

I don't know if the place getting closed makes it a less depressing place to live or the fact they tried to keep it open and couldn't makes it a more depressing place to live.

College prof once told me that Parsons was a huge mob informant relocation area.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 18, 2012, 01:50:42 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!

I just did a google image search on Grandview Plaza. Wow. It's awful. At least it doesn't have a high school, though. Sending your kids to school in MHK has to sort of play into its favor. That is, unless you decide to send them to Junction City instead. I would still have to hear some anecdotal evidence to believe it's worse than some of those southeastern Kansas towns.

It's part of the JC school district. Open a Rand Mcnally once in a while. sheesh.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 01:50:56 PM
fwiw, every town in Kansas is pretty pud, minus mhk.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 18, 2012, 01:53:15 PM
Any place i haven't heard of (60 percent of this thread).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on December 18, 2012, 01:54:43 PM
Can't believe so many folks didn't know Grandview Plaza is basically Junction...  sheesh.  Obviously not townies.

And Horton is north of MHK.  Up by Hiawatha.  Folks from Hiawatha call Horton "whore-town."  HTH.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 01:55:31 PM
Chetopa is also pretty bad, but it's no Galena. For some reason I thought it was in Oklahoma.

The only reason I could see anybody possibly considering Galena to be more livable than any other city in Kansas is that it is near Joplin, and a town like Chetopa is completely isolated. Still, on its own merits, Galena is the worst.

Grandview Plaza sounds like a trailer park to me. Are you sure that is a real city with its own government and everything?

Grandview Plaza is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,560. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

 :sdeek:

It's so bad that none of us have ever even heard of it...and it's in our own backyard!

I just did a google image search on Grandview Plaza. Wow. It's awful. At least it doesn't have a high school, though. Sending your kids to school in MHK has to sort of play into its favor. That is, unless you decide to send them to Junction City instead. I would still have to hear some anecdotal evidence to believe it's worse than some of those southeastern Kansas towns.

It's part of the JC school district. Open a Rand Mcnally once in a while. sheesh.

Grandview Plaza is basically a suburb of JC. Just the fact that it was one of the first places in the state to allow sunday liqour sales should exempt it from this list.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 01:56:04 PM
fwiw, every town in Kansas is pretty pud, minus mhk.

You could say that about most states, though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bubbles4ksu on December 18, 2012, 01:56:55 PM
My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington - Just a town on K-4
Haven- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling - Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood - Oily yet poor
Marion - Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWmeister on December 18, 2012, 01:59:07 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrifying concrete shrine built by an insane old pedophile that has a mausoleum with his mummified corpse inside?
(http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/attachments/kansas/4300-lucas-kansas-garden-of-eden.jpg)

Do any of these towns have an entire museum dedicated to mutilated barbies and severed baby doll heads?

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4143/4855729222_94036c4c4f.jpg)

Maybe also a life size car made from pop tabs?

(http://www.clevermag.com/images06/spr09/Kansas/car.jpg)

 :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 01:59:18 PM
I've played golf in Horton a couple times.
Do you still fall on your knees and cry every time you shower?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 18, 2012, 02:00:28 PM
My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington - Just a town on K-4
Haven- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling - Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood - Oily yet poor
Marion - Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.

These places are made up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 18, 2012, 02:00:57 PM
I've played golf in Horton a couple times.

ME 2! :D

regional golf tourney in high school. i did bad and felt bad.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 02:02:04 PM
I've played golf in Horton a couple times.

ME 2! :D

regional golf tourney in high school. i did bad and felt bad.
it wasn't your fault
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 02:09:01 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?

Oh man, there's an Emo EMAW story.  :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 02:09:27 PM
One of my bros is a slumlord in Ark City.  He once bought a house there for $2,500.   :lol:


I EMAT'd (Every Man A Tiger) at Cowley CC for couple of years before heading up to KSU.  Ark City is kind of dumpy and I may even have lived in your bro's slum house but Ark City couldn't really be a contender for 2nd worst town in the state.....could it??

Absolutely not a contender.  They have a brand new medical facility.  http://www.sckrmc.com/getpage.php?name=index
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bubbles4ksu on December 18, 2012, 02:09:36 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?

Oh man, there's an Emo EMAW story.  :sdeek:

do tell.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 02:16:25 PM
Yea, I vote Parsons
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 02:19:39 PM
On Bubbles post, I found something very interesting about the perception of small towns.  I listed the populations of each city in bold.

My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro 2,993: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston 3,709: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg 3,458-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate ignore: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington 2,706- Just a town on K-4
Haven 1,237- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling 2,328- Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood 2,131- Oily yet poor
Marion 1,927- Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson 1,070: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.

It appears that by Bubbles standards, a town clearly needs at least 2,900 residents for a base to create a nice place to live.  Apparently 2,900 is the magic number to have enough commerce to sustain nice stores and enough tax base for a nice, clean infrastructure.  I would also like to point out that Hoisington, with a population of 2,700 is in the middle ground and also got a middle ground response from Bubbles.  Nothing positive or negative, just "a town".

If you have a population above 2,900 and still can't get it together, then you should qualify for this "Coffeeville Shithole" award as Heston, Hillsboro, and Lindsborg have shown that is a large enough population to get your crap together.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 02:21:18 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?

Oh man, there's an Emo EMAW story.  :sdeek:

do tell.

Was there for pheasant opener.  Apparently the place (this was in still in Liberal) had just lost their license so the three strippers there were forced to dance in like bikini's.  There were two younger stripers (one white, one hispanic, both pretty dern good for Liberal) and then one older queen stripper (pretty gross and mean).  Technically the bar was a different business (for license reasons or something) than the strip club so you had to exit the strip club to buy pitchers of beer (super cheap) and then bring the pitcher back to the strip club.  When we first walked in it was packed with some hunters and then a bunch of locals of hispanic descent.  We were looking for place to sit and people got shifty and the queen stripper yelled at us to sit down and I was forced to sit in a chair that didn't have a cushion, so like my ass fell through the frame a little bit.  After a while the queen stripper did this move where she laid on the stage and hooked the heel of her stripper shoes on the bar.  She seemed like she lacked the flexibility to unhook it so I pointed and laughed and said "she's stuck!"  Well she heard me only she thought I said "she sucks."  She was pissed and jumped up with her belt and was yelling at me to take off my shirt and she was trying to get my belt off and she was going to beat the crap out of me and then this big ole boy stands up and proclaims "ma'am I'll take his beatin'."  She lit into him pretty good.  I was pretty scared.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: RickRampus on December 18, 2012, 02:24:38 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?

Oh man, there's an Emo EMAW story.  :sdeek:

do tell.

Was there for pheasant opener.  Apparently the place (this was in still in Liberal) had just lost their license so the three strippers there were forced to dance in like bikini's.  There were two younger stripers (one white, one hispanic, both pretty dern good for Liberal) and then one older queen stripper (pretty gross and mean).  Technically the bar was a different business (for license reasons or something) than the strip club so you had to exit the strip club to buy pitchers of beer (super cheap) and then bring the pitcher back to the strip club.  When we first walked in it was packed with some hunters and then a bunch of locals of hispanic descent.  We were looking for place to sit and people got shifty and the queen stripper yelled at us to sit down and I was forced to sit in a chair that didn't have a cushion, so like my ass fell through the frame a little bit.  After a while the queen stripper did this move where she laid on the stage and hooked the heel of her stripper shoes on the bar.  She seemed like she lacked the flexibility to unhook it so I pointed and laughed and said "she's stuck!"  Well she heard me only she thought I said "she sucks."  She was pissed and jumped up with her belt and was yelling at me to take off my shirt and she was trying to get my belt off and she was going to beat the crap out of me and then this big ole boy stands up and proclaims "ma'am I'll take his beatin'."  She lit into him pretty good.  I was pretty scared.

welp, Liberal ftw
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 02:25:15 PM
Did her rage at you give her super stripper strength that allowed her to yank her skank shoe free, or was there an awkward moment there where she wanted nothing more than to threaten you but couldnt until she unhooked her shoe?

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 02:26:46 PM
doesn't Liberal have a little shitty strip club that they moved over onto the Oklahoma side of the line?

Oh man, there's an Emo EMAW story.  :sdeek:

do tell.

Was there for pheasant opener.  Apparently the place (this was in still in Liberal) had just lost their license so the three strippers there were forced to dance in like bikini's.  There were two younger stripers (one white, one hispanic, both pretty dern good for Liberal) and then one older queen stripper (pretty gross and mean).  Technically the bar was a different business (for license reasons or something) than the strip club so you had to exit the strip club to buy pitchers of beer (super cheap) and then bring the pitcher back to the strip club.  When we first walked in it was packed with some hunters and then a bunch of locals of hispanic descent.  We were looking for place to sit and people got shifty and the queen stripper yelled at us to sit down and I was forced to sit in a chair that didn't have a cushion, so like my ass fell through the frame a little bit. After a while the queen stripper did this move where she laid on the stage and hooked the heel of her stripper shoes on the bar.  She seemed like she lacked the flexibility to unhook it so I pointed and laughed and said "she's stuck!"  Well she heard me only she thought I said "she sucks."  She was pissed and jumped up with her belt and was yelling at me to take off my shirt and she was trying to get my belt off and she was going to beat the crap out of me and then this big ole boy stands up and proclaims "ma'am I'll take his beatin'."  She lit into him pretty good.  I was pretty scared.
Elaborate this part of the story. I feel like you are leaving out details and not telling this story with enough zeal.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on December 18, 2012, 02:31:12 PM
http://www.gctelegram.com/news/Valens-new-pastor-in-Syracuse-12-18-12

Frankie Valens is the preacher of a church in Syracuse.  That probably bumps them to the "doesn't suck" list, right?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on December 18, 2012, 02:34:35 PM
The map of county health rankings on page 13 of this pdf from the Kansas Health Institute shows how horrible things are in SE KS.
http://media.khi.org/news/documents/2009/09/03/KansasCountyHealthRankings2009.pdf (http://media.khi.org/news/documents/2009/09/03/KansasCountyHealthRankings2009.pdf)

I had to spend a few days in Girard (county seat of Crawford County, west of Pittsburg) for work, so that wins my vote. Pittsburg and Parsons are charming in comparison.

I assume life in Fort Scott is terrible, based on driving through. Same with Ottawa.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 02:36:30 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 02:40:05 PM
I assume life in Fort Scott is terrible, based on driving through. Same with Ottawa.

You need to take a tour of the fort at Fort Scott. Awesome.

(http://kshistorygroupd.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/p1010668.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 02:56:27 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 18, 2012, 02:59:24 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.
Horton has a triage unit established by FEMA. It's a permanent facility.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:02:50 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 03:03:12 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

Horton has a triage unit established by FEMA. It's a permanent facility.

 :lol:
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:04:42 PM
Yes. Get out of here with that Ft Scott talk. I'm PRETTY sure their high school had a Pizza Hut. PRETTY SURE.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 0.42 on December 18, 2012, 03:06:03 PM
On Bubbles post, I found something very interesting about the perception of small towns.  I listed the populations of each city in bold.

My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro 2,993: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston 3,709: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg 3,458-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate ignore: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington 2,706- Just a town on K-4
Haven 1,237- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling 2,328- Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood 2,131- Oily yet poor
Marion 1,927- Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson 1,070: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.

It appears that by Bubbles standards, a town clearly needs at least 2,900 residents for a base to create a nice place to live.  Apparently 2,900 is the magic number to have enough commerce to sustain nice stores and enough tax base for a nice, clean infrastructure.  I would also like to point out that Hoisington, with a population of 2,700 is in the middle ground and also got a middle ground response from Bubbles.  Nothing positive or negative, just "a town".

If you have a population above 2,900 and still can't get it together, then you should qualify for this "Coffeeville Shithole" award as Heston, Hillsboro, and Lindsborg have shown that is a large enough population to get your crap together.

 :D
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on December 18, 2012, 03:07:22 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 03:10:33 PM
Saddest Boast: "Assaria: If you lived here you'd be home by now"
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bigwillie20 on December 18, 2012, 03:12:02 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

 :lol:

"We're Poors"
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 03:13:03 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

There are no anti-abortion signs in that stretch that I'm aware of. Almost all of the signs are around St. Paul, mostly between St. Paul and Girard.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 03:14:54 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 03:16:04 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrifying concrete shrine built by an insane old pedophile that has a mausoleum with his mummified corpse inside?
(http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/attachments/kansas/4300-lucas-kansas-garden-of-eden.jpg)

Do any of these towns have an entire museum dedicated to mutilated barbies and severed baby doll heads?

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4143/4855729222_94036c4c4f.jpg)

Maybe also a life size car made from pop tabs?

(http://www.clevermag.com/images06/spr09/Kansas/car.jpg)
Lucas has already been confirmed as awesome. Give it up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:16:21 PM
Where is the place on 70 that adv's for the 6 legged steer and the worlds largest ground hog.  Never stopped in, but I bet that place should be on this half fictional list of names.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 03:17:33 PM
I always thought the wind chimes out by Mullinville are very strange, and I'm kind of surprised Mullinville hasn't been nominated. Maybe it's nicer than it looks when you are driving through. :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 03:18:39 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

 :lol:

"We're Poors"

9 out of 10 of the list I posted got an A+ for cost of living.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:19:39 PM
What is the name of the little town btwn kc and Manhattan that is just south of 70 that is mostly Swedish and the capital of it's restaurant giving travelers that don't want to be in that town food poisoning?  I think that little slice of stomach pain deserves some discussion.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 03:19:52 PM
Where is the place on 70 that adv's for the 6 legged steer and the worlds largest ground hog.  Never stopped in, but I bet that place should be on this half fictional list of names.
Oakley and it has.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 03:20:49 PM
I always thought the wind chimes out by Mullinville are very strange, and I'm kind of surprised Mullinville hasn't been nominated. Maybe it's nicer than it looks when you are driving through. :dunno:

Too small.  That's really just M.T. Ligget going crazy near 254 other people. 
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:23:04 PM
Something to consider about Chetopa: they once cheated to win a catfish contest and then stole the trophy. So, plus 50 points.
_____________________________
Ernest Eaton, 85, of Burlington, said after the city proclaimed itself to be Catfish Capital of the World, officials from Chetopa protested.
For years, the southeast Kansas town had claimed to be the state's catfish capital. Eaton said the challenge resulted in a fishing contest between the two cities involving "The Sportsman's Friend" host Harold Ensley, perhaps as judge.
"There was a catfish trophy that was to go to the town that caught the biggest catfish," Eaton said. "Burlington caught the biggest catfish during the contest."
Then, the mayor of Chetopa told possibly the biggest fish tale in Kansas history. He said the spoonbill was part of the catfish family and since fishermen there had caught a spoonbill larger than any catfish hooked at Burlington, the trophy should go south.
Surprisingly, the Burlington mayor fell for the story hook, line and sinker.
But Eaton, an insurance agent and farmer at the time, foiled the Chetopa mayor's plan. He said he asked the Burlington mayor to bring the trophy to him so he could see it before it was shipped to Chetopa. While he distracted the mayor, a secretary stole the trophy.
Eaton kept the trophy for a while and then gave it the Jaycees. The last he knew, it was at the Eagles lodge.
"It didn't make it to Chetopa," he said. "A spoonbill is not a catfish."
But Loy, the bait shop owner and former Jaycee, said there's more to the story.
After the trophy was stolen by Eaton and his accomplices, some men from Chetopa visited Burlington, swiped the trophy and took it back to their hometown.
"Then some Burlington guys (went down there and) swiped it back," Loy said.
That supposedly set off years of orneriness between the two communities.
Toni Crumrine, Chetopa city clerk, said Chetopa has abandoned the world title and now claims to be Catfish Capital of Kansas -- a claim that stuns Eaton.
"Oh, no, we won that," he said. "How can they be the Catfish Capital of Kansas if we're the Catfish Capital of the World?"
But, Chetopa isn't losing any sleep over it. That city has another title to boast about, even though it's a little nutty.
"Chetopa," Crumrine said, "is state-sanctioned as the Pecan Capital of Kansas."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 03:24:27 PM
jmlynch, please post pics of your grassroots art on exhibit in lucas, ks.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:25:32 PM
Is that pronounced "chet" as in the d00d's name "Topia" as in utopia?

If so, I could easily be swayed to this town being on that list.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 03:26:01 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.

They offered Mrs. BF a job and a free house.   :dunno:
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:26:57 PM
We may also need a master list of best self-appointed title. Pecan Capital of Kansas is a pretty solid fanningbrag, but Prairie Chicken Capital of the World is really, really adorable.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:27:27 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.

They offered Mrs. BF a job and a free house.   :dunno:

Heard an NPR thing this year about how small towns in western KS is adopting the Doctors Without Boarders method of attracting new doctors to come to Western KS to serve time.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:28:18 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 03:29:18 PM
That's actually a pretty badass story from lil' ol' Chetopa. Say what you want, but Burlington is better than them in every conceivable way, yet they are able to make Burlington lower themselves to being their rival.

Oh, and CNS Casey, it's pronounced Shuh-Toe-Puh.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:32:32 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.

They offered Mrs. BF a job and a free house.   :dunno:

Heard an NPR thing this year about how small towns in western KS is adopting the Doctors Without Boarders method of attracting new doctors to come to Western KS to serve time.

FR_BIL is a pretty elite oncologist currently serving indentured servitude in Hutch. He is NOT impressed by the space museum and would probably vote Hutch for the Mrs Gooch Coffeyville Gross Fights at Fairgrounds after the Demo Derby Trophy brought to you by abandoned Dairy Queens and Frito Pies.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 03:38:03 PM
FR_BIL is a pretty elite oncologist currently serving indentured servitude in Hutch. He is NOT impressed by the space museum and would probably vote Hutch for the Mrs Gooch Coffeyville Gross Fights at Fairgrounds after the Demo Derby Trophy brought to you by abandoned Dairy Queens and Frito Pies.

Sorry, the Cosmosphere is elite. 
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:40:15 PM
FR_BIL is a pretty elite oncologist currently serving indentured servitude in Hutch. He is NOT impressed by the space museum and would probably vote Hutch for the Mrs Gooch Coffeyville Gross Fights at Fairgrounds after the Demo Derby Trophy brought to you by abandoned Dairy Queens and Frito Pies.

Sorry, the Cosmosphere is elite.

Due to the timing of field trips, I associate those massive grain elevators with astronaut ice cream runs (maybe belongs in worst poops thread).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 03:41:14 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.

They offered Mrs. BF a job and a free house.   :dunno:

Heard an NPR thing this year about how small towns in western KS is adopting the Doctors Without Boarders method of attracting new doctors to come to Western KS to serve time.

The town I live in has a brand new clinic built by via christi but no doctor.  They shut it down after one year because they found it was not cost effective.   The farmer that owns the building now has been trying to get a doc out here.  Farmer said he would not charge anything to use the building.  So if you're a family medicine doc looking for a place to start a private practice here you go.  20 miles west of Wichita.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:43:47 PM
A lot of these job offers for small-town Kansas doctors also sound like a good way to get murdered.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:44:05 PM
Burlingame.

It has an Allen County Community College extension campus.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Willesgirl on December 18, 2012, 03:44:35 PM
I love little western Kansas towns, like a lot. Good people live there and most of them are K-State fans. That's worth a lot of points.

That list of some kids' league schools -- Sterling, Hillsboro, Lindsborg -- when I was a kid I dreamed of my parents moving us out there where we could farm and stuff. But nope. Stuck in the JC suburbs, which in some ways are completely awful and full of KU people.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:45:23 PM
Uniontown.

It has a Motel named "Wyatt Earp Inn". Used to be a nursing home.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: tdaver on December 18, 2012, 03:46:25 PM
+1 Horton

Also Elwood.  Floods practically every other year, smells like fish rot, and has swarms of huge mosquitos
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:46:41 PM
Burlingame.

It has an Allen County Community College extension campus.

Wow. That is definitely an RPI booster. An extension campus of a juco is going to catch the committee's eye.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:46:52 PM
Any Kansas town that you pronounce wrong (and then draw the wrath of a former native)

Including Kechi, Cheney, LeRoy, etc
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 03:47:30 PM
I love little western Kansas towns, like a lot. Good people live there and most of them are K-State fans. That's worth a lot of points.

That list of some kids' league schools -- Sterling, Hillsboro, Lindsborg -- when I was a kid I dreamed of my parents moving us out there where we could farm and stuff. But nope. Stuck in the JC suburbs, which in some ways are completely awful and full of KU people.
Well, yeah, I think we can all agree JC suburbs are awful in their own special way.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:47:48 PM
Saul dropping gross bombs now.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:48:58 PM
Burlingame.

It has an Allen County Community College extension campus.


Wow. That is definitely an RPI booster. An extension campus of a juco is going to catch the committee's eye.
Add Mulvane, KS to the list then. Has a Cowley County Community college office.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:49:53 PM
Cheney suffers from proximity to Coffeyville. But gets bonus points for not being a weirdo cult like Tyro.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:50:02 PM
Had a roomie in college that lived out in far western KS.  Had to drive 2hrs one way to go to freaking wal-mart.  I don't even.  I mean, we should set up a mission/self help clinic out there or something right? 

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 03:50:32 PM
and Wamego right? (with the CC extension thing)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
Gas, KS.

When you drive by it on US-54 to another small, shitty KS town, someone in the car has to make the joke "We just passed Gas!"
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:51:02 PM
and Wamego right? (with the CC extension thing)
Wamego has some redeeming qualities to it. I don't think they can be included. JMO.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:51:52 PM
Burlingame.

It has an Allen County Community College extension campus.


Wow. That is definitely an RPI booster. An extension campus of a juco is going to catch the committee's eye.
Add Mulvane, KS to the list then. Has a Cowley County Community college office.

And sounds like a body part only found in elderly female German immigrants. But does it hit the Bubbles Line?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:52:00 PM
Marion, KS

it sucks. Has an airport though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 03:52:48 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:52:53 PM
I haven't read this entire thread, will do so when I get home...but

Lindsborg, KS

Sucks. Stupid red horses with peoples names on it.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on December 18, 2012, 03:53:29 PM
Any Kansas town that you pronounce wrong (and then draw the wrath of a former native)

Including Kechi, Cheney, LeRoy, etc

Neodesha is the king of this. 
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:53:32 PM
Had a roomie in college that lived out in far western KS.  Had to drive 2hrs one way to go to freaking wal-mart.  I don't even.  I mean, we should set up a mission/self help clinic out there or something right?

I have a friend there and he can't iMessage me because he never has 3G and I'm the one literally living in BFE.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:53:53 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:
And OLD SETTLER DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

Always wanted to try Lucianos. Recommendos?
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:54:46 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:

It is so great to see Mrs Gooch embrace her oily but poor heritage.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 03:55:13 PM
A lot of these job offers for small-town Kansas doctors also sound like a good way to get murdered.

Yeah I guess my town is notorious for producing exceptionally smelly poopers also.   
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 03:56:33 PM
Udall. Almost wiped out by a tornado. Drats.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:56:50 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:

Everyone completely ignored my Russel post.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:57:26 PM
I haven't read this entire thread, will do so when I get home...but

Lindsborg, KS

Sucks. Stupid red horses with peoples names on it.

I am pretty sure this is the one I meant in my post about giving ppl food poisoning
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 03:57:35 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:
And OLD SETTLER DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

Always wanted to try Lucianos. Recommendos?

Oh man. We are also gonna need a side list of best "days" celebration. "Old Sailor and Soldiers" is nice because its proclaimed next to a huge roadside ditch that's always flooded and has a tire island, but Little Balkans Days is just a great WTF Kansas tradition.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:58:20 PM
Had a roomie in college that lived out in far western KS.  Had to drive 2hrs one way to go to freaking wal-mart.  I don't even.  I mean, we should set up a mission/self help clinic out there or something right?

I have a friend there and he can't iMessage me because he never has 3G and I'm the one literally living in BFE.

Oh man.  So, we probs need to focus off of Egypt for a while and get crap straight here at home. 

 :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ChiComCat on December 18, 2012, 03:58:56 PM
I haven't read this entire thread, will do so when I get home...but

Lindsborg, KS

Sucks. Stupid red horses with peoples names on it.

Fantastic crepes there made by swedes, which seems like a crepe people.  I like Lindsborg
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: GoodForAnother on December 18, 2012, 03:59:12 PM
I can confirm Cheney is pretty terrible.  Grew up in Goddard which is also terrible but at least it's close to Wichita which is slightly less terrible.

You could take everything south of US-50 and give it to Oklahoma and I wouldn't care/notice.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 03:59:45 PM
I can confirm Cheney is pretty terrible.  Grew up in Goddard which is also terrible but at least it's close to Wichita which is slightly less terrible.

You could take everything south of US-50 and give it to Oklahoma and I wouldn't care/notice.

Those of us from NEKS would amend that to I70
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: GoodForAnother on December 18, 2012, 04:01:15 PM
I can confirm Cheney is pretty terrible.  Grew up in Goddard which is also terrible but at least it's close to Wichita which is slightly less terrible.

You could take everything south of US-50 and give it to Oklahoma and I wouldn't care/notice.

Those of us from NEKS would amend that to I70

And drop the Flint Hills Scenic Byway?  Are you high?
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 04:01:51 PM

You could take everything south of US-50 and give it to Oklahoma and I wouldn't care/notice.

Plus, shorter drive for the Gooches to buy cheap cigarettes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 04:02:31 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also, Mulvane is off the list just because they have Luciano's.  :lick:
And OLD SETTLER DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

Always wanted to try Lucianos. Recommendos?

Oh man. We are also gonna need a side list of best "days" celebration. "Old Sailor and Soldiers" is nice because its proclaimed next to a huge roadside ditch that's always flooded and has a tire island, but Little Balkans Days is just a great WTF Kansas tradition.

I never attended, but Neewollah (in Independence) always intrigued me.








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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 04:02:39 PM
I haven't read this entire thread, will do so when I get home...but

Lindsborg, KS

Sucks. Stupid red horses with peoples names on it.

Fantastic crepes there made by swedes, which seems like a crepe people.  I like Lindsborg
This Lutheran is pro-Lindsborg
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on December 18, 2012, 04:04:32 PM
Any Kansas town that you pronounce wrong (and then draw the wrath of a former native)

Including Kechi, Cheney, LeRoy, etc

Neodesha is the king of this.


Key-chi
Chee-nee
le-ROY
nee-O-de-shay


In your fat faces, out-of-towners.   :cool:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: tdaver on December 18, 2012, 04:04:42 PM
Do any of these towns have a terrible smell? That is a requirement for any Coffeyville themed award.

Also Elwood.  Floods practically every other year, smells like fish rot, and has swarms of huge mosquitos
They don't call it "Smellwood" for nothing. :barf:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 04:05:26 PM
I can confirm Cheney is pretty terrible.  Grew up in Goddard which is also terrible but at least it's close to Wichita which is slightly less terrible.

You could take everything south of US-50 and give it to Oklahoma and I wouldn't care/notice.

Those of us from NEKS would amend that to I70

And drop the Flint Hills Scenic Byway?  Are you high?

I have never been to Flint Hills Scenic Byways Days, so I should probs with hold judgement until I then.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on December 18, 2012, 04:05:46 PM
probably not the "worst," but maybe "weirdest" would be montezuma.

you just have to go there and walk around for like 5 minutes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 04:06:51 PM
Eldorado is pretty bad. Meets the stink and oil requirments. Was at one point the murder capital of kansas. Doesn't have anything good that i have ever seen or heard of.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on December 18, 2012, 04:34:55 PM
Cheney suffers from proximity to Coffeyville. But gets bonus points for not being a weirdo cult like Tyro.

isn't cheney almost 3 hours away from coffeyville?

Not defending cheney in anyway.

Will add that Nickerson is a total shithole.
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on December 18, 2012, 04:46:02 PM
Had a roomie in college that lived out in far western KS.  Had to drive 2hrs one way to go to freaking wal-mart.  I don't even.  I mean, we should set up a mission/self help clinic out there or something right?

I have a friend there and he can't iMessage me because he never has 3G and I'm the one literally living in BFE.

Ha ha
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 18, 2012, 04:53:31 PM
If you grew up a city kid and move to western kansas out of college for a pud radio gig. You will learn how to build character real fast. Kinda like you gotta laugh so you don't cry kinda thing.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 05:00:16 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

There are no anti-abortion signs in that stretch that I'm aware of. Almost all of the signs are around St. Paul, mostly between St. Paul and Girard.

Seriously? I made that drive last December and I thought I counted an enormous amount of those signs. I could be mistaken.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 05:01:17 PM
Surprised Kiowa hasn't been mentioned yet.  Got a kidney stone attack (my first one) there.  ER was 2 people.  Awesome ER experience.  Don't even think they had a waiting room.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 05:02:20 PM
Also, I really really rough ridin' miss the German restaurant in Rush Center.  Had like really decent authentic German food.  Been gone for a few years now.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2012, 05:06:24 PM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

There are no anti-abortion signs in that stretch that I'm aware of. Almost all of the signs are around St. Paul, mostly between St. Paul and Girard.

Seriously? I made that drive last December and I thought I counted an enormous amount of those signs. I could be mistaken.

I haven't been there for some time now, so maybe I'm just misremembering or maybe the signs are new. The homemade billboards around St. Paul are definitely still there, though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 18, 2012, 05:28:21 PM
Cheney suffers from proximity to Coffeyville. But gets bonus points for not being a weirdo cult like Tyro.

isn't cheney almost 3 hours away from coffeyville?

Not defending cheney in anyway.

Will add that Nickerson is a total shithole.

He was thinking of Caney, not Cheney.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 18, 2012, 05:33:40 PM
I would say smelly rossville, however they put in a new casey's in place of a broken down trailer park and it is much better now.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on December 18, 2012, 05:40:24 PM
DNR entire thread but I'm sure Emporia got some good play
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 18, 2012, 05:44:15 PM
DNR entire thread but I'm sure Emporia got some good play

everyone focused on much smaller towns. i think we need to break it down into town sizes and state quadrants personally but felix apparently wants nothing to do with it.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 06:02:38 PM
My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington - Just a town on K-4
Haven- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling - Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood - Oily yet poor
Marion - Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.

Not in that league, but that is a pretty spot on ranking.  I would put Sterling ahead of Haven though.  Sterling is actually pretty nice and has a college. 

Hillsboro and Hesston are pretty nice for small towns like you said.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shacks on December 18, 2012, 06:05:24 PM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 06:06:48 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

 :lol:

"We're Poors"

Lehigh - "Small, but it's home."

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j-dub on December 18, 2012, 06:11:39 PM
osawatomie.

like 3 mcdonald's in the history of the world have failed. and osawatomie was home to one of them.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Pete on December 18, 2012, 06:11:58 PM
This thread is so depressing.  If you aren't a large land owner, or a skilled professional (e.g. Doctor, Accountant, Engineer), what the eff do you do to make a living in these towns?

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 06:12:20 PM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet

Rankings of mid-sized Kansas Cities without major colleges. 

Best to worst:

Salina > Hutchinson > Garden City > Dodge City
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 18, 2012, 06:13:40 PM
This thread is so depressing.  If you aren't a large land owner, or a skilled professional (e.g. Doctor, Accountant, Engineer), what the eff do you do to make a living in these towns?

3 or 4 work at the gas station/restaurant/grocery store.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shacks on December 18, 2012, 06:13:48 PM
This thread is so depressing.  If you aren't a large land owner, or a skilled professional (e.g. Doctor, Accountant, Engineer), what the eff do you do to make a living in these towns?

Cook/sell meth, manufacture and sell moonshine, collect welfare
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 06:16:04 PM
This thread is so depressing.  If you aren't a large land owner, or a skilled professional (e.g. Doctor, Accountant, Engineer), what the eff do you do to make a living in these towns?

Schools, Insurance, Gas Station, Auto repair, Grocery Store, Lawyer, City/ County Government, Law enforcement.  Some have a decent manufacturing business, a lot are close enough to a larger place with more jobs. 

For this reason the towns farther into western Kansas seem nicer.  I think they are forced to be more self-reliant.  Some towns in far NCK are similar, supporting businesses that similar sized towns closer to larger cities cannot. 

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 06:38:35 PM
I'm going to run with Bubbles's idea

NCAA League - Best to worst

Beloit (3,789) - Pretty nice, clean town.  Nice HS.  Large enough to support local businesses.  A small town that I would live in. 

Ellsworth (3,113) - Pretty nice and clean, cool golf course, decent businesses, prison = good for jobs/ bad for  :ohno:
Minneapolis (2,042) - Clean, not as much business as Beloit.  Has feeder towns for the high school (Delphos), 20 minutes from Salina which keeps people employed and pop. stable.
Russell (4,497) - Used to seem nice, I was there a few years ago and seems more empty and aging now.  They also suck at sports for such a big town relative to other schools. 

Belleville (1,963) - Town is shrinking fast, always seemed crappy even 10-15 years ago.  Getting smaller.  Seemed dirtier than other towns in league.

Assaria/ Gypsum (416, 408) - These towns go to SE of Saline.  The school is nice.  The towns are ass.  Completely empty and dead, like most towns with no school in them.  Woof. 

Sared Heart in Salina is prob best.  Most people seem to have a decent amount of living and everyone I knew had pretty nice houses.  It just doesn't really fit in this ranking.  I mean Salina has a lot of crapy stuff, but SH people prob dont live in those areas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kstate16 on December 18, 2012, 06:56:13 PM
Maybe OT:

Do you think Topeka is the worst capital in the country? Always thought about this, but I mean, what other city would be better? I think Wichita is much better.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 07:02:38 PM
Maybe OT:

Do you think Topeka is the worst capital in the country? Always thought about this, but I mean, what other city would be better? I think Wichita is much better.
Jeff City. Woof.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 18, 2012, 07:10:51 PM
Fairbanks is a terrible capital.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: FP TC etc. on December 18, 2012, 07:54:17 PM
I too played sports against Galena. Where are you from Nuts Kicked?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on December 18, 2012, 08:04:19 PM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet

Rankings of mid-sized Kansas Cities without major colleges. 

Best to worst:

Salina > Hutchinson > Garden City > Dodge City

Where would Junction City fall if you added it to this list?  It wouldn't be first, but I don't enough about these towns to place it exactly.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 08:22:52 PM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet

Rankings of mid-sized Kansas Cities without major colleges. 

Best to worst:

Salina > Hutchinson > Garden City > Dodge City

Where would Junction City fall if you added it to this list?  It wouldn't be first, but I don't enough about these towns to place it exactly.

I dunno, probably between Hutch and Garden.  People I've met who live in Junction City seem to like it. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CHONGS on December 18, 2012, 08:43:12 PM
It's easily dodge city, followed closely by garden city

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 18, 2012, 08:46:27 PM
Fairbanks is a terrible capital.

great stuff CFoD.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ew2x4 on December 18, 2012, 09:15:49 PM
Born in Ark City. It's pretty awful. That said, there alot of bad ones like Kanorado, Lakin, Syracuse, etc. that deserve the top spot, at least for the smaller towns. I usually take I-70 when I go to Kansas. Had to take 50 one time. Heard banjos the whole way. Pretty sure I saw an 80's Astrovan with one spinner in Lakin at their stop sign.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: chunkles on December 18, 2012, 09:30:19 PM
dear god, sorry you all have wasted so much of your day.  I couldn't post until just now.  Anywho:

JFC IT'S LARNED

does your 2nd worst town have two feedlots on either side of it, producing a fine dusting of crap smell no matter which direction the wind is blowing? 
What is missing in your oh so horrible, yet non-crap smell town? 

El Dorado, LOL (lived there. it smells, but not like crap) has a community college and an awesome lake. NOPE.
Rush Center is pud but doesn't smell like crap.  NICE TRY ASSHOLES
Those swedish towns have these cathedrals that are like a mile tall that people enjoy. They also don't smell like crap.  OUT.
Great Bend is called Great Bend because of the river that bends within the town.  It has a river.  Smells shitty sometimes... river auto-disqualifies.
Ark City is bad.  Blackface mayor guy from a few years ago, desperately tries to be in Oklahoma, yet no discernable crap smell. eff OFF THEN.
Dodge City.  Very tempting choice.  Pig crap smell is worse than cow crap.  Still, history and new cultures are fun, right?
lest we forget Kansas City Kansas is in Kansas.  Raceway/legends is basically Edwardsville, so eff off.  That said, no unavoidable crap smell.

Larned.  Nothing to see there.  Fort Larned is like other boring forts, except when you're done visiting you just go back to smelling crap all day in a boring crap-smell town.  Funfact: Larned has no funfacts because it is goddamn full of shattered dreams and constant crap smell.





Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2012, 09:34:33 PM
Convinced. So which is third?

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 18, 2012, 09:36:37 PM
lol
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 18, 2012, 09:38:31 PM
Quinter.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j-dub on December 18, 2012, 09:39:37 PM
Quinter.

i don't know. i kinda like that little diner..
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 18, 2012, 09:43:33 PM
The squawk bar in WaKeeney isn't that bad at all.  Watched Texas beat Nebraska there.  Which time you ask?  The one where Texas was driving late and they decided to go one more play before kicking the field goal and the QB scrambled and threw the ball out of bounds and the refs put 0:01 back on the clock for the winning field goal.  So great. :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: chunkles on December 18, 2012, 09:45:23 PM
Quinter.
crap-smell status?  I'm guessing none.  BUY IN OR QUINTER HUR HUR

Actually know some stellar emaws from Quinter.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 18, 2012, 10:57:58 PM
Does anyone know if Potwin is a crappy place to live?  I know they have a large feedlot just southwest of town.  Could qualify under chunkles rule. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bones129 on December 18, 2012, 11:08:17 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

So, WaKeeney is for sale?  :excited:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2012, 11:37:31 PM
Small towns, at least the ones that aren't completely dying, seem to get better the farther west you go. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shoeless Joe Jackson on December 18, 2012, 11:47:01 PM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

 :lol:

"We're Poors"

Lehigh - "Small, but it's home."

Lincoln - "Free Land"

A place so horrible they give you a free piece of land to put your trailer on.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 18, 2012, 11:51:34 PM
They have post rock history ahole!
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 18, 2012, 11:56:14 PM
DNR entire thread but I'm sure Emporia got some good play

everyone focused on much smaller towns. i think we need to break it down into town sizes and state quadrants personally but felix apparently wants nothing to do with it.

No. I am board with this. Four quadrants and a 4A system?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shoeless Joe Jackson on December 19, 2012, 12:02:06 AM
Actually many of the towns listed in this thread just give away land.  Do other states do this? :dunno:

Kansasfreeland.com
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 19, 2012, 12:09:02 AM
What a treat of a thread. Thanks for this, Felix.

It's great because so many of us who have been around Kansas know exactly the feeling...when you're in some little (or medium-sized) town somewhere in Kansas and you suddenly think to yourself: "Dear lord. There are people who actually live here. I couldn't imagine...in a million years..."

Those co-op towns that are DQ'd tend to depress me the most because there used to be more going on there and now there are zero businesses, but people still live there in old houses that sell for $15,000, and you wonder, "what do these people do to make money?" Sure, some of them farm, but there are more houses in there. Greeley is a good example of this. I guess maybe folks go into Osawotamie or Garnett to work.  :dunno:

SEK does seem to be the worst in a lot of ways, though. How about those KDOT signs along highways like US 169 that say "attractions" and then list things like "Sleep Inn" or "Dairy Queen"?  Oof.

There are some good jobs in small towns, and small town life really isn't that bad if you have enough money to live large. Something I have noticed, at least in southeast Kansas, is that most of the people who have good jobs live a few miles outside of town.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bones129 on December 19, 2012, 12:28:07 AM
What a treat of a thread. Thanks for this, Felix.

It's great because so many of us who have been around Kansas know exactly the feeling...when you're in some little (or medium-sized) town somewhere in Kansas and you suddenly think to yourself: "Dear lord. There are people who actually live here. I couldn't imagine...in a million years..."

Those co-op towns that are DQ'd tend to depress me the most because there used to be more going on there and now there are zero businesses, but people still live there in old houses that sell for $15,000, and you wonder, "what do these people do to make money?" Sure, some of them farm, but there are more houses in there. Greeley is a good example of this. I guess maybe folks go into Osawotamie or Garnett to work.  :dunno:

SEK does seem to be the worst in a lot of ways, though. How about those KDOT signs along highways like US 169 that say "attractions" and then list things like "Sleep Inn" or "Dairy Queen"?  Oof.

There are some good jobs in small towns, and small town life really isn't that bad if you have enough money to live large. Something I have noticed, at least in southeast Kansas, is that most of the people who have good jobs live a few miles outside of town.

That was a good post, Nuts. I must agree with it. Especially the "live large" part. Accurate, very accurate.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 19, 2012, 01:01:35 AM
Quinter.

this is weird.  just 5 minutes ago my mom wanted to know if i wanted to go see some traveling peter pan play in sacremento and that she got tickets cause her secretary's cousin is from quinter kansas and is in the play.

never heard of quinter before this.  did not accept the tickets.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 19, 2012, 01:22:12 AM
Herington, Nichols and McVeigh holed up there while they were planning the bombing. Terrible, nasty Dairy Queen.

Any town located within Osage County. Scranton probably takes the cake. The Trop, woof.

St Marys, with the ex-communicated catholics and that weird clothing donation thing on the north side of 24.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 19, 2012, 01:56:03 AM
So, NE, NW, SE, and SW divisions too much? Seems like it. Maybe just a NE, SE, and West division. What's the population division? 1A-under 2.5k, 2A-2.5k to 10k, 3A-10k to 25k, 4A, 25k plus?

This seems like a lot of work. Someone else do it and post.

Also, Pecan Capital of Kansas is the current leader for best fanningbrag. "It's affordable" is tops in "lowest self-esteem/will probably sleep with you on first date".
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on December 19, 2012, 02:28:17 AM
Now I just want to see photoshops of city limit signs and post cards with awkwardly true assessments of the nominated town.

There is a sign on I-70 that says "WaKeeney: It's Affordable". Always struck me as a pretty sad boast.

 :lol:

"We're Poors"

Lehigh - "Small, but it's home."

Lincoln - "Free Land"

A place so horrible they give you a free piece of land to put your trailer on.

There is a certain goEMAW poster that will NOT enjoy your post
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 19, 2012, 02:40:31 AM
Does anyone know if Potwin is a crappy place to live?  I know they have a large feedlot just southwest of town.  Could qualify under chunkles rule.

there is a VERY cool neighborhood in topeka called potwin.  it's got like brick streets and tons of beautiful houses from the 1800's.  would totally live there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 19, 2012, 07:05:10 AM
Greeley is a good example of this. I guess maybe folks go into Osawotamie or Garnett to work.  :dunno:
Greeley had an all-nude strip bar for a while. Probably lost a lot of jobs when it closed down.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 19, 2012, 07:07:39 AM
In Oswego there are signs that say the city will pay you $3000 to build a house there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 19, 2012, 07:18:15 AM
all of Jackson county
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 19, 2012, 07:22:03 AM
Small towns, at least the ones that aren't completely dying, seem to get better the farther west you go.

It's because they have to be self sufficient because there are no large towns to feed off of out there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 07:25:47 AM
dear god, sorry you all have wasted so much of your day.  I couldn't post until just now.  Anywho:

JFC IT'S LARNED

does your 2nd worst town have two feedlots on either side of it, producing a fine dusting of crap smell no matter which direction the wind is blowing? 
What is missing in your oh so horrible, yet non-crap smell town? 

El Dorado, LOL (lived there. it smells, but not like crap) has a community college and an awesome lake. NOPE.
Rush Center is pud but doesn't smell like crap.  NICE TRY ASSHOLES
Those swedish towns have these cathedrals that are like a mile tall that people enjoy. They also don't smell like crap.  OUT.
Great Bend is called Great Bend because of the river that bends within the town.  It has a river.  Smells shitty sometimes... river auto-disqualifies.
Ark City is bad.  Blackface mayor guy from a few years ago, desperately tries to be in Oklahoma, yet no discernable crap smell. eff OFF THEN.
Dodge City.  Very tempting choice.  Pig crap smell is worse than cow crap.  Still, history and new cultures are fun, right?
lest we forget Kansas City Kansas is in Kansas.  Raceway/legends is basically Edwardsville, so eff off.  That said, no unavoidable crap smell.

Larned.  Nothing to see there.  Fort Larned is like other boring forts, except when you're done visiting you just go back to smelling crap all day in a boring crap-smell town.  Funfact: Larned has no funfacts because it is goddamn full of shattered dreams and constant crap smell.
Horton disagrees with you.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 07:29:56 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on December 19, 2012, 07:31:29 AM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet

Rankings of mid-sized Kansas Cities without major colleges. 

Best to worst:

Salina > Hutchinson > Garden City > Dodge City

I was going to make an argument on Hutch being in front of Salina, but the Salina Mall vs the Hutch Mall /Empty Ghost Mall is probably worth enough points to push Salina back in front. But there is a large gap between Hutch and Garden City.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on December 19, 2012, 07:33:50 AM
osawatomie.

like 3 mcdonald's in the history of the world have failed. and osawatomie was home to one of them.

Didn't the McDonalds in Lyons fail as well?

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 19, 2012, 07:38:42 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 07:43:23 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Western KS smells like money. SE KS smells like ass.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 19, 2012, 08:16:31 AM
Smell matters, but I can hardly see how it could be the deciding factor for worst city when 25% of Kansas smells exactly the same.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 19, 2012, 08:16:52 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.

You need to make a distinction between NW and SW. NW is ok (pburg), SW is total garbage and the worst place on earth.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 19, 2012, 08:23:28 AM
Eureka.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 19, 2012, 08:25:12 AM
Smith Center.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: RickRampus on December 19, 2012, 08:26:38 AM
personally I like the sign in front of Yates Center that proclaims it to be the "Prarie Hay Capitol of the World" as the best #fanningbrag. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 19, 2012, 08:28:13 AM
personally I like the sign in front of Yates Center that proclaims it to be the "Prarie Hay Capitol of the World" as the best #fanningbrag.

You should swing by Bert's some time. It only looks expensive.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 08:30:50 AM
The SE KS regional champion will win this thing.  SE KS is absolutely awful.
Did you like my "smells like money" reference? That was just for you. :cheers:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWican on December 19, 2012, 08:35:53 AM
personally I like the sign in front of Yates Center that proclaims it to be the "Prarie Hay Capitol of the World" as the best #fanningbrag.

You should swing by Bert's some time. It only looks expensive.

Bert's is for sale.  What a great investment opportunity.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: RickRampus on December 19, 2012, 08:38:50 AM
personally I like the sign in front of Yates Center that proclaims it to be the "Prarie Hay Capitol of the World" as the best #fanningbrag.

You should swing by Bert's some time. It only looks expensive.

driven passed and chuckled at that sign, still it looks like a stiff wind would put Bert's into the ground
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 19, 2012, 09:07:56 AM
Wellsville is pretty shitty
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 19, 2012, 09:09:27 AM
Onaga and Centralia are really shitty
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on December 19, 2012, 09:12:12 AM
while not nice or interesting, i don't think onaga is that bad. the people that live there are at least ok.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 09:16:36 AM
Onaga and Centralia are really shitty
Centralia has a swimming pool (possibly getting a new pool), they also have the team that beat Smith Center in State Football a few years ago. They almost beat Meade this year (Meade is in the running for best town, so almost beating them is a feather in the Centralia cap). Plus, John Riggins.

Onaga is pretty dumpy in places, but it is no Horton.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on December 19, 2012, 09:23:34 AM
Not a fan of Onaga's golf course. Pretty sure wind originates up there. :shakesfist:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Winters on December 19, 2012, 09:31:55 AM
St. Mary's
Never mind, forgot about this. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/highschool/07/03/best.states/index.html?eref=T1  :shy:

EDIT: Yes there is a banner in the gym.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWican on December 19, 2012, 09:38:15 AM
Smell matters, but I can hardly see how it could be the deciding factor for worst city when 25% of Kansas smells exactly the same.

In the event of a tie, we could use feedlot smell < oil smell < meat-packing plant incinerator smell  :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 09:40:49 AM
Smell matters, but I can hardly see how it could be the deciding factor for worst city when 25% of Kansas smells exactly the same.

In the event of a tie, we could use feedlot smell < oil smell < meat-packing plant incinerator smell  :dunno:
as long as "ass smell" is the worst on the list, then I agree with this tiebreaker methodology.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 19, 2012, 09:43:13 AM
I love little western Kansas towns, like a lot. Good people live there and most of them are K-State fans. That's worth a lot of points.

That list of some kids' league schools -- Sterling, Hillsboro, Lindsborg -- when I was a kid I dreamed of my parents moving us out there where we could farm and stuff. But nope. Stuck in the JC suburbs, which in some ways are completely awful and full of KU people.

Fanning, Hutch is not in the JC suburbs. :dubious:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Willesgirl on December 19, 2012, 09:45:22 AM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

And rumor has it, there's a lot of inbreeding and  :opcat: there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Matt Siebrant's Left Hand on December 19, 2012, 10:07:06 AM
St. Mary's
Never mind, forgot about this. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/highschool/07/03/best.states/index.html?eref=T1  :shy:

EDIT: Yes there is a banner in the gym.
Psst, a good year for St. Mary's is like what 3rd/4th best in the Mid-East League?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on December 19, 2012, 10:35:30 AM
Eskridge.  Doesn't have the necessary crap smell but everything else about it seems like it sucks.  Very methy and depressing looking.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j-dub on December 19, 2012, 11:23:06 AM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

can confirm. also la cygne. and blue mound. and garnett. and parker.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: yoEMAW on December 19, 2012, 01:43:36 PM


I never attended, but Neewollah (in Independence) always intrigued me.


*It's Halloween spelled backwards for those of you who hadn't figured that out

It's legit. They had the band Smash Mouth there a couple years ago.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 19, 2012, 01:47:41 PM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

can confirm. also la cygne. and blue mound. and garnett. and parker.

Those are all disqualified because you made them up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 19, 2012, 01:52:44 PM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

can confirm. also la cygne. and blue mound. and garnett. and parker.

Those are all disqualified because you made them up.

Parker is not made up. The governor of Kansas is from Parker.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: jmlynch1 on December 19, 2012, 02:02:04 PM
Is la cygne the one by that lake? MoCat?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on December 19, 2012, 02:07:16 PM
I'm going to go ahead and thow highland ks out there. I've never been but I had 2 friends play JUCO ball there and everything they told me sounded terrible.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 19, 2012, 02:10:06 PM
Is la cygne the one by that lake? MoCat?

It's the one with the power plant.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Stevesie60 on December 19, 2012, 02:23:33 PM
Alta Vista. There is only one gas station within 20 minutes, and the owner just shows up and works there whenever he wants to. Does not take credit cards, so you can only fill up when he's there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 19, 2012, 03:27:39 PM
I'm going to go ahead and thow highland ks out there. I've never been but I had 2 friends play JUCO ball there and everything they told me sounded terrible.

went to school there for a year and had tons of fun because of who i was living with.  the town is rough ridin' terrible though.  you have to drive to st. joe to eat or even get grocerys, and that means driving though smellwood.  the laundromat (in the gas station) in town smelled like an ashtray.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shacks on December 19, 2012, 03:52:05 PM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

can confirm. also la cygne. and blue mound. and garnett. and parker.

Those are all disqualified because you made them up.

Parker is not made up. The governor of Kansas is from Parker.

That's gonna boost Parker's RPI
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: tdaver on December 19, 2012, 03:59:01 PM
I'm going to go ahead and thow highland ks out there. I've never been but I had 2 friends play JUCO ball there and everything they told me sounded terrible.

Nope.  Elwood and White Cloud are fighting for the worst in Doniphan Co.  The winner will take on Brown Co champ Horton.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 19, 2012, 04:00:41 PM
I'm going to go ahead and thow highland ks out there. I've never been but I had 2 friends play JUCO ball there and everything they told me sounded terrible.
Highland use to recruit eudora's JV teams, that's how pud that school is. If you didn't get an offer from highland, you're probably in a wheel chair.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 19, 2012, 04:27:31 PM
Alta Vista. There is only one gas station within 20 minutes, and the owner just shows up and works there whenever he wants to. Does not take credit cards, so you can only fill up when he's there.

Hey! Old settler's day and homemade ice cream. There's two gas stations. However, one might not be operational anymore. No liquor store, but there is a bar. Council Grove is only like 15 minutes away and Manhattan is 30 minutes to the north.

AV is pretty dumpy, but does not belong in this discussion.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 19, 2012, 04:29:03 PM
Alta Vista. There is only one gas station within 20 minutes, and the owner just shows up and works there whenever he wants to. Does not take credit cards, so you can only fill up when he's there.

Hey! Old settler's day and homemade ice cream. There's two gas stations. However, one might not be operational anymore. No liquor store, but there is a bar. Council Grove is only like 15 minutes away and Manhattan is 30 minutes to the north.

AV is pretty dumpy, but does not belong in this discussion.

You have not done a very good job explaining why.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 19, 2012, 04:34:05 PM
Proximity to Manhattan, low crime rate, has a gas station, barber shop, bar, restaurant and grocery store and does not smell particularly bad. There are stand-outs competing for the top spot on this list. Alta Vista, despite it's run-downness, is not particularly bad.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 04:35:37 PM
Proximity to Manhattan, low crime rate, has a gas station, barber shop, bar, restaurant and grocery store and does not smell particularly bad. There are stand-outs competing for the top spot on this list. Alta Vista, despite it's run-downness, is not particularly bad.
You really just needed to say, "It's not Horton."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on December 19, 2012, 04:38:48 PM
Alta Vista. There is only one gas station within 20 minutes, and the owner just shows up and works there whenever he wants to. Does not take credit cards, so you can only fill up when he's there.

O man, forgot about that place!

I was about to run out of gas one time and stopped there because it was the only station I could make it to...I was incredibly hung over on a sunday morning and just stared at the pump for about 5 minutes trying to find the place that takes your card.

The owner was driving by and stopped. I explained that all I had was cards and just needed some gas to make it back to manhattan. The guy gave me a couple of gallons for free and I was on my way.

That right there should be disqualify alta vista.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Stevesie60 on December 19, 2012, 04:39:54 PM
1. Proximity to Manhattan? It's a 20 minute drive if you're flying.
2. Low crime rate is a myth. The park gets vandalized all the time. Lots of underage smokers, too.
3. Already covered the gas station.
4. Was unaware of the barber shop.
5. Have not been in the bar.
6. Restaurant is awful. You get to choose one of two plates. Both are awful.
7. Grocery store is not sufficient. Everyone that lives there drives to Manhattan or Council Grove to shop. Can you imagine that? "Well honey, we're out of batteries" "Okay, I'll run to Manhattan, be back in an hour!"
8. This is a plus. It smells amazing. Like you're in the middle of a beautiful prairie, surrounded by thousands of wild flowers.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 19, 2012, 04:46:41 PM
Jakesie must have relatives in AV too.

1. Other than the old people living in and around AV, who drives slow?
2. The park recently got decked out with all new equipment, much nicer than when I was a kid.
3. Gas station owner will patch the tire on your bicycle for free
4. He sits outside his shop and talks to everyone, very nice guy with an incredible beard.
5. The bar is a typical small town bar, not much going on. They have karaoke once a week, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
6. Restaurant has a serviceable chicken fried steak, pizza night on Wednesdays, unlimited salad bar for three bucks.
7. If you run out of batteries, butter or milk the grocery store works in a pinch. If you're going to buy two weeks of groceries you go to Manhattan or Council Grove.
8. Really does smell good.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Stevesie60 on December 19, 2012, 04:52:22 PM
Jakesie must have relatives in AV too.


I did. They have recently moved. I used to go there once a week to see them.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 19, 2012, 04:52:47 PM
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to live in AV, but it does not belong in the running for the Coffeyville Cup.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 19, 2012, 04:57:46 PM
I think we should remove any town that has a liquor store from consideration. This may only leave towns below the bubbles line, but I'm not sure.  Any towns above the bubbles line that have neither a liquor store, nor a bar, might as well not even exist.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: PowercatPat on December 19, 2012, 06:19:12 PM
Probably Topeka.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: wetwillie on December 19, 2012, 06:24:29 PM
Has anyone said Council Grove?  Cause that's the right answer
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on December 19, 2012, 06:39:18 PM
HortonPAK to end this discussion?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 19, 2012, 10:34:39 PM
Colwich is pretty awful. 

   They have an alcohol plant just east of town.  It make the entire place reek of fermented milo.  There is a new business that engineers/invents new industrial equipment, but they lay people off as fast as they hire.  The town had a nice ball diamond but the ball club sold it to the school district so they could expand the grade school yet they still have mobile unit class rooms.   :dunno:  The new diamonds are ok but are depressing because all the new trees and shrubs planted are dying because of the record drought. 

   There is a power plant just east of town that caught on fire last week and will cost $8 million to repair the damage.  Also a forest of radio/tv towers litter the eastern horizon.  You would think that your radio would be able to pick up a signal on the other side of the planet being so close to all those towers.  Nope all you get is static.  The cooling towers from the power plant produce their own clouds some times.  The radio towers are also magnets for lightning strikes wich almost makes the towers worth while but still an eye sore 99%  of the year. 

   Oh and the town water treatment facility is just west of town 50 yrds south of the main road and on hot days your car's a/c will blow the cent of human crap in your face.  It's a late entry but feels like a strong contender to me.  The only thing saving this town is being in close proximity to Wichita.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 19, 2012, 10:38:46 PM
Probably Topeka.

Which podunk western ks trash hole are you from?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Chico on December 19, 2012, 11:56:46 PM
Does anyone know if Potwin is a crappy place to live?  I know they have a large feedlot just southwest of town.  Could qualify under chunkles rule.

Can confirm that Potwin the town is not a great place to live but the country outside of it is magnificent.  I got a good whiff going to school every morning and it smelled like money was pouring out of the Circle E Feedlot.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bubbles4ksu on December 19, 2012, 11:59:37 PM
Colwich is pretty.

totally agree.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 20, 2012, 12:33:08 AM
Colwich is pretty.

totally agree.


lol bubbles  :cheers:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: PowercatPat on December 20, 2012, 02:07:20 AM
Probably Topeka.

Which podunk western ks trash hole are you from?

Mt. Sunflower
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 20, 2012, 07:05:59 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Western KS smells like money. SE KS smells like ass.

 :lol:


I'm glad to see SEK represented so well, something to hang their hat on.  Parsons, C'ville, Chetopa, Galena, Girard, Oswego...........I'll nominate Humbolt.  Biblesta.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j-dub on December 20, 2012, 07:11:16 AM
Wellsville is pretty shitty

can confirm. also la cygne. and blue mound. and garnett. and parker.

Those are all disqualified because you made them up.

i wish linn county was made up. as coal aggie is to the nation, so linn county is to kansas. (garnett is not in linn county)
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 20, 2012, 07:20:02 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Western KS smells like money. SE KS smells like ass.

 :lol:


I'm glad to see SEK represented so well, something to hang their hat on.  Parsons, C'ville, Chetopa, Galena, Girard, Oswego...........I'll nominate Humbolt.  Biblesta.

You can't take away big Brutus and Little Balkans Days (maybe the most WTF "Days" event I've stumbled across).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Johnny Wichita on December 20, 2012, 07:34:35 AM
Lots of amazing emaws from Colwich. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 20, 2012, 07:36:48 AM
What is wrong with Big Brutus? Do you think those beautiful strip pits made themselves?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 20, 2012, 07:37:17 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Western KS smells like money. SE KS smells like ass.

 :lol:


I'm glad to see SEK represented so well, something to hang their hat on.  Parsons, C'ville, Chetopa, Galena, Girard, Oswego...........I'll nominate Humbolt.  Biblesta.

You can't take away big Brutus and Little Balkans Days (maybe the most WTF "Days" event I've stumbled across).

Also don't understand Katy Days in Parsons.  Celebrate a railroad that took a giant dump on the town, talk about low self-esteem.  Drove around town and noticed how they use plywood as window treatment, amazing. :thumbsup:

I've been through Horton and it's a shithole but I'll throw my vote behind C'ville.......tops.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 20, 2012, 07:39:22 AM
SE quadrant is the worst overall. I don't think it is even close, although the fact that Horton is in the NE quadrant made me hesitate.

No way. Western KS is terrible.
Western KS smells like money. SE KS smells like ass.

 :lol:


I'm glad to see SEK represented so well, something to hang their hat on.  Parsons, C'ville, Chetopa, Galena, Girard, Oswego...........I'll nominate Humbolt.  Biblesta.

You can't take away big Brutus and Little Balkans Days (maybe the most WTF "Days" event I've stumbled across).

Also don't understand Katy Days in Parsons.  Celebrate a railroad that took a giant dump on the town, talk about low self-esteem.  Drove around town and noticed how they use plywood as window treatment, amazing. :thumbsup:

I've been through Horton and it's a shithole but I'll throw my vote behind C'ville.......tops.

You can't throw your vote behind Coffeyville, it is already #1.

The reason for the plywood boards in Parsons is because of the tornado that went through. So, it was 4 years ago. Big deal.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 20, 2012, 07:55:39 AM
So I can't vote for the current leader?  Drive around Parsons sometimes with open eyes.....these homes are condemned and not from the tornado 12 yrs ago.

Get your crap straight.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 20, 2012, 07:59:03 AM
So I can't vote for the current leader?  Drive around Parsons sometimes with open eyes.....these homes are condemned and not from the tornado 12 yrs ago.

Get your crap straight.

This is for the 2nd worst. Coffeyville is the undisputed worst.

Has it been 12 years already? I was being sarcastic. I don't drive around Parsons, just through it about 4 or 5 times a year.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 20, 2012, 08:03:41 AM
So I can't vote for the current leader?  Drive around Parsons sometimes with open eyes.....these homes are condemned and not from the tornado 12 yrs ago.

Get your crap straight.

This is for the 2nd worst. Coffeyville is the undisputed worst.

Has it been 12 years already? I was being sarcastic. I don't drive around Parsons, just through it about 4 or 5 times a year.

I'm good with that.  #2 Parsons. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 20, 2012, 08:22:32 AM
Colwich also has a failed lumber yard.  The owner has been trying to sell the property for about a decade.  Has been reduced to trying to rent.  No takers so far.  Have you ever smelled fermented milo.  It is flavo-ass with a tangy twist.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 20, 2012, 08:28:44 AM
Parsons has some neighborhoods that are actually pretty nice. Most of those people send their kids to school at Altamont, but choose to live in Parsons. For this reason alone, I have a hard time believing they are actually second worst. I mean, why not just move to Altamont if Parsons is so bad?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 20, 2012, 08:29:58 AM
Parsons has some neighborhoods that are actually pretty nice. Most of those people send their kids to school at Altamont, but choose to live in Parsons. For this reason alone, I have a hard time believing they are actually second worst. I mean, why not just move to Altamont if Parsons is so bad?

No Super Walmart in Altamont.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 20, 2012, 08:31:17 AM
Parsons has some neighborhoods that are actually pretty nice. Most of those people send their kids to school at Altamont, but choose to live in Parsons. For this reason alone, I have a hard time believing they are actually second worst. I mean, why not just move to Altamont if Parsons is so bad?

No Super Walmart in Altamont.

They drive their kids to school at Altamont five days per week, though. Wouldn't it be better to drive to the Super Walmart in Parsons once per week?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 20, 2012, 08:40:50 AM
Parsons has some neighborhoods that are actually pretty nice. Most of those people send their kids to school at Altamont, but choose to live in Parsons. For this reason alone, I have a hard time believing they are actually second worst. I mean, why not just move to Altamont if Parsons is so bad?

No Super Walmart in Altamont.

They drive their kids to school at Altamont five days per week, though. Wouldn't it be better to drive to the Super Walmart in Parsons once per week?

Valid point. Maybe they carpool to school.

When I was in high school, Labette Co. was one of the nicest high schools around.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 20, 2012, 10:46:50 AM
Altamont is pretty bland. Nothing super depressing other than the abandoned rest home on the main intersection. Possibly the best bball gym in the SEK. Also, liquor store! But maybe below the bubbles line.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 20, 2012, 01:18:49 PM
Colwich also has a failed lumber yard.  The owner has been trying to sell the property for about a decade.  Has been reduced to trying to rent.  No takers so far.  Have you ever smelled fermented milo.  It is flavo-ass with a tangy twist.

I got really PAK'd in Colwich once. Not sure how that adds to the discussion  :dunno:

Colwich does have a liquor store and a bar.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on December 20, 2012, 02:20:04 PM
Colwich also has a failed lumber yard.  The owner has been trying to sell the property for about a decade.  Has been reduced to trying to rent.  No takers so far.  Have you ever smelled fermented milo.  It is flavo-ass with a tangy twist.

I got really PAK'd in Colwich once. Not sure how that adds to the discussion  :dunno:

Colwich does have a liquor store and a bar.

Colwich now has TWO bars. In celebration, a small group of friends did a pub crawl there last Christmas.

The town has plenty of drawbacks, sure:

Super religious anti-abortion signs in every field
Crazy guitar lady at church
Lady who thinks there is an angel living in her barn
Sign at city limit that states "Home of Joel Weber, Speedboat Champion" or something
Priest forbid alcohol during receptions held in church assembly hall (This ban may have since been overturned.)
Ethanol plant

But it has pros:

Gambino's Pizza
Two bars, both serving food
Liquor store
Gas station that had the arcade version of Double Dragon for like 3 months in 1987
Small grocery store sells meat from Goddard locker
Elite Co-op
5 minutes from new hospital, 10 minutes from West Wichita

Colwich does not belong in this discussion. If you want a candidate for worst town in Western Sedgwick County, go with Garden Plain.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: waks on December 20, 2012, 02:44:46 PM
Since I typically avoid small, shitty Kansas towns (except for Lincoln Center three times a year :bang:), my knowledge on the subject is fairly limited. However, my vote goes to Westmoreland.

I had a friend move there in junior high and went to visit him once. What do the kids do for fun there? They go hangout in a cemetery.

All but two of the people I met there had spent a night in jail within the last month (all for separate reasons). Additionally, on more than five occasions, my buddy successfully fled from the cop(s?) by simply cutting across a field.

I was also stunned to find that literally everyone I met, regardless of age, chewed tobacco or smoked cigarettes. How did minors obtain their tobacco? From the local mom and pop's grocery store, of course.

It was a horrible place.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 20, 2012, 03:27:59 PM
So I can't vote for the current leader?  Drive around Parsons sometimes with open eyes.....these homes are condemned and not from the tornado 12 yrs ago.

Get your crap straight.

This is for the 2nd worst. Coffeyville is the undisputed worst.

Has it been 12 years already? I was being sarcastic. I don't drive around Parsons, just through it about 4 or 5 times a year.

Was a student-athlete at JUCO in Coffeyville for 2 years.  First week I was there a basketball player got shot in the ass ON CAMPUS.

The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bunter on December 20, 2012, 05:00:19 PM
The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.

Define "easy on the eyes" - Still standing condemned oil soaked houses.

I lived in C'ville for a year (CCC!).  In a town known for bank robberies (check out the Dalton Gang) I was locked down on campus one night when a man robbed the Bank of America and killed an onlooker while in a shoot out with police after being chased down on his bike.

I vote Sedan for #2. I thought it was a junkyard when I first drove through it. They have a nice museum at least:

http://sd2cx1.webring.org/l/rd?ring=kssites;id=15;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eemmettkellymuseum%2Ecom%2F
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: AbeFroman on December 20, 2012, 05:08:23 PM
I'm not going to pretend like I know anything about SE or SW Kansas because I would never go there, but the worst town in Kansas I've been to is WaKeeney.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 20, 2012, 05:33:26 PM
Quote
The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.

yeah, more green space now, less dumpy.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 20, 2012, 09:49:42 PM
Colwich is pretty awful. 

   They have an alcohol plant just east of town.  It make the entire place reek of fermented milo.  There is a new business that engineers/invents new industrial equipment, but they lay people off as fast as they hire.  The town had a nice ball diamond but the ball club sold it to the school district so they could expand the grade school yet they still have mobile unit class rooms.   :dunno:  The new diamonds are ok but are depressing because all the new trees and shrubs planted are dying because of the record drought. 

   There is a power plant just east of town that caught on fire last week and will cost $8 million to repair the damage.  Also a forest of radio/tv towers litter the eastern horizon.  You would think that your radio would be able to pick up a signal on the other side of the planet being so close to all those towers.  Nope all you get is static.  The cooling towers from the power plant produce their own clouds some times.  The radio towers are also magnets for lightning strikes wich almost makes the towers worth while but still an eye sore 99%  of the year. 

   Oh and the town water treatment facility is just west of town 50 yrds south of the main road and on hot days your car's a/c will blow the cent of human crap in your face.  It's a late entry but feels like a strong contender to me.  The only thing saving this town is being in close proximity to Wichita.

Not alcohol plants, biofuel.  Abengoa is elite.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Johnny Wichita on December 21, 2012, 08:56:54 AM
Colwich now has TWO bars. In celebration, a small group of friends did a pub crawl there last Christmas.

The town has plenty of drawbacks, sure:

Super religious anti-abortion signs in every field
Crazy guitar lady at church
Lady who thinks there is an angel living in her barn
Sign at city limit that states "Home of Joel Weber, Speedboat Champion" or something
Priest forbid alcohol during receptions held in church assembly hall (This ban may have since been overturned.)
Ethanol plant

But it has pros:

Gambino's Pizza
Two bars, both serving food
Liquor store
Gas station that had the arcade version of Double Dragon for like 3 months in 1987
Small grocery store sells meat from Goddard locker
Elite Co-op
5 minutes from new hospital, 10 minutes from West Wichita

Colwich does not belong in this discussion. If you want a candidate for worst town in Western Sedgwick County, go with Garden Plain.

I'm certain we are at least friends of friends. 
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 21, 2012, 09:00:45 AM
Home of Speedboat Champion just surged on to the small kansas towns fanningbrag leader board.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 22, 2012, 10:50:04 AM

Colwich does not belong in this discussion. If you want a candidate for worst town in Western Sedgwick County, go with Garden Plain.

Garden Plain has the best small town 4th of July parade in the state, maybe even the entire country.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on December 25, 2012, 06:19:05 PM
What a depressing thread.  Thought there'd be a winner (loser?) by page 15.

If you're from, still know people in, are god forbid still yourself are in one of these crap towns, you should let me know, so that when I'm trying to locate people I've sued or want to sue that come from these places, I can use you to skip trace them.  steve dave is combing Meade for one of these folks as we speak.  Gooch and I went undercover in a bar that, while in Wichita, belonged in a worst down in KS candidate on Sunday.

Do I have any Manter, KS insiders?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on December 25, 2012, 07:10:43 PM
What a depressing thread.  Thought there'd be a winner (loser?) by page 15.

If you're from, still know people in, are god forbid still yourself are in one of these crap towns, you should let me know, so that when I'm trying to locate people I've sued or want to sue that come from these places, I can use you to skip trace them.  steve dave is combing Meade for one of these folks as we speak.  Gooch and I went undercover in a bar that, while in Wichita, belonged in a worst down in KS candidate on Sunday.

Do I have any Manter, KS insiders?

Driven thru there many times heading out to the great mountains of Colorado. Only thing I can tell you is they have a sign of some famous rodeo/bullrider guy that is/was from there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on December 25, 2012, 07:43:35 PM
What a depressing thread.  Thought there'd be a winner (loser?) by page 15.

If you're from, still know people in, are god forbid still yourself are in one of these crap towns, you should let me know, so that when I'm trying to locate people I've sued or want to sue that come from these places, I can use you to skip trace them.  steve dave is combing Meade for one of these folks as we speak.  Gooch and I went undercover in a bar that, while in Wichita, belonged in a worst down in KS candidate on Sunday.

Do I have any Manter, KS insiders?

Driven thru there many times heading out to the great mountains of Colorado. Only thing I can tell you is they have a sign of some famous rodeo/bullrider guy that is/was from there.

The guy I'm trying to locate isn't a rodeo/bullrider guy.  When are you passing back through?  Maybe you can stop in town and ask around?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on December 25, 2012, 07:52:01 PM
What a depressing thread.  Thought there'd be a winner (loser?) by page 15.

If you're from, still know people in, are god forbid still yourself are in one of these crap towns, you should let me know, so that when I'm trying to locate people I've sued or want to sue that come from these places, I can use you to skip trace them.  steve dave is combing Meade for one of these folks as we speak.  Gooch and I went undercover in a bar that, while in Wichita, belonged in a worst down in KS candidate on Sunday.

Do I have any Manter, KS insiders?

Driven thru there many times heading out to the great mountains of Colorado. Only thing I can tell you is they have a sign of some famous rodeo/bullrider guy that is/was from there.

The guy I'm trying to locate isn't a rodeo/bullrider guy.  When are you passing back through?  Maybe you can stop in town and ask around?

Earliest chance would be June, your next option is October.

PS the truck stop/gas station in Johnson City is a must stop, nothing till the mountains. Also what looks like an enjoyable golf course. Should Johnson City be in the 2nd best town thread??
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 26, 2012, 08:42:13 AM

The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.

Yes, the flood wiped out 1/3 of the town, but it was the shittiest part of town so it increased the average home value in town. Also because of the oil, the refinery paid the homeowners 110% of the pre-flood value of the homes that had oil damage - so those people actually ended up better off after the flood.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on December 26, 2012, 11:08:24 AM

The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.

Yes, the flood wiped out 1/3 of the town, but it was the shittiest part of town so it increased the average home value in town. Also because of the oil, the refinery paid the homeowners 110% of the pre-flood value of the homes that had oil damage - so those people actually ended up better off after the flood.

Better off = able to buy cigarettes on the kansas side during the week until the Sunday south coffeyville run to buy beer through the drive thru window of a gas station.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on December 26, 2012, 11:11:18 AM
Colwich/Andale (same diff) definitely get knocked down a peg for having like 3 last names between the two towns.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 26, 2012, 11:19:51 AM

The "Great Flood" happened between my frosh and soph years, may have actually helped the city not be so shitty.

Yes, the flood wiped out 1/3 of the town, but it was the shittiest part of town so it increased the average home value in town. Also because of the oil, the refinery paid the homeowners 110% of the pre-flood value of the homes that had oil damage - so those people actually ended up better off after the flood.

Better off = able to buy cigarettes on the kansas side during the week until the Sunday south coffeyville run to buy beer through the drive thru window of a gas station.

No, better off meaning they took their 110% and their super low interest rate FEMA loan and moved to a slightly less shitty town in Kansas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on December 26, 2012, 11:28:43 AM
Colwich/Andale (same diff) definitely get knocked down a peg for having like 3 last names between the two towns.

Dont leave St Marks off that list.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 26, 2012, 11:40:39 AM
Colwich/Andale (same diff) definitely get knocked down a peg for having like 3 last names between the two towns.

Dont leave St Marks off that list.

and St. Joe Crusaders.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: DQ12 on December 26, 2012, 01:08:02 PM
Emporia, I'd say.

I hate Emporia with every fiber of my being.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 26, 2012, 08:26:03 PM
Let's call this thing now.

Garden City, 2nd worst city in KS.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on December 26, 2012, 10:54:20 PM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 26, 2012, 11:00:19 PM
Awful list but thanks for the effort
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bones129 on December 26, 2012, 11:05:55 PM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)

Very interesting approach. It reminds me of a developing tournament bracket. Is that where we're headed, Reboulet? If so, it's a bit unbalanced in numbers, so who will get the crucial first round byes? :dance:
Title: Re: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 26, 2012, 11:08:20 PM

Very interesting approach. It reminds me of a developing tournament bracket. Is that where we're headed, Reboulet? If so, it's a bit unbalanced in numbers, so who will get the crucial first round byes? :dance:

I don't think Jeff Reboulet gets any say in the matter.
Title: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on December 29, 2012, 08:27:13 AM
Fanningbrag slogan nominee

Wakeeny: It's Affordable.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: tnuss on December 30, 2012, 02:48:09 PM
My high school league from best to worst. I might be forgetting a few, but none of these places are worth remembering.

Hillsboro: Clean living people close to McPherson which is one of the better towns in KS
Hesston: More clean living people with decent jobs
Lindsborg-Smoky Valley: People dedicated to their Swedish culture, weird but not messy

Wichita-Collegiate: actually idk where this goes, probably #1

Hoistington - Just a town on K-4
Haven- Ahead of the curve for declining rural towns
Sterling - Boring people doing drugs for ANY sense of excitement
Ellinwood - Oily yet poor
Marion - Always got a hillbilly feel from these people

Nickerson: My god. A suburb of Hutchinson. Voodooville would be a more appropriate name. Poor and mean.
nice job forgetting lyons
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Lemonrock on December 30, 2012, 07:50:24 PM
Colwich and Garden Plain tie. Nothing respectable in either town really, and the parade in Garden Plain is some of the dumbest crap I have ever seen, ever. Worse than ku football this year, simply deplorable.
Title: Re: 2nd Best Town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on January 06, 2013, 09:47:58 PM
GC won this thing like a week ago, you meade supporters need to build a bridge
Title: Re: 2nd Best Town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on January 07, 2013, 08:45:16 AM
GC won this thing like a week ago

agreed
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: OK_Cat on January 07, 2013, 08:55:33 AM
 :shakesfist:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 88wildcat on January 07, 2013, 09:04:30 AM
DNR entire thread but I'm sure Emporia got some good play

It has two Braums which automatically disqualifies it.  Besides the glory days of the entire town smelling like burning cow hide due to IBP are long gone.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on January 07, 2013, 09:05:27 AM
DNR entire thread but I'm sure Emporia got some good play

It has two Braums which automatically disqualifies it.  Besides the glory days of the entire town smelling like burning cow hide due to IBP are long gone.

Braums rockets it to the top of the rankings with GC if anything
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: wabash909 on January 07, 2013, 09:12:04 AM
I second 'clams nomination of Westwood Hills, Kansas.

Also known as the "The Most Beautiful Little City in Kansas".

Learn more here about this wonderful treasure...

http://www.westwoodhills.org/ (http://www.westwoodhills.org/)

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 88wildcat on January 07, 2013, 09:37:20 AM
Horton. Words cannot describe that god awful place. It wins, if you haven't been there, give thanks to whomever or whatever you believe in that you have been able to live your life to this point without having to go to Horton. Go party it up in Galena, or Hiawatha, or Liberal, or Oakley. Ask Santa for a customer made t-shirt that says, "At least I am not in Horton."

Is that the town that is on the way from MHK to 'chita that is right by the round-a-bout that has a water tower that looks like a big cigarette??

If so, yeah, pretty shitty town.

Pretty sure that is Florence you are describing.


I would think Peabody would have been mentioned by now.  Any town whose nickname is Urineville should get a first round bye in this tournament.

Ness City should also get a mention.  The town's claim to fame is having one of their residents get stuck to her toilet seat for two years.

Other nominations
Carbondale
Quenemo
Jetmore (desolation capital of Kansas-drive on K-156 from Larned to Garden City is absolutely the worst drive in the state)
any town on US-56 west of Dodge City

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: tdaver on January 10, 2013, 10:27:08 AM
I think this wraps it up.  Send the trophy to Horton.

http://cjonline.com/sports/2013-01-09/kshsaa-places-horton-new-nek

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Horton had spent the past several months seeking a league after it was announced last June that the Delaware Valley League would be disbanding with the withdrawal of eight schools — Immaculata, Jackson Heights, Jefferson North, Maur Hill-Mt. Academy, McLouth, Oskaloosa, Pleasant Ridge and Valley Falls. Those schools broke away from the 14-team league to form the Northeast Kansas League, expressing their desire to be a part of a smaller league.

The ensuing ripple effect left Horton, Doniphan West, Atchison County, Riverside and Troy searching for homes and all but Horton were successful. Atchison County and Riverside will join the Big Seven League, while Doniphan West and Troy were accepted into the Twin Valley League.

Horton applied for membership into both leagues, but was denied by league votes — a 5-3 margin in the Big Seven and an 8-3-1 margin in the Twin Valley. That left Horton without a league and led to their request to be placed in one by the KSHSAA.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 'taterblast on January 10, 2013, 10:28:01 AM
take it to the Cigars thread
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mr Bread on January 10, 2013, 10:30:07 AM
I hate this thread. :clac:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on January 10, 2013, 10:36:45 AM
Any list with Lansing on it is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).  Not saying it's a great place, just not awful.  Lots of nice neighborhoods on the south side of town (homes $400k+), plenty of military officers who have lived all over the world (including international officers studying at the CGSC), good school district. 

Obvious cons are the prison and proximity to Leavenworth.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Perry on January 10, 2013, 11:18:27 AM
Any list with Lansing on it is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).  Not saying it's a great place, just not awful.  Lots of nice neighborhoods on the south side of town (homes $400k+), plenty of military officers who have lived all over the world (including international officers studying at the CGSC), good school district. 

Obvious cons are the prison and proximity to Leavenworth.

Agreed, though I'm biased some as I lived there from middle school through high school. Proximity to Legends is another nice part of Lansing that should help keep it off any of these lists.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kitten_mittons on January 10, 2013, 12:28:48 PM
What should keep Lansing off is the fact that it isn't worse than Leavenworth.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on January 10, 2013, 12:55:44 PM
Good enough for me kittons_mittons.  :cheers:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on June 27, 2013, 03:01:38 PM
http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=27724&format=html (http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=27724&format=html)

(http://www.ksallink.com/media/media.php?id=27793&path=2013-06-27&type=jpg&mode=constrain&width=375&height=900)

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Police: Cyclist Had Meth Lab in Backpack

Associated Press - Wed 07:13 PM 06/26/2013

Police say a search of the backpack turned up what they called an active, "one-pot" mobile meth lab.
If only he'd been riding in the street, a bicyclist who Pittsburg police say had a meth lab in his backpack might have gone unnoticed.

But the 29-year-old man from Nevada, Mo., caught the eye of an officer in the southeast Kansas community Tuesday morning because he was riding on a sidewalk.

The officer tried to make contact with the bicyclist. The man instead rode away before he was stopped a few blocks away.

Police say a search of his backpack turned up what they called an active, "one-pot" mobile meth lab. The man was arrested on suspicion of making and possessing methamphetamine, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, and obstruction.

He also got a ticket for riding a bike on the sidewalk.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 27, 2013, 03:03:54 PM
http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=27724&format=html (http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=27724&format=html)

(http://www.ksallink.com/media/media.php?id=27793&path=2013-06-27&type=jpg&mode=constrain&width=375&height=900)

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Police: Cyclist Had Meth Lab in Backpack

Associated Press - Wed 07:13 PM 06/26/2013

Police say a search of the backpack turned up what they called an active, "one-pot" mobile meth lab.
If only he'd been riding in the street, a bicyclist who Pittsburg police say had a meth lab in his backpack might have gone unnoticed.

But the 29-year-old man from Nevada, Mo., caught the eye of an officer in the southeast Kansas community Tuesday morning because he was riding on a sidewalk.

The officer tried to make contact with the bicyclist. The man instead rode away before he was stopped a few blocks away.

Police say a search of his backpack turned up what they called an active, "one-pot" mobile meth lab. The man was arrested on suspicion of making and possessing methamphetamine, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, and obstruction.

He also got a ticket for riding a bike on the sidewalk.

To be fair to Pittsburg, the man was from Nevada, MO. He was just passing through town on the sidewalk.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on June 27, 2013, 03:05:25 PM
forgot how great this thread is
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on June 27, 2013, 03:07:26 PM
Man... I used to ride my bike on the sidewalk all the time.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 27, 2013, 03:13:47 PM
Man... I used to ride my bike on the sidewalk all the time.

Times have changed, CFoD. What used to be a fool proof plan for cooking meth on the go is now a ticket to disaster. I think that the cops might be watching Breaking Bad and taking notes to get some sort of insight into the criminal mind.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on June 28, 2013, 09:00:20 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: paulnyakatura on June 28, 2013, 09:08:47 AM
Prairie Village. 'Cause eff those rich bastards.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 28, 2013, 09:16:43 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.

Which state are you from?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on June 28, 2013, 09:17:17 AM
Prairie Village. 'Cause eff those rich bastards.

3 bedrooms 1 bath 1 car garage?  They're not rich.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on June 28, 2013, 09:38:55 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.

Which state are you from?

Oh the same rules should apply to a Missouri thread of similar nature. I don't really have any small-town relatives either though, so that could be part of the  :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 28, 2013, 09:44:53 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.

Which state are you from?

Oh the same rules should apply to a Missouri thread of similar nature. I don't really have any small-town relatives either though, so that could be part of the  :sdeek:

I bet a worst town in Missouri thread would be much more depressing than the Kansas thread. The worst towns in Kansas can attribute most of their problems from spillover from SW Missouri and NE Oklahoma, after all. It's just too bad we don't have more mocats to really get one going.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on June 28, 2013, 09:58:25 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.

Which state are you from?

Oh the same rules should apply to a Missouri thread of similar nature. I don't really have any small-town relatives either though, so that could be part of the  :sdeek:

I bet a worst town in Missouri thread would be much more depressing than the Kansas thread. The worst towns in Kansas can attribute most of their problems from spillover from SW Missouri and NE Oklahoma, after all. It's just too bad we don't have more mocats to really get one going.

I don't disagree with you, Nuts Kicked. 2nd worst town in Missouri thread would be very enjoyable. Less hicks and more hillbillies. Less herp derp more meth derp, imo

I do not know much about Missouri towns though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on June 28, 2013, 09:58:58 AM
Just saw this thread...after traveling extensivley for 10 years to every corner of Kansas for my former job, I feel well qualified to add to this discussion.  There are several glaring omissions:

Kingman
Protection
Ashland
Longton

Agree with these two that were mentioned: Eureka and Elwood

My worst would probably be Protection, however I never had to stay the night there...as far as a location that had the means to support overnight out of town visitors, I'd have to go with Elwood, with Kingman coming a close second.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WildcatNkilt on June 28, 2013, 10:03:05 AM
Just saw this thread...after traveling extensivley for 10 years to every corner of Kansas for my former job, I feel well qualified to add to this discussion.  There are several glaring omissions:

Kingman
Protection
Ashland
Longton

Agree with these two that were mentioned: Eureka and Elwood

My worst would probably be Protection, however I never had to stay the night there...as far as a location that had the means to support overnight out of town visitors, I'd have to go with Elwood, with Kingman coming a close second.

Oh man...you definitely mentioned my home town.  Thats ok though...I think it sucks too.  I hear they are getting a new hotel though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on June 29, 2013, 09:03:23 AM
I bet you see no less than 20 anti-abortion signs between Pittsburg and Galena.

I don't think Parsons is in the same discussion as some of these other towns. It's kind of old and run down but it's not terrible.

Parsons also has a decent medical facility.  It couldn't be that bad.

One of my facebook friends had a friend who died at the Parsons hospital getting his tonsils taken out last year. You might want to reassess that.

They offered Mrs. BF a job and a free house.   :dunno:

Heard an NPR thing this year about how small towns in western KS is adopting the Doctors Without Boarders method of attracting new doctors to come to Western KS to serve time.

FR_BIL is a pretty elite oncologist currently serving indentured servitude in Hutch. He is NOT impressed by the space museum and would probably vote Hutch for the Mrs Gooch Coffeyville Gross Fights at Fairgrounds after the Demo Derby Trophy brought to you by abandoned Dairy Queens and Frito Pies.

I've been to the demolition derby at Coffeyville!  Would like to hear more about this post-derby fight.  I know passions run deep for fave demolition derby drivers, but this sounds exceptional.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on June 29, 2013, 09:48:47 AM
If you aren't naming SE Kansas towns, you have no place in this thread.

Also, Stockton or Washington or Baldwin City
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on June 29, 2013, 10:23:17 AM
I feel sorry for you guys.

I grew up in the burbs of Sedgwick Co. And although we grew up in crap, we were close to professional crap that was tolerable (Wichatitty). 

One things for sure is that the girlie count made up for a lot of things.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Willesgirl on June 29, 2013, 11:21:47 AM
If you aren't naming SE Kansas towns, you have no place in this thread.

Also, Stockton or Washington or Baldwin City

Baldwin City is adorable, FSD. You shut your mouth.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: DQ12 on June 29, 2013, 11:32:47 AM
Baldwin City isn't really "southeast" ks
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on November 27, 2013, 12:12:02 AM
dear god, sorry you all have wasted so much of your day.  I couldn't post until just now.  Anywho:

JFC IT'S LARNED

does your 2nd worst town have two feedlots on either side of it, producing a fine dusting of crap smell no matter which direction the wind is blowing? 
What is missing in your oh so horrible, yet non-crap smell town? 

El Dorado, LOL (lived there. it smells, but not like crap) has a community college and an awesome lake. NOPE.
Rush Center is pud but doesn't smell like crap.  NICE TRY ASSHOLES
Those swedish towns have these cathedrals that are like a mile tall that people enjoy. They also don't smell like crap.  OUT.
Great Bend is called Great Bend because of the river that bends within the town.  It has a river.  Smells shitty sometimes... river auto-disqualifies.
Ark City is bad.  Blackface mayor guy from a few years ago, desperately tries to be in Oklahoma, yet no discernable crap smell. eff OFF THEN.
Dodge City.  Very tempting choice.  Pig crap smell is worse than cow crap.  Still, history and new cultures are fun, right?
lest we forget Kansas City Kansas is in Kansas.  Raceway/legends is basically Edwardsville, so eff off.  That said, no unavoidable crap smell.

Larned.  Nothing to see there.  Fort Larned is like other boring forts, except when you're done visiting you just go back to smelling crap all day in a boring crap-smell town.  Funfact: Larned has no funfacts because it is goddamn full of shattered dreams and constant crap smell.

Gene Keady.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on November 27, 2013, 12:15:27 AM
It's easily dodge city, followed closely by garden city

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(prospective) Gunpowder Girls

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/article/20131126/NEWS/131129541/1001/NEWS

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: chunkles on November 27, 2013, 12:31:11 AM
Gene Keady.

Also Gary Patterson (basically within the greater Larned Metropolitan Area)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: AbeFroman on November 27, 2013, 09:53:16 AM
It's easily dodge city, followed closely by garden city

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(prospective) Gunpowder Girls

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/article/20131126/NEWS/131129541/1001/NEWS

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(http://www.dodgeglobe.com/storyimage/KS/20131126/NEWS/131129541/EP/1/1/EP-131129541.jpg&MaxW=650&MaxH=650)

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Nice post, Fitz
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on November 27, 2013, 09:54:15 AM
Nice post, Fitz

It's news.  Vodka.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on November 27, 2013, 05:25:29 PM
 :frown:
Quinter.

One of the cutest girls I've ever met is from Quinter. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on November 27, 2013, 05:27:42 PM
dear god, sorry you all have wasted so much of your day.  I couldn't post until just now.  Anywho:

JFC IT'S LARNED

does your 2nd worst town have two feedlots on either side of it, producing a fine dusting of crap smell no matter which direction the wind is blowing? 
What is missing in your oh so horrible, yet non-crap smell town? 

El Dorado, LOL (lived there. it smells, but not like crap) has a community college and an awesome lake. NOPE.
Rush Center is pud but doesn't smell like crap.  NICE TRY ASSHOLES
Those swedish towns have these cathedrals that are like a mile tall that people enjoy. They also don't smell like crap.  OUT.
Great Bend is called Great Bend because of the river that bends within the town.  It has a river.  Smells shitty sometimes... river auto-disqualifies.
Ark City is bad.  Blackface mayor guy from a few years ago, desperately tries to be in Oklahoma, yet no discernable crap smell. eff OFF THEN.
Dodge City.  Very tempting choice.  Pig crap smell is worse than cow crap.  Still, history and new cultures are fun, right?
lest we forget Kansas City Kansas is in Kansas.  Raceway/legends is basically Edwardsville, so eff off.  That said, no unavoidable crap smell.

Larned.  Nothing to see there.  Fort Larned is like other boring forts, except when you're done visiting you just go back to smelling crap all day in a boring crap-smell town.  Funfact: Larned has no funfacts because it is goddamn full of shattered dreams and constant crap smell.

Gene Keady.

Pedophile hospital too.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on November 27, 2013, 05:41:00 PM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)

Very interesting approach. It reminds me of a developing tournament bracket. Is that where we're headed, Reboulet? If so, it's a bit unbalanced in numbers, so who will get the crucial first round byes? :dance:


Haysville easily wins the Sedgwick county title.

This town has been repeatedly hit by tornados but just won't die.

The majority of the houses are  tiny post WWII spec homes and most have dead cars in the yard or out in the street by the curb.

They had a doctor and his wife goto Federal prison for running a pill mill, and they've lost a Dairy Queen too.

Just recently somebody threw a dead body in the ditch across from the high school.

People from this town pause and wait for your laughable response when they tell you they're from there. 

If this place wasn't so close to Wichita it would hands down win the title
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on December 23, 2013, 04:58:00 PM
Holton addressed here, but I was primarily struck by the cousins Kyle Lee Tyler and Kyle James Tyler.

http://cjonline.com/news/2013-12-22/jackson-county-deputies-arrest-3-after-finding-drugs-holton-residence
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on March 27, 2014, 11:11:47 PM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)

Very interesting approach. It reminds me of a developing tournament bracket. Is that where we're headed, Reboulet? If so, it's a bit unbalanced in numbers, so who will get the crucial first round byes? :dance:


Haysville easily wins the Sedgwick county title.

This town has been repeatedly hit by tornados but just won't die.

The majority of the houses are  tiny post WWII spec homes and most have dead cars in the yard or out in the street by the curb.

They had a doctor and his wife goto Federal prison for running a pill mill, and they've lost a Dairy Queen too.

Just recently somebody threw a dead body in the ditch across from the high school.

People from this town pause and wait for your laughable response when they tell you they're from there. 

If this place wasn't so close to Wichita it would hands down win the title


http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/03/27/haysville-leaders-and-residents-are-weary-of-being-portrayed-as-illiterate-bumpkins/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HerrSonntag on March 27, 2014, 11:18:33 PM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)

Very interesting approach. It reminds me of a developing tournament bracket. Is that where we're headed, Reboulet? If so, it's a bit unbalanced in numbers, so who will get the crucial first round byes? :dance:


Haysville easily wins the Sedgwick county title.

This town has been repeatedly hit by tornados but just won't die.

The majority of the houses are  tiny post WWII spec homes and most have dead cars in the yard or out in the street by the curb.

They had a doctor and his wife goto Federal prison for running a pill mill, and they've lost a Dairy Queen too.

Just recently somebody threw a dead body in the ditch across from the high school.

People from this town pause and wait for your laughable response when they tell you they're from there. 

If this place wasn't so close to Wichita it would hands down win the title


http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/03/27/haysville-leaders-and-residents-are-weary-of-being-portrayed-as-illiterate-bumpkins/
gE makes the news again, i'm surprised no links were posted in the article.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on March 31, 2014, 06:07:20 PM
http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/03/28/haysville-has-its-defenders-just-like-gridiron/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on March 31, 2014, 06:20:35 PM
http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/03/28/haysville-has-its-defenders-just-like-gridiron/

"Bullying" is used way too loosely these days.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on March 31, 2014, 08:55:13 PM
http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/03/28/haysville-has-its-defenders-just-like-gridiron/

"Bullying" is used way too loosely these days.
Best Frank Gallagher rant ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ks8gh00DQo
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on April 16, 2014, 11:44:35 AM
I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)

Did we overthink this entire thread? If the worst town in Kansas is Coffeyville, it would logically follow that the second-worst town is the one with a Coffeyville rivalry: Independence.

Googling their rivalry led me to this very depressing discussion of which town's Wal-Mart was better:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD (http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD)
Quote
The over all picture in Indep. is very sad depressing dirty ruin down most important is the extreme cost of everything for no real reason gas, sales tax, property tax,food,nothing to show for the high cost of living here. It won't take much longer as the mass exodus has begun. The only ones left will be the ones who can't leave.

 :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on April 16, 2014, 11:46:59 AM
Meade has an Alco AND a new Mexican restaurant  :surprised:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 16, 2014, 12:51:06 PM
Did we overthink this entire thread? If the worst town in Kansas is Coffeyville, it would logically follow that the second-worst town is the one with a Coffeyville rivalry: Independence.

Googling their rivalry led me to this very depressing discussion of which town's Wal-Mart was better:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD (http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD)
Quote
The over all picture in Indep. is very sad depressing dirty ruin down most important is the extreme cost of everything for no real reason gas, sales tax, property tax,food,nothing to show for the high cost of living here. It won't take much longer as the mass exodus has begun. The only ones left will be the ones who can't leave.

 :sdeek:

 :lol: I can't believe there is a forum where people are seriously discussing the merits of the Coffeyville and Independence Wal-Marts.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HELLHAMMER on April 16, 2014, 01:11:21 PM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: massofcatfan on April 16, 2014, 01:18:20 PM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?

Taco. Hut.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on April 16, 2014, 01:19:17 PM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?

Topographical protection from tornadoes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HELLHAMMER on April 16, 2014, 01:19:31 PM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?

Taco. Hut.

Touche
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on April 16, 2014, 01:29:54 PM
At one time they had the last SUBnStuff.

How did a place so amazing go away?

It was the Chipolte of Subs
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 16, 2014, 01:31:12 PM
At one time they had the last SUBnStuff.

How did a place so amazing go away?

It was the Chipolte of Subs

You're totally one of those people huh?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on April 16, 2014, 01:32:53 PM
At one time they had the last SUBnStuff.

How did a place so amazing go away?

It was the Chipolte of Subs

You're totally one of those people huh?
First ever use of that phrase that is not racist...even when directed at an Indian.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 16, 2014, 01:37:35 PM
At one time they had the last SUBnStuff.

How did a place so amazing go away?

It was the Chipolte of Subs

You're totally one of those people huh?
First ever use of that phrase that is not racist...even when directed at an Indian.

 :Woohoo:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: joda on April 16, 2014, 02:28:41 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on April 16, 2014, 02:49:08 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.

No way is Garnett better than Iola.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheKatsofWar on April 16, 2014, 02:51:29 PM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: joda on April 16, 2014, 02:57:26 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.

No way is Garnett better than Iola.

Garnett is boring as crap, quite possibly the most boring town with 3k+, but from an aesthetics standpoint it blows Iola out of the water. And Garnett isn't that good looking of a town.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on April 16, 2014, 03:00:38 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.

No way is Garnett better than Iola.

Garnett is boring as crap, quite possibly the most boring town with 3k+, but from an aesthetics standpoint it blows Iola out of the water. And Garnett isn't that good looking of a town.

I dare you to find something this nice in Garnett.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LHEN7RRceEs/Uo-4t8qofHI/AAAAAAAAOM8/dY_gMfeZisI/s1600/IMG_8276.JPG)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on April 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Lol @ any 3k population town being more or less boring than any other 3k town. They are all the same and they are all second worst
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: joda on April 16, 2014, 03:12:53 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.

No way is Garnett better than Iola.

Garnett is boring as crap, quite possibly the most boring town with 3k+, but from an aesthetics standpoint it blows Iola out of the water. And Garnett isn't that good looking of a town.

I dare you to find something this nice in Garnett.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LHEN7RRceEs/Uo-4t8qofHI/AAAAAAAAOM8/dY_gMfeZisI/s1600/IMG_8276.JPG)

I mean if you insist
(https://dianastaresinicdeane.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/garnett-kansas-anderson-county-courthouse-may-3-and-4-2013-002.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on April 16, 2014, 03:14:14 PM
Lol @ any 3k population town being more or less boring than any other 3k town. They are all the same and they are all second worst

Nope. You need to have a superfund site to be in the running.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 16, 2014, 04:05:30 PM
My friend from Dighton told me about how this little town got overrun with religious zealots and how all of a sudden teens drinking in fields was a super big huge no no.  They go super butthurt over that all of a sudden.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on April 16, 2014, 08:52:00 PM
I could definitely second the 2nd worst town in KS Independence point, having played in this rivalry they are both absolute shitholes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on April 17, 2014, 06:42:49 AM
Did we overthink this entire thread? If the worst town in Kansas is Coffeyville, it would logically follow that the second-worst town is the one with a Coffeyville rivalry: Independence.

Googling their rivalry led me to this very depressing discussion of which town's Wal-Mart was better:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD (http://www.topix.com/forum/city/independence-ks/TKUV6CESFM70P1ITD)
Quote
The over all picture in Indep. is very sad depressing dirty ruin down most important is the extreme cost of everything for no real reason gas, sales tax, property tax,food,nothing to show for the high cost of living here. It won't take much longer as the mass exodus has begun. The only ones left will be the ones who can't leave.

 :sdeek:

 :lol: I can't believe there is a forum where people are seriously discussing the merits of the Coffeyville and Independence Wal-Marts.

Yes. That is an amazing find, Reboulet.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on April 17, 2014, 07:42:59 AM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?

Carriage Crossing  :love:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: cfbandyman on April 17, 2014, 08:20:27 AM
I unfortunately had a meeting in Hutchinson last week.  What a rough ridin' crap hole, Coffeyville should be hearing footsteps. Why would anyone voluntarily live in Reno County?

Carriage Crossing  :love:

 :drool:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 17, 2014, 08:37:54 AM
I like that golf course in Hutch. Prairie Dunes or whatever.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on April 17, 2014, 09:03:51 AM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:

I dunno, Atchison is kind of quaint. Maybe we will take it, jackass
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on April 17, 2014, 01:12:50 PM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:

I dunno, Atchison is kind of quaint. Maybe we will take it, jackass

Atchison is pretty nice, my guess is the OP hasn't been west of MHK or south of I-70 (unless passing through).  Somewhere SE is KS is calling...
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2014, 01:14:14 PM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:

I dunno, Atchison is kind of quaint. Maybe we will take it, jackass

Then why does it seem to breed so much trash?  All the individuals I've ever met from Atchison have been straight garbage.  Like, try to steal your ipod touch and everyone's phones in the house garbage. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on April 17, 2014, 01:20:41 PM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:

I dunno, Atchison is kind of quaint. Maybe we will take it, jackass

Then why does it seem to breed so much trash?  All the individuals I've ever met from Atchison have been straight garbage.  Like, try to steal your ipod touch and everyone's phones in the house garbage.

Trash tends to hang with trash  :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2014, 01:29:43 PM
Atchison hands down, might as well be in Missouri, maybe they will annex it  :buh-bye:

I dunno, Atchison is kind of quaint. Maybe we will take it, jackass

Then why does it seem to breed so much trash?  All the individuals I've ever met from Atchison have been straight garbage.  Like, try to steal your ipod touch and everyone's phones in the house garbage.

Trash tends to hang with trash  :dunno:

 :curse:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on April 17, 2014, 02:34:39 PM
The blood rain tho
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on April 17, 2014, 02:43:34 PM
I mean Atchison is a crap hole, that goes without saying. But we are debating the shittiest of holes, and I don't think Atchison is that shitty. I mean doesn't Russell or somewhere literally smell like crap 24/7?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 17, 2014, 03:25:43 PM
I mean Atchison is a crap hole, that goes without saying. But we are debating the shittiest of holes, and I don't think Atchison is that shitty. I mean doesn't Russell or somewhere literally smell like crap 24/7?

Dodge/Garden
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hemmy on April 17, 2014, 03:27:13 PM
Are we including towns with <= 100 people? If so, Munden, KS without a doubt.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HerrSonntag on April 17, 2014, 04:31:59 PM
I feel like that would be redundant.  Are there any good towns with less than 100 people?  I mean, theres a reason no one lives there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 17, 2014, 04:37:04 PM
I have a lot of friends from Atchison. They're amazing ppl. Also, Amelia Earhart days are a lot of fun.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2014, 04:41:41 PM
I have a lot of friends from Atchison. They're amazing ppl. Also, Amelia Earhart days are a lot of fun.

As long as you keep your phone in your pocket and all of your electronics secured, I'm sure they're a treat to be around.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 17, 2014, 04:43:59 PM
I have a lot of friends from Atchison. They're amazing ppl. Also, Amelia Earhart days are a lot of fun.

As long as you keep your phone in your pocket and all of your electronics secured, I'm sure they're a treat to be around.
:lol: These friends aren't trashy. I'm pretty sure one of them is a pretty big deal there. He runs a major company there with his dad and i'm pretty sure it's good for the community.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on April 17, 2014, 04:45:03 PM
Wow, sounds like he's a pretty big deal. :Wha:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on April 17, 2014, 04:51:06 PM
Wow, sounds like he's a pretty big deal. :Wha:
I know, man. Scary story alert. He had a private plane that he flew for the company from time to time. Two years ago I flew down to ft worth with him for the TCU game. A month later that same plane crashed and killed 4 ppl in it. It had some kind of malfunction.  :ohno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j-dub on May 26, 2014, 07:39:26 PM
Wow, just read this thread for the first time. Personally think Galena takes the cake with Baxter Springs, Parsons, and the other extreme SE shitholes also receiving consideration. But how the eff does Iola not get at least a mention? I mean seriously eff that town. Possibly the shittiest McDonalds and Sonic on earth right across the street from each other. And ACCC?   :Yuck: Also Osawatomie only mentioned once? Come on. LaCygne and Garnett are resort towns next to those two.

bout damn time someone backed me on the osawatomie shithole claim. it's just the effing worst.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on May 26, 2014, 07:44:07 PM
Wow, sounds like he's a pretty big deal. :Wha:
I know, man. Scary story alert. He had a private plane that he flew for the company from time to time. Two years ago I flew down to ft worth with him for the TCU game. A month later that same plane crashed and killed 4 ppl in it. It had some kind of malfunction.  :ohno:

 Bramalage Family?

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hatingfrancisco on May 27, 2014, 09:41:26 AM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SPEmaw on May 27, 2014, 09:59:36 AM
I mean Atchison is a crap hole, that goes without saying. But we are debating the shittiest of holes, and I don't think Atchison is that shitty. I mean doesn't Russell or somewhere literally smell like crap 24/7?

Dodge/Garden

Depends on the direction of the wind in Dodge. Sometimes the wind blows in a direction to get some smells from the cinnamon roll factory. All other directions you get smells from feed lots (crap) or the meat packing plants (worse than crap).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on May 27, 2014, 10:23:31 AM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.
Sounds like Haviland.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on May 27, 2014, 11:55:57 AM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.
Sounds like Haviland.

I'll raise you a Cullison.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on May 27, 2014, 11:57:43 AM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.
Sounds like Haviland.

I'll raise you a Cullison.

Really impressive grain elevator tho.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on May 27, 2014, 12:04:59 PM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.
Sounds like Haviland.

I'll raise you a Cullison.
Trusdale (sp), tho?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kslim on May 27, 2014, 12:50:00 PM
OAKLAND!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on July 02, 2014, 08:25:18 AM

Quote
HAYSVILLE — A Kansas teenager is recovering at home after spending three days in intensive care recovering from a scorpion sting.

Fifteen-year-old Parker Hartley of Haysville Hartley was bitten Friday after he played Frisbee Golf at a park in Haysville, while he was barefoot. He put on his shoes after the game and felt a sharp sting and instant pain.

KAKE-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1mjRskI ) Hartley’s parents at first thought he had been stung by a bee or wasp. But within 24 hours, his foot had swollen and Hartley said the pain was unbearable. A nurse at Wesley’s emergency room recognized the sting and he was hospitalized.

Experts say scorpions hide in dark places, so check your shoes if they’ve been outside, or in sheds.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on July 02, 2014, 08:36:12 AM
I would imagine a scorpion is looking for the darkest of the dark places if they crawl inside a shoe that is also inside a shed. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: the_ugly_clown on July 02, 2014, 09:44:17 AM
Bucklin Kansas. 

 :sdeek:

Half the town are poors/hoarders and the other half are super pretentious KU fans.

And the other half are both.

Never been there, but was always jealous of their sweet "Aces" high school bus.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on August 30, 2014, 03:28:10 PM
Coffeyville JUCO vs. Iowa Western is on Cox 22 right now.  It's 28-28 in the 3rd and Tay Bender is QB'n for the iowans.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 88wildcat on August 31, 2014, 09:21:58 AM
No way you can put Hutchinson on this list.  Any town that has the Cosmosphere is automatically disqualified from being the 2nd worst anything.  There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.  There is a Perry Maxwell designed golf course in Coffeyville.  And with all the SE Kansas towns being listed how has Humboldt been left out?  Iola is down right cosmopolitan compared to Humboldt.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 88wildcat on August 31, 2014, 09:27:41 AM
Wow, I had never stepped foot in this thread. Just read the whole thing.  :sdeek:
Very very depressing thread. I am not from KS and have zero family members in KS and I feel like there should be like some sort of password required to read this thread that only people from KS or people who have family members in KS can get into it and read it.


Also, yes, jmlynch, La Cygne is the one near the pond.

Which state are you from?

Oh the same rules should apply to a Missouri thread of similar nature. I don't really have any small-town relatives either though, so that could be part of the  :sdeek:

I bet a worst town in Missouri thread would be much more depressing than the Kansas thread. The worst towns in Kansas can attribute most of their problems from spillover from SW Missouri and NE Oklahoma, after all. It's just too bad we don't have more mocats to really get one going.

Knob Lock-any town whose name is easily confused with Knob Lick can't have much going for it.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on August 31, 2014, 12:01:07 PM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on August 31, 2014, 01:31:23 PM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on August 31, 2014, 01:32:44 PM
that being said im sure ppl that got out are fine
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: raquetcat on August 31, 2014, 03:13:22 PM
No way you can put Hutchinson on this list.  Any town that has the Cosmosphere is automatically disqualified from being the 2nd worst anything.  There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.  There is a Perry Maxwell designed golf course in Coffeyville.  And with all the SE Kansas towns being listed how has Humboldt been left out?  Iola is down right cosmopolitan compared to Humboldt.
Do you even biblesta bro?

www.biblesta.com
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on September 01, 2014, 06:01:39 AM
So many shitty towns, so little time.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 88wildcat on September 01, 2014, 06:15:21 PM
SE KS, SW MO, and NE OK are the most depressing areas ever. no question, no doubt.  I once visited a friend at Pitt State, did not do again.

Pine Ridge, South Dakota (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation)

Everything looks, sounds, smells, (and I would imagine though I did not gather data on these two senses) tastes, and feels like poverty and alcoholism. 


Back to Kansas, there have been a lot of references to old and declining mining towns and old and declining oil and gas towns.  However the old and declining railroad towns (like Herington) are getting neglected here.   

As far as interstate signs go my vote goes to the ones on I-70 wanting you to be sure to stop and visit Liberal while you are on your way to either northern Colorado or central Missouri.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2014, 08:10:44 AM
that being said im sure ppl that got out are fine

 :Woohoo:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2014, 09:34:44 AM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole

When did you live there?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 02, 2014, 09:46:53 AM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole

When did you live there?

i'm obv's not TBT, but I spent a glorious 2 years there from 04-06.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2014, 10:41:25 AM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole

When did you live there?

i'm obv's not TBT, but I spent a glorious 2 years there from 04-06.

Before the flood, so the shitty 1/3 of town was still there but 1/3 of the population hadn't left yet.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on September 02, 2014, 11:10:27 AM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole

When did you live there?

i'm obv's not TBT, but I spent a glorious 2 years there from 04-06.

Before the flood, so the shitty 1/3 of town was still there but 1/3 of the population hadn't left yet.

I was there 06-08. Lived there before and after flood.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 02, 2014, 11:44:46 AM

There is also a problem with putting Coffeyville on the list.

Obvious Mrs Gooch sock.

having lived in coffeyville for 2 years, it is the worst town in KS and its not even close, place is a complete shithole

When did you live there?

i'm obv's not TBT, but I spent a glorious 2 years there from 04-06.

Before the flood, so the shitty 1/3 of town was still there but 1/3 of the population hadn't left yet.

well the Jones gang was raised somewhat close and many remain in the area. so I experienced it many times long before, and now long after the flood when back to visit the fam.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hemmy on September 02, 2014, 03:43:22 PM
Anyone been to the Antique shop in Cuba, KS? I have only seen the roadside sign, but I imagine its fantastic.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on September 03, 2014, 01:39:37 AM
Straight talk (honest) about SEK: Coffeyville makes Parsons look charming and quaint. It's like a Parsons dip cone, but the shell is oil runoff and the inside is hot garbage and abandoned wal-marts.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SdK on September 03, 2014, 06:09:32 AM
SE KS, SW MO, and NE OK are the most depressing areas ever. no question, no doubt.  I once visited a friend at Pitt State, did not do again.

Pine Ridge, South Dakota (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation)

Everything looks, sounds, smells, (and I would imagine though I did not gather data on these two senses) tastes, and feels like poverty and alcoholism. 


Back to Kansas, there have been a lot of references to old and declining mining towns and old and declining oil and gas towns.  However the old and declining railroad towns (like Herington) are getting neglected here.   

As far as interstate signs go my vote goes to the ones on I-70 wanting you to be sure to stop and visit Liberal while you are on your way to either northern Colorado or central Missouri.
You should listen to the song by Kid Dakota entitled Pine Ridge.

http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/kid_dakota/pine_ridge-lyrics-1227759.html (http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/kid_dakota/pine_ridge-lyrics-1227759.html)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 03, 2014, 08:03:51 AM
Straight talk (honest) about SEK: Coffeyville makes Parsons look charming and quaint. It's like a Parsons dip cone, but the shell is oil runoff and the inside is hot garbage and abandoned wal-marts.

But that new stadium though.  :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on September 03, 2014, 10:41:21 AM
Peru, Kansas.  Image below is representative of the rest of the town.  Makes Coffeyville look cosmopolitan.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6932498079_a633c346f9_z.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on September 03, 2014, 10:43:01 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on September 03, 2014, 10:49:06 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 03, 2014, 11:10:12 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 03, 2014, 11:32:35 AM
Peru, Kansas.  Image below is representative of the rest of the town.  Makes Coffeyville look cosmopolitan.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6932498079_a633c346f9_z.jpg)

Isn't that where Obama's grandmother or aunt lived or something?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 03, 2014, 11:38:07 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 11:41:02 AM

Isn't that where Obama's grandmother or aunt lived or something?

According to wikipedia his grandmother was born there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 03, 2014, 11:43:02 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.

They aren't real towns, though. You can drive right through them and not even realize it.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 03, 2014, 11:45:04 AM
I love old towns and their history.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 03, 2014, 11:47:46 AM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.

They aren't real towns, though. You can drive right through them and not even realize it.

What qualifies as a "town" in this debate? They are all incorporated, I believe. Not sure if anyone still lives there or they are just populated with ghosts at this point.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on September 03, 2014, 12:14:06 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.

They aren't real towns, though. You can drive right through them and not even realize it.

What qualifies as a "town" in this debate? They are all incorporated, I believe. Not sure if anyone still lives there or they are just populated with ghosts at this point.

TAlking about this area without mentioning Sedan is blasphemy. By far the best town in the region. Yes, I know this is a thread for crappy towns. Also, you can't bring up Chautauqua and leave out Elgin, a town "Too Tough to Die."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on September 03, 2014, 12:25:24 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

https://twitter.com/TrimGoEMAW/status/506618746631639041

I'll put you down for RT.  You're wrong though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Panjandrum on September 03, 2014, 12:52:15 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on September 03, 2014, 12:57:02 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

Ravi is playing the long game.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on September 03, 2014, 01:14:53 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

Fun fact: I am from Havana, KS. My grandparents and uncle still own a farm/land in the area. Btw, Coffeyville is the 2nd worse place in Kansas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 03, 2014, 01:22:43 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

I was going to mention Chetopa, but I thought it was in Oklahoma.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 03, 2014, 01:23:11 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.

They aren't real towns, though. You can drive right through them and not even realize it.

What qualifies as a "town" in this debate? They are all incorporated, I believe. Not sure if anyone still lives there or they are just populated with ghosts at this point.

TAlking about this area without mentioning Sedan is blasphemy. By far the best town in the region. Yes, I know this is a thread for crappy towns. Also, you can't bring up Chautauqua and leave out Elgin, a town "Too Tough to Die."

Sedan is the only real town in that area.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 03, 2014, 01:25:55 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

you haven't lived until you've meandered the area of chautauqua, peru, niotaze, havana.

All worse than Coffeyville.

They aren't real towns, though. You can drive right through them and not even realize it.

What qualifies as a "town" in this debate? They are all incorporated, I believe. Not sure if anyone still lives there or they are just populated with ghosts at this point.

I don't know. A school, a post office, living breathing people that actually claim to live there, maybe? Some of these towns are just places where people live rural lives that happen to fall within the borders of a town that used to be.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on September 03, 2014, 01:27:19 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

Somebody Taco that website.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on September 03, 2014, 01:37:41 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

I possess a wealth of knowledge on all the places in SEK. Chetopa does suck, but it isn't the worst.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 03, 2014, 01:38:36 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

I possess a wealth of knowledge on all the places in SEK. Chetopa does suck, but it isn't the worst.

It's Galena, right?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on September 03, 2014, 01:41:25 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

I possess a wealth of knowledge on all the places in SEK. Chetopa does suck, but it isn't the worst.

It's Galena, right?

No it's definitely Coffeyville. It's been the worst since I was a child. Was also there just a month ago so my opinion is up to date.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 03, 2014, 01:43:10 PM
and how was the demo derby, @UCHADBRO?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on September 03, 2014, 01:44:19 PM
Peru, Kansas. 

Made up.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru%2C_Kansas

Had to do a couple of witness interviews there.  Was glad to get out of town when they were over.

https://twitter.com/TrimGoEMAW/status/506618746631639041

I'll put you down for RT.  You're wrong though.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Peru,+KS/@37.0825761,-96.095097,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87b75e43920f8eab:0x3f812bb3a9a1e355

Looks like it had some fair quail hunting east of town back in the day.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on September 03, 2014, 01:47:29 PM
and how was the demo derby, @UCHADBRO?

No 4 state fair and rodeo for me. Parents live 20 miles away. Was there playing a round of golf with a buddy.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 02:04:00 PM
This is about all that's left of the town my dad grew up in, Carneiro, KS.

(http://donm.smugmug.com/Travel/Smoky-Hill-Ellsworth-County/i-33X6TSR/1/M/IMG_3583-M.jpg)

(http://www.legendsofkansas.com/towns/CarneiroHouse-600.jpg)

We used to go there for family reunions and check out these rocks.
(http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8059/8216018408_98f3de932a_m.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on September 03, 2014, 02:18:35 PM
o what a rock!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 02:19:54 PM
o what a rock!

Mushroom Rock State Park is one of the 7 Wonders of Kansas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 03, 2014, 02:20:03 PM
Can you walk underneath that thing?


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 03, 2014, 02:20:49 PM
Chetopa: Don't care; had pecans

Had to go back and see if Chetopa was mentioned.

What a horrible place.

For God's sakes, the town website is blank and "may be for sale by owner".

http://www.chetopacity.org/ (http://www.chetopacity.org/)

I possess a wealth of knowledge on all the places in SEK. Chetopa does suck, but it isn't the worst.

It's Galena, right?

yes, it's galena.

Quote from: real life quote
Sinkholes from abandoned mines have plagued Galena for years. Three small, but deep, ones developed earlier this month near city hall, at a mobile home court and on a street.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bubbles4ksu on September 03, 2014, 02:28:36 PM
This is about all that's left of the town my dad grew up in, Carneiro, KS.
i drove by that town one summer day and there was what looked like an impromptu, all mexican rodeo. it was in the early afternoon and there weren't any signs or decoration but hundreds of these rancheros were sitting on the corral fence watching dudes wrestle steers. looked extremely unsafe and awesome.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 02:28:45 PM
Can you walk underneath that thing?


Gonna win 'em all!

If you wanted. I think the base is about 9-10 ft tall.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 02:30:15 PM
Can you walk underneath that thing?


Gonna win 'em all!

If you wanted. I think the base is about 9-10 ft tall.
Or much taller... .depending on if this guy is taller than 4 feet.

(http://www.kansastravel.org/10mushroomrock4.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 03, 2014, 02:34:16 PM
HE IS GONNA GET SQUISHED!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 02:55:57 PM
It's Ogden, guys.

Ogden is amazing. All your dreams can come true. Pawnshops, guns, whores, and used to be clutch for alcohol on a Sunday.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 02:59:18 PM
Ogden might be the greatest shitty town ever actually
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on September 03, 2014, 03:02:52 PM
HE IS GONNA GET SQUISHED!

(http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p684/The_Big_Train/10mushroomrock4_zps8a3603b4.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 03:03:48 PM
shopped.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 03, 2014, 03:06:14 PM
HE IS GONNA GET SQUISHED!

(http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p684/The_Big_Train/10mushroomrock4_zps8a3603b4.jpg)
I called it!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 03:09:22 PM
That's a great rock, btw.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 03:10:31 PM
My dad grew up in New Cambria (sp?), KS, and its not really there any more, either. :frown:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bubbles4ksu on September 03, 2014, 03:12:59 PM

My dad grew up in New Cambria (sp?), KS, and its not really there any more, either. :frown:
That place flooded like it was Iowa.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 03, 2014, 03:13:00 PM
those rocks are amazing. Can you image coming upon those for the first time? wow!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 03:14:53 PM

My dad grew up in New Cambria (sp?), KS, and its not really there any more, either. :frown:
That place flooded like it was Iowa.

I know :frown:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 03, 2014, 03:16:25 PM
Anybody ever been to Kelly or Corning? What about Goff and Wetmore? For extremely small towns, Goff would probably have this thing in the bag.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 03:24:52 PM
There's this town called Globe, KS, out sorta close to Baldwin I used to drive through sometimes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on September 03, 2014, 03:28:46 PM
towns under 500 should be exempt IMO
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on September 03, 2014, 03:28:47 PM
i bet some of these should go here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Kansas
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on September 03, 2014, 03:35:32 PM
Anybody ever been to Kelly or Corning? What about Goff and Wetmore? For extremely small towns, Goff would probably have this thing in the bag.
Goff had a great small town fireworks show
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 03, 2014, 03:48:38 PM
Anybody ever been to Kelly or Corning? What about Goff and Wetmore? For extremely small towns, Goff would probably have this thing in the bag.
Goff had a great small town fireworks show
How in the hell did you know that?!!? We used to go every year when I was a kid! :love:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on September 03, 2014, 03:51:24 PM
Anybody ever been to Kelly or Corning? What about Goff and Wetmore? For extremely small towns, Goff would probably have this thing in the bag.
Goff had a great small town fireworks show
How in the hell did you know that?!!? We used to go every year when I was a kid! :love:
Cousins from outside of Soldier. Went to the fireworks show once sometime in the mid 90s
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 03, 2014, 03:53:39 PM
Parker, KS is pretty shitty and it also has the unfortunate distinction of being Brownback's hometown.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 03, 2014, 04:25:42 PM
Straight talk (honest) about SEK: Coffeyville makes Parsons look charming and quaint. It's like a Parsons dip cone, but the shell is oil runoff and the inside is hot garbage and abandoned wal-marts.

I learned to drive in an abandoned Wal-Mart parking lot.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hemmy on September 03, 2014, 04:28:35 PM
New Cambria still exists, you noobs.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on September 03, 2014, 05:05:01 PM
this should be broken into quadrants, there are so many crappy towns.
i'm totally impartial having not grown up in KS so i have no rival town or these people suck or my town is the worst because...

SE-Galena, it is a superfund site and the whole town was bought out; case closed.
NE-Elwood, devastated by the '93 flood and is little bro to St. Joe, MO. 
SW-Protection/Kingman; both are just horrible
NW-Norton/St. Francis; tough call both are the worst of what is probably the "nicest" part of the state

If you go bigger than XXXX residents, that might change the list, but for realz guyz, to quote choice hotels, "I've been everywhere, man" -in KS.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 03, 2014, 05:26:05 PM
New Cambria still exists, you noobs.

I know it still exists, we drove through it a few year ago. Just not much left.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on September 03, 2014, 05:36:48 PM
new cambria is about six minutes from my driveway and i've never been there
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on September 03, 2014, 05:37:41 PM
I drove through it/by it last week and didn't realize it had a name.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on September 03, 2014, 08:28:21 PM
this should be broken into quadrants, there are so many crappy towns.
i'm totally impartial having not grown up in KS so i have no rival town or these people suck or my town is the worst because...

SE-Galena, it is a superfund site and the whole town was bought out; case closed.
NE-Elwood, devastated by the '93 flood and is little bro to St. Joe, MO. 
SW-Protection/Kingman; both are just horrible
NW-Norton/St. Francis; tough call both are the worst of what is probably the "nicest" part of the state

If you go bigger than XXXX residents, that might change the list, but for realz guyz, to quote choice hotels, "I've been everywhere, man" -in KS.

One of the nicest people I know is from there
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on September 03, 2014, 08:52:28 PM
how is the NW the nicest part of the state?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on September 03, 2014, 08:56:07 PM
The worst town in Kansas is Washington.  After that, Stockton. Then anyone of a dozen coal towns in Southeast kansas (Galena has been mentioned often, I'd add iola).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on September 03, 2014, 09:26:28 PM

This is about all that's left of the town my dad grew up in, Carneiro, KS.

(http://donm.smugmug.com/Travel/Smoky-Hill-Ellsworth-County/i-33X6TSR/1/M/IMG_3583-M.jpg)

(http://www.legendsofkansas.com/towns/CarneiroHouse-600.jpg)

We used to go there for family reunions and check out these rocks.
(http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8059/8216018408_98f3de932a_m.jpg)

I may have ran marathons near and/or around that rock.  A state treasure.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on September 03, 2014, 10:29:01 PM
how is the NW the nicest part of the state?

As a collection of small crappy towns,  the nw is the least awful.  No abandoned coal mines and chat piles (se), no sw abandoned ghost towns and sad impliment dealers masquerading as towns, lacks the humidity and tacky bedroom communities of the ne. 

Again this is just in relation small crappy towns, straight unbiased talk.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Pete on September 03, 2014, 10:41:42 PM
Slucat is a rough ridin' gem of this board.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on September 03, 2014, 10:56:38 PM
this should be broken into quadrants, there are so many crappy towns.
i'm totally impartial having not grown up in KS so i have no rival town or these people suck or my town is the worst because...

SE-Galena, it is a superfund site and the whole town was bought out; case closed.
NE-Elwood, devastated by the '93 flood and is little bro to St. Joe, MO. 
SW-Protection/Kingman; both are just horrible
NW-Norton/St. Francis; tough call both are the worst of what is probably the "nicest" part of the state

If you go bigger than XXXX residents, that might change the list, but for realz guyz, to quote choice hotels, "I've been everywhere, man" -in KS.

There's a few other towns in that area of the state worse than Kingman, slu.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Benja on September 04, 2014, 12:57:09 AM
Frankly, I'm shocked that this many people know of New Cambria.

True story told to me by an 86 year old man who taught my dad when he was in junior high: New Cambria was extremely psyched when the railroad came to town in the 1940's. Apparently that was like the raddest thing that could ever happen to a town back then. In the 1950's, during a particularly rough winter, a passenger train heading cross country full of hundreds of people slid off the rails right outside New Cambia, and the town had to take them in (which they did gladly because everyone was neighborly as eff back then) and shelter and feed them for weeks while somebody came and fixed the railroad. TRUE NEW CAMBRIA STORY
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SdK on September 04, 2014, 06:13:37 AM
I think all the towns under Tuttle might be pretty shitty. Someone should dive down and ask the fishies!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on September 04, 2014, 02:58:41 PM
I tried to settle this debate about town size a while back. You may want to add your new nominees in the appropriate division. I'm adding in Independence now, since we've used perfect logic to determine it is 2nd only to Coffeyville. (http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=25275.msg1094182;topicseen#msg1094182 (http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=25275.msg1094182;topicseen#msg1094182))

I looked back at the discussion and here is how I'd divide the races. SEK stands alone, clearly, and the rest are separated by population. I felt it was important to separate suburbs from stand-alone towns, and I added Haysville because I felt south Wichita suburbs were underrepresented. The order within each division is my personal rankings; where my experience was limited I went with the most persuasive board opinion.

SEK Division
Independence 9,483
Galena 3,085
Girard 2,789
Baxter Springs 4,238
Chetopa 1,125
Parsons 10,500

"Big" City Division
Topeka 233,870
KCK 145,786

Less Big Division
Leavenworth 35,251
Junction City 23,353
Liberal 20,525
Emporia 24,916
Garden City 26,658
Dodge City 27,340
Hutchinson 42,080

Suburb Division
Lansing 11,265
Haysville 10,826

Mid Size Division
El Dorado 13,021
Ark City 12,415

Small Town Division
Horton (pop 1,776)
Larned (pop 4,054)
St Mary's (pop 2,627)
Osawatomie (pop 4,447)
Oakley (pop 2,045)
Wellsville (pop 1,857)

Village Division
Westmoreland (pop 778)
Nickerson (pop 1,070)
Burlingame (pop 934)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on September 04, 2014, 03:00:30 PM
no "ghost towns" in NWKS? The eff?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on September 04, 2014, 04:53:26 PM
I nominate known shithole Parsons
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on September 04, 2014, 06:25:49 PM
SEK Vote in descending Order of shitty-ness (shitty Coffeyville excluded)

1.)Galena
2.)Parsons
3.)Chetopa

Wildcard: Sedan


Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on September 16, 2014, 11:46:43 AM
I think we can officially remove Gas, KS from this contest.  It made this list above Manhattan.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/58336/15-delightfully-quirky-town-slogans
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on September 17, 2014, 07:13:02 AM
SEK needs a thread of it's own.

Super small SEK non-coalmine towns in no particular order:

Liberty......Guy sitting in driveway on a bucket, staring into a fire, gun at his side. :goodbyecruelworld: 

Buffalo.......HOLY crap!!

McCune........  :flush:

Bronson..........ditto




Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 01, 2014, 02:18:03 PM
Looks like Coffeyville just moved up on the worst towns list. http://www.newson6.com/story/26671586/amazon-closing-kansas-shipping-center

Oh, wait...
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Catchacold on October 01, 2014, 03:14:56 PM
i bet some of these should go here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Kansas

Quote
In 1908, Ulysses moved three miles down the road to a new location in an attempt to not pay back bonds that had become due.

 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 01, 2014, 03:17:18 PM
Looks like Coffeyville just moved up on the worst towns list. http://www.newson6.com/story/26671586/amazon-closing-kansas-shipping-center

Oh, wait...

Does this mean we don't have to pay sales tax on Amazon purchases after that place closes down?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 01, 2014, 03:20:20 PM
Looks like Coffeyville just moved up on the worst towns list. http://www.newson6.com/story/26671586/amazon-closing-kansas-shipping-center

Oh, wait...

Does this mean we don't have to pay sales tax on Amazon purchases after that place closes down?

Yes, in fact a bunch of the commentors on Facebook were making that point.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 01, 2014, 03:25:43 PM
Looks like Coffeyville just moved up on the worst towns list. http://www.newson6.com/story/26671586/amazon-closing-kansas-shipping-center

Oh, wait...

Does this mean we don't have to pay sales tax on Amazon purchases after that place closes down?

Yes, in fact a bunch of the commentors on Facebook were making that point.

Well, this is pretty much the best thing that could have happened, then. More than 100 employees get a job and moving expenses to leave Coffeyville, AND no more sales tax on Amazon. Everyone wins.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on October 01, 2014, 03:36:23 PM
Looks like Coffeyville just moved up on the worst towns list. http://www.newson6.com/story/26671586/amazon-closing-kansas-shipping-center

Oh, wait...

one christmas break i worked there for like 2 days.  my job was to take the boxes that came down this huge belt thing and stack them on palettes and then wrap them with these giant clingwrap rolls.  it was fun for about 2 days then i decided it wasnt very much fun anymore.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slucat on October 15, 2014, 02:20:37 PM
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults)

Official word out of the Democrats: SE KS sucks, specifically Cherryvale, Galena and Columbus.
Hopefully this is something we can all, R and D alike, agree upon.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 15, 2014, 02:23:00 PM
That guy needs to start posting in this thread and lay out his arguments.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on October 15, 2014, 03:02:21 PM
Comment was made on the Phog thread "Most craphole small towns in Kansas". http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2488&t=13234089 (http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2488&t=13234089). Pretty neat idea for a thread, imho.

"I understand why Coffeyville is such a popular choice but no town with a golf course designed by Perry Maxwell is eligible for the #1 spot."  :blah:

Guess we'd better rethink our whole hypothesis, guys
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on October 15, 2014, 03:35:35 PM
That golf course is a confirmed shithole too.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 15, 2014, 03:50:23 PM
That golf course is a confirmed shithole too.

And they tore down the most awesome rocket ship playground equipment to put up a stupid golf course.
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0b/39/16/0b3916d19eb01c5af971266543deb5de.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Reboulet on October 15, 2014, 04:48:48 PM
That golf course is a confirmed shithole too.

And they tore down the most awesome rocket ship playground equipment to put up a stupid golf course.
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0b/39/16/0b3916d19eb01c5af971266543deb5de.jpg)

That sucks. But they probably would have welded the access to the rockets shut anyway (and removed the slide), like they did to the one in Riverside Park in Wichita:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4291102313_72dab27614.jpg)

I'm sure the kids love looking at the big rocket ship they can't play in.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 15, 2014, 04:56:30 PM
I bet Coffeyville was a whole lot nicer 50 years ago than it is today.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on October 15, 2014, 09:22:31 PM
I bet Coffeyville was a whole lot nicer 50 years ago than it is today.

doubtful
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: EMAWzified on October 16, 2014, 12:53:55 AM
Anybody ever been to Kelly or Corning? What about Goff and Wetmore? For extremely small towns, Goff would probably have this thing in the bag.
I was reading through this thread and wondering if anyone would like mention Goff. Total shithole Appalachia. Makes Havensville look upscale.
But lets be honest here. Olathe wins. It's a heavily populated place to drive thru full of Targets, Wal-Marts, Lowes, Home Depots, Dicks and a big-ass outdoors store. With the exception of the new Mexican store on Santa Fe, there's nothing of interest in the most vanilla city in vanilla Johnson County. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on October 16, 2014, 01:27:47 AM
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults)

Official word out of the Democrats: SE KS sucks, specifically Cherryvale, Galena and Columbus.
Hopefully this is something we can all, R and D alike, agree upon.

I'm from Cherryvale and can confirm it's not that great. However, it is like 5 miles from a clean lake and doesn't smell like  :flush:. There are worse places
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on October 16, 2014, 05:51:02 AM

http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults)

Official word out of the Democrats: SE KS sucks, specifically Cherryvale, Galena and Columbus.
Hopefully this is something we can all, R and D alike, agree upon.

I'm from Cherryvale and can confirm it's not that great. However, it is like 5 miles from a clean lake and doesn't smell like  :flush:. There are worse places
Flush doesn't smell. Flush is a great little town. Doesn't belong in this thread.


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on October 16, 2014, 10:35:44 AM
Fun fact: I am from Havana, KS.

I'm from Cherryvale and can confirm it's not that great.

tf is happening here?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on October 16, 2014, 11:22:43 AM
Fun fact: I am from Havana, KS.

I'm from Cherryvale and can confirm it's not that great.

tf is happening here?

These Bros ain't loyal
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: UCHADBRO on October 16, 2014, 01:03:46 PM
Fun fact: I am from Havana, KS.

I'm from Cherryvale and can confirm it's not that great.

tf is happening here?

Split parents can make this happen. Grew up in Havana, moved, went to High School in C-Vale. There ya go.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on October 16, 2014, 03:52:06 PM
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults)

Official word out of the Democrats: SE KS sucks, specifically Cherryvale, Galena and Columbus.
Hopefully this is something we can all, R and D alike, agree upon.

Welp

http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-10-16/democratic-party-fires-spokesman-se-kansas-tirade (http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-10-16/democratic-party-fires-spokesman-se-kansas-tirade)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 16, 2014, 04:35:29 PM
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults (http://cjonline.com/news/2014-10-15/kansas-democratic-party-suspends-communications-director-over-online-insults)

Official word out of the Democrats: SE KS sucks, specifically Cherryvale, Galena and Columbus.
Hopefully this is something we can all, R and D alike, agree upon.

Welp

http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-10-16/democratic-party-fires-spokesman-se-kansas-tirade (http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-10-16/democratic-party-fires-spokesman-se-kansas-tirade)

That's too bad, but he really should have been smarter than posting something like that on a message board using his real name.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on October 17, 2014, 12:16:40 PM

I bet Coffeyville was a whole lot nicer 50 years ago than it is today.

doubtful

Well, it wasn't covered in oil and it had a rocket slide. So, that's like 1,000 percent better already.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on October 17, 2014, 12:16:58 PM
I'm still pissed about the rocket slide.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SEK_EMAW on October 17, 2014, 12:45:25 PM
That golf course is a confirmed shithole too.

And they tore down the most awesome rocket ship playground equipment to put up a stupid golf course.
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0b/39/16/0b3916d19eb01c5af971266543deb5de.jpg)

Is that asphalt/concrete under 20 ft tall playground equipment?  Kids these days...pussification of America. #AstroCityUSA
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on October 17, 2014, 09:07:06 PM
That golf course is a confirmed shithole too.

And they tore down the most awesome rocket ship playground equipment to put up a stupid golf course.
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0b/39/16/0b3916d19eb01c5af971266543deb5de.jpg)

I used to play on that when I was a little kid.  :love: :love:   Astro City was the tits.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on October 19, 2014, 03:16:36 PM
They need to burn some frankincense at the Parsons catholic church because the place smells like a big ol fart. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on October 19, 2014, 05:41:06 PM
i bet some of these should go here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Kansas

Quote
Sheridan[4]   Logan County   1868   1870s   Townsite is on private property.

My uncle actually owns the land this town was on. Went out there with my dad one day, nothing is left except a couple spots you can see where dugouts were. Of course ben ji's dad brought a metal dector and hoped to find all kinds of cool stuff....but nope, just nails and random metal pieces.

It was basically a town for like 2 years where the railroad ended because they ran out of money.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on October 24, 2014, 01:45:21 PM
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/article_41815954-5315-11e4-8a7c-c3f9c46be190.html
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: IPA4Me on October 26, 2014, 07:37:48 AM
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/article_41815954-5315-11e4-8a7c-c3f9c46be190.html
The comments. Woof. I think they might just have a fight on Main Street.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on November 05, 2014, 09:16:30 AM
http://www.homesecurityshield.org/news/10-most-dangerous-cities-in-kansas/

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TownieCat on November 05, 2014, 09:19:10 AM
http://www.homesecurityshield.org/news/10-most-dangerous-cities-in-kansas/

 :horrorsurprise:

It's truly remarkable that anyone grows up in SEK and lives past the age of 25.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 05, 2014, 09:27:21 AM
http://www.homesecurityshield.org/news/10-most-dangerous-cities-in-kansas/

 :horrorsurprise:

It's truly remarkable that anyone grows up in SEK and lives past the age of 25.

common denominator = junior colleges.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 05, 2014, 09:44:21 AM
Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Asteriskhead on November 05, 2014, 11:55:28 AM
I've spent a significant amount of time in 8 of those 10 places.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on November 05, 2014, 12:09:06 PM
In the SEK, we don't accidentally reach adulthood. We earn it. Evolutionarily speaking, it's probably why we start procreating at such an early age. Thank god I grew up in that coffeyville/parsons/border triangle. It prepared me.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fedor on November 05, 2014, 12:50:50 PM
In the SEK, we don't accidentally reach adulthood. We earn it. Evolutionarily speaking, it's probably why we start procreating at such an early age. Thank god I grew up in that coffeyville/parsons/border triangle. It prepared me.
When Cairo was burning it down, FR was thinking "back home we call this Friday night".
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 05, 2014, 01:30:25 PM
Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.

Maybe you're not rape material?  :dunno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on November 05, 2014, 01:43:20 PM
Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.

Maybe you're not rape material?  :dunno:

You're the worst
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on November 05, 2014, 02:04:12 PM
Need more info.  Are you a sorostitute or no?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on November 05, 2014, 02:16:46 PM
Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.

Maybe you're not rape material?  :dunno:

You're the worst

(http://media.al.com/sports_impact/photo/11657035-large.gif)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 05, 2014, 02:17:46 PM
FTR I enjoyed making that post and no one can take that away from me.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: meow meow on November 05, 2014, 02:19:25 PM
this board gets a little more like phog.net everyday, sad.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 05, 2014, 03:00:49 PM
Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.

Maybe you're not rape material?  :dunno:

I think any response I might have here is going to be an insult to rape victims so I will just go with "no comment".
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 05, 2014, 04:10:27 PM
wichita would be #2  :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on November 05, 2014, 04:21:17 PM

Well I grew up in the most dangerous city in Kansas and then moved to the second most dangerous city in Kansas. I'm surprised I haven't been raped and murdered yet.

Maybe you're not rape material?  :dunno:
She just hasn't "asked for it" yet.


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on November 05, 2014, 04:38:01 PM
I have a great response, but I'm choosing to restrain because it's even worse than emos :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on November 05, 2014, 07:05:14 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on November 05, 2014, 07:07:39 PM
LOL at the picture of KCK being KCMO
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on November 05, 2014, 07:12:58 PM
Pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal go down (while I was watching my kids) at the Parsons arboretum.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 05, 2014, 09:14:18 PM

I have a great response, but I'm choosing to restrain because it's even worse than emos :sdeek:

PM me?


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 05, 2014, 11:16:10 PM
Pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal go down (while I was watching my kids) at the Parsons arboretum.

i just did a street view to find the exact street and my god coffeyville is worse than i rememeber.  anyways there was a liquor store across the street from campus and from the looks of street view its long since closed down.  i was having one of my teammates who was 21 buy me booze for a binge at this liquor store, this car pulls up beside us(i was waiting in the car) and he knocks on the window and has a bag of weed, and he asks if i need any.  now this is at night and all, but  :sdeek:

also from street view i see the lone bright spot of coffeyville, the neighborhood taco mayo is still doing well.  lots of great memories eating this fine establishments food after a long night of paking.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on November 05, 2014, 11:20:10 PM
marijuana?!?!  :runaway:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 05, 2014, 11:22:46 PM
 :runaway:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 06, 2014, 09:09:59 AM
Pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal go down (while I was watching my kids) at the Parsons arboretum.

i just did a street view to find the exact street and my god coffeyville is worse than i rememeber.  anyways there was a liquor store across the street from campus and from the looks of street view its long since closed down.  i was having one of my teammates who was 21 buy me booze for a binge at this liquor store, this car pulls up beside us(i was waiting in the car) and he knocks on the window and has a bag of weed, and he asks if i need any.  now this is at night and all, but  :sdeek:

also from street view i see the lone bright spot of coffeyville, the neighborhood taco mayo is still doing well.  lots of great memories eating this fine establishments food after a long night of paking.

Did you look at the east side of town? It is kind of eerie with no houses.

Also, I worked at Taco Mayo when I was in high school - it was in a different location then though.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 06, 2014, 09:29:41 AM
Pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal go down (while I was watching my kids) at the Parsons arboretum.

i just did a street view to find the exact street and my god coffeyville is worse than i rememeber.  anyways there was a liquor store across the street from campus and from the looks of street view its long since closed down.  i was having one of my teammates who was 21 buy me booze for a binge at this liquor store, this car pulls up beside us(i was waiting in the car) and he knocks on the window and has a bag of weed, and he asks if i need any.  now this is at night and all, but  :sdeek:

also from street view i see the lone bright spot of coffeyville, the neighborhood taco mayo is still doing well.  lots of great memories eating this fine establishments food after a long night of paking.

Did you look at the east side of town? It is kind of eerie with no houses.

Also, I worked at Taco Mayo when I was in high school - it was in a different location then though.

my second year there was right after the flood, so I got to see before and after and I think it looks better after, those we not very aestically pleasing neighborhoods.

taco mayo was great, I would pick it over 'co bell everytime and I love 'co bell
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 06, 2014, 09:47:08 AM
when I was there, taco tico, yes, taco tico, had something like 29 cent tacos on sundays.. that was pretty neat.

coffeyville authentic mexican fast food rankings:
1. taco mayo
2. taco tico
3. taco bell
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 06, 2014, 10:22:52 AM
when I was there, taco tico, yes, taco tico, had something like 29 cent tacos on sundays.. that was pretty neat.

coffeyville authentic mexican fast food rankings:
1. taco mayo
2. taco tico
3. taco bell

Was that before they had to shut down because the health department found maggots in the kitchen?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 06, 2014, 12:17:37 PM
Just another typical crime in the second worst city in Kansas.
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Wichita-woman-finds-stranger-in-house-eating-cookie-dough-281784461.html
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on November 06, 2014, 12:21:05 PM
I was born in Wichita so that clearly eliminates it from being the 2nd worst city. It's 4th or 5th, tops.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 06, 2014, 12:24:36 PM
I was born in Wichita so that clearly eliminates it from being the 2nd worst city. It's 4th or 5th, tops.

I meant 2nd most dangerous for violent crime.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on November 18, 2014, 10:05:22 AM
Mrs. Bf volunteered to work the thanksgiving schedule at Parsons.  Looks like we'll be counting the police cars as they barrel past our loft on turkey day.  I wonder if we'll beat the record.  I'm betting on some trash Chiefs fan murdering his brother over the outcome of some football game.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 18, 2014, 10:26:58 AM
Mrs. Bf volunteered to work the thanksgiving schedule at Parsons.  Looks like we'll be counting the police cars as they barrel past our loft on turkey day.  I wonder if we'll beat the record.  I'm betting on some trash Chiefs fan murdering his brother over the outcome of some football game.

I'm betting that nothing at all like that happens and she gets bored out of her mind.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on November 18, 2014, 10:33:29 AM
Mrs. Bf volunteered to work the thanksgiving schedule at Parsons.  Looks like we'll be counting the police cars as they barrel past our loft on turkey day.  I wonder if we'll beat the record.  I'm betting on some trash Chiefs fan murdering his brother over the outcome of some football game.

I'm betting that nothing at all like that happens and she gets bored out of her mind.

No, every weekend that I have been there at least once a night a group of cop cars speed by the apartment lights flashing and sirens blaring.  Longer weekend means more time for trash Chiefs fan to get angry about crap life they have and take it out on someone else.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on November 18, 2014, 10:37:29 AM
Or nothing could happen and we have a pleasant thanksgiving weekend in Parsons Kansas.   :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on November 18, 2014, 10:59:37 AM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

as a member of the 67502 I have never felt unsafe in Hutch.  Unless I went to the 67501....  chills.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 18, 2014, 11:05:55 AM
The Chiefs don't even have a football game on Thanksgiving. Any injuries that need treated are going to come from Wal Mart that night.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 24, 2014, 05:33:45 PM
can a town with such an elite shirt really be the worst in all of ks?

(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10465443_1538097596443982_6918736265175218638_o.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 24, 2014, 05:34:44 PM
have you ever been there?  :Yuck:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 24, 2014, 05:38:00 PM
have you ever been there?  :Yuck:

as previously stated.. was there for two years pre-flood, and questionably pre-maggots-in-taco-tico-food.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on November 24, 2014, 06:18:09 PM
I don't even know what part of the state cville is in (cept I know NOT ne)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheCatFanSpeaks on November 24, 2014, 07:08:37 PM

Anyone been to the Antique shop in Cuba, KS? I have only seen the roadside sign, but I imagine its fantastic.

I haven't been to the antique store in Cuba, but a variety of smoked meats and cheeses from http://cubacashstore.com/phone/index.html always seem to show up at catfanspeaksfamily events and they are fantastic.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: j rake on November 24, 2014, 07:28:29 PM
Not sure if already nominated, but in case not, I'll vote for Syracuse, Kansas.

This place is hell on rough ridin' earth.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on November 25, 2014, 02:51:31 AM
Not sure if already nominated, but in case not, I'll vote for Syracuse, Kansas.

This place is hell on rough ridin' earth.

It has multiple decent gas stations, which is all I require on a drive out west.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on November 25, 2014, 12:25:42 PM

can a town with such an elite shirt really be the worst in all of ks?

(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10465443_1538097596443982_6918736265175218638_o.jpg)

What color was it before they washed it in oil runoff? #RIPRocketslide #NeverForget
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on November 25, 2014, 12:29:19 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

I think you could say generally safe from 4th street north.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on November 25, 2014, 12:31:59 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

I think you could say generally safe from 4th street north.
It's Hutchinson for god's sake, you're basically safe everywhere.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on November 25, 2014, 12:36:50 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

I think you could say generally safe from 4th street north.
It's Hutchinson for god's sake, you're basically safe everywhere.

You're not from the streets like yardie and me. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on November 25, 2014, 12:59:59 PM
can a town with such an elite shirt really be the worst in all of ks?

(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/10465443_1538097596443982_6918736265175218638_o.jpg)

 :D      :love:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on November 25, 2014, 04:29:04 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

I think you could say generally safe from 4th street north.
It's Hutchinson for god's sake, you're basically safe everywhere.

You're not from the streets like yardie and me.

Yeah. . Bigger street is especially dangerous. And don't get me started on South Hutch or Carey Park.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on November 26, 2014, 01:17:17 PM
I know I get attacked from all sides when I bring up Lucas in this thread, but after this:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article4122398.html (http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article4122398.html)

I must officially withdraw my nomination.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on November 27, 2014, 02:08:13 PM
Pretty quiet in Parsons so far.  We'll see how it goes this afternoon.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on November 29, 2014, 07:39:31 AM

I know I get attacked from all sides when I bring up Lucas in this thread, but after this:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article4122398.html (http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article4122398.html)

I must officially withdraw my nomination.

I don't know. There's some strong arguments in there:

"The Lucas facility got its start in 2008 when the town’s approximately 400 residents banded together because there was a need for a public restroom. It took them four years to raise money and design the rewstroom."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: renocat on November 29, 2014, 04:37:52 PM
Can confirm Hutch is very segregated, but generally safe if you live north of 17th Street.

I think you could say generally safe from 4th street north.
It's Hutchinson for god's sake, you're basically safe everywhere.

You're not from the streets like yardie and me.

Yeah. . Bigger street is especially dangerous. And don't get me started on South Hutch or Carey Park.
Now you are talking the ghetto!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: cfbandyman on November 30, 2014, 11:25:23 AM
With amazon leaving coffeyville, it really has to make it the worst.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Lucas Scoopsalot on November 30, 2014, 03:52:45 PM
Not sure if already nominated, but in case not, I'll vote for Syracuse, Kansas.

This place is hell on rough ridin' earth.
roommate is from Syracuse.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 01, 2014, 11:59:10 AM
Syracuse is exactly what you would expect from a town that size. There are far worse towns in Kansas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 19, 2014, 10:03:47 PM
I'm in Parsons again.  The sports apparel store across the street (Jocks Nitch) has a loud speaker playing 80's hits all day and night.  Dozed off lastnight to Eddie Money 2 Tickets to Paradise. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 19, 2014, 10:10:52 PM
Sounds great. I love 80s music.

Except the part about being in Parsons.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 19, 2014, 10:21:25 PM
Would have been great if I had someone to drink with that was older than 6yrs old. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 19, 2014, 10:26:56 PM
no negative judgements tho
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 20, 2014, 02:54:01 PM
None whatsoever TBT.  On an unrelated note.  I found a book someone left here about Parsons history.  Apparently Parsons is home to the first documented serial killers in American history.  :surprised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Lucas Scoopsalot on December 21, 2014, 11:48:36 AM
so, does Parsons take the crown? I've heard the Meth really flows down there. Like, if you want Meth just go knock on your neighbors door.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: wetwillie on December 21, 2014, 11:51:42 AM
so, does Parsons take the crown? I've heard the Meth really flows down there. Like, if you want Meth just go knock on your neighbors door.

Sorry friend you are looking for Ottawa, Kansas. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on December 22, 2014, 09:20:50 AM
I'm heading to Baldwin City for Christmas and I am convinced that either Gardner, Edgerton, or both could be the 2nd worst town in Kansas. Thoughts?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 22, 2014, 09:27:16 AM
None whatsoever TBT.  On an unrelated note.  I found a book someone left here about Parsons history.  Apparently Parsons is home to the first documented serial killers in American history.  :surprised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders

Is Parsons claiming the Benders?  I always thought they were Cherryvale's claim to fame.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on December 22, 2014, 11:54:37 AM
I'm heading to Baldwin City for Christmas and I am convinced that either Gardner, Edgerton, or both could be the 2nd worst town in Kansas. Thoughts?

Proximity to JoCo retail services would appear to take them out of contention.  Parsons, Riverton, Baxter Springs et al only have remote access to the greater Joplin metro area.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on December 22, 2014, 11:55:38 AM
None whatsoever TBT.  On an unrelated note.  I found a book someone left here about Parsons history.  Apparently Parsons is home to the first documented serial killers in American history.  :surprised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders

Is Parsons claiming the Benders?  I always thought they were Cherryvale's claim to fame.

Bender's way station was just outside present day Cherryvale, KS.  Apparently, male travelers throbbing over Kate Bender were the victims.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 23, 2014, 10:59:09 PM
Something tells me Ima pak with @bloodfart one of these days.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on December 23, 2014, 11:29:53 PM
Growing up in JOCO my next door neighbors had a kid(TJ) my exact same age, we were BFF's up until middle school (They also had a another boy that was the same age as my little brother). After all the kids graduated high school they moved out to SE Kansas, closest town is Parsons.

I really want to find an excuse to go down an visit them just to see what parsons is really like.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 23, 2014, 11:43:25 PM
you could hit the top 3 candidates for 2nd worst town in one fell swoop on that trip.  also confirm what this thread already acknowledged about coffeyville being by far the worst
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on December 23, 2014, 11:53:01 PM

Growing up in JOCO my next door neighbors had a kid(TJ) my exact same age, we were BFF's up until middle school (They also had a another boy that was the same age as my little brother). After all the kids graduated high school they moved out to SE Kansas, closest town is Parsons.

I really want to find an excuse to go down an visit them just to see what parsons is really like.

The strip pits have some truly lunker bass, biggest in the state aside from private pond fish.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 28, 2014, 03:20:06 AM
Something tells me Ima pak with @bloodfart one of these days.

Interesting if accurate.   :eye:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on December 28, 2014, 03:32:21 AM
Also I've been too harsh on Parsons.  The town has a pretty interesting history with the now defunct MKT railroad.  There were some ambitious business men living around Parsons back then.  They just need something to bring jobs back to the area.  I drove around town looking for christmas lights the last time we were there and there are a ton of huge old houses around town.  There was definitely a lot of money flowing through that place once upon a time.  Sad to see all that beautiful architecture slowly decay and fade away.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 29, 2014, 08:59:04 AM
I'm heading to Baldwin City for Christmas and I am convinced that either Gardner, Edgerton, or both could be the 2nd worst town in Kansas. Thoughts?

Proximity to JoCo retail services would appear to take them out of contention.  Parsons, Riverton, Baxter Springs et al only have remote access to the greater Joplin metro area.

This would have been a big deal to me 10-15 years ago, but I buy just about everything I want online now, anyway.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Panjandrum on February 06, 2015, 11:44:52 AM

Growing up in JOCO my next door neighbors had a kid(TJ) my exact same age, we were BFF's up until middle school (They also had a another boy that was the same age as my little brother). After all the kids graduated high school they moved out to SE Kansas, closest town is Parsons.

I really want to find an excuse to go down an visit them just to see what parsons is really like.

The strip pits have some truly lunker bass, biggest in the state aside from private pond fish.

The strip pits are a fantastic place to camp for a few days.  Went there back in October and had a great time.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on February 11, 2015, 11:20:48 PM
http://youtu.be/3udjtzJwnMQ
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on February 11, 2015, 11:56:06 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6p6cbTb08

Too bad Vinita's in Oklahoma.

There's a whole lot of gold between a little before 5:00 and 6:00.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Headinjun on February 11, 2015, 11:56:43 PM
Nah Trim.  At least those kids are having fun at school.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on February 12, 2015, 12:00:16 AM
well that was very enjoyable trim
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on February 12, 2015, 12:03:48 AM
Yeah, the video wasn't really a vote either way for DC, I just needed a thread to put it in.  Judge it however you want.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on February 12, 2015, 12:09:36 AM
dodge city has a bowling team AND candy stripe pants? DC and GC are fascinating places.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: michigancat on February 12, 2015, 12:10:22 AM
and archery! :surprised:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 13, 2015, 03:58:13 PM
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11108676_679861722142538_6452132041318485590_n.jpg?oh=d7aa75ea73d69def85945bb32f76b166&oe=55CE97A9)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on May 13, 2015, 05:32:07 PM

(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11108676_679861722142538_6452132041318485590_n.jpg?oh=d7aa75ea73d69def85945bb32f76b166&oe=55CE97A9)
somebodylink them to this thread


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on May 14, 2015, 10:42:46 AM
Guys, and Mrs. Gooch, tell them to go to Noxie to get an accurate feel of those parts.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on May 18, 2015, 03:34:28 PM
Yesterday in Parsons a guy went to the Walgreens very intoxicated and started a fight.  He was so drunk that the police wouldn't even take him to jail. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on May 18, 2015, 05:03:46 PM

Yesterday in Parsons a guy went to the Walgreens very intoxicated and started a fight.  He was so drunk that the police wouldn't even take him to jail.
same guy from other thread, right?


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on May 18, 2015, 05:20:08 PM
Probably an Osage or a Cherokee
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on May 18, 2015, 05:21:29 PM
Yesterday in Parsons a guy went to the Walgreens very intoxicated and started a fight.  He was so drunk that the police wouldn't even take him to jail.

That thoundth pretty methed up.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Bloodfart on May 18, 2015, 05:28:38 PM
He rolled from Colorado to Parsons to take care of some legal business.  It was alcohol and he scored a .404 on the blood test.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on May 18, 2015, 05:31:34 PM
when my browser hits 404 it's done too
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on May 18, 2015, 09:17:21 PM

Probably an Osage or a Cherokee
:sdeek: :opcat:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trogdor on May 18, 2015, 10:44:53 PM
Touring the PSEC facility for Eaton Corp. in Pittsburg PA today, and saw an oil pump inside with a big ole COFFEYVILLE KS painted on the side of it. I threw up a little in my mouth seeing that Coffeyville is influencing cities outside of Coffeyville
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 19, 2015, 07:46:51 AM
Touring the PSEC facility for Eaton Corp. in Pittsburg PA today, and saw an oil pump inside with a big ole COFFEYVILLE KS painted on the side of it. I threw up a little in my mouth seeing that Coffeyville is influencing cities outside of Coffeyville

The gasoline produced in Coffeyville is probably in your vehicle.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on May 19, 2015, 08:26:50 AM
Gastown  :love:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: meow meow on May 19, 2015, 08:36:57 AM
Gasville
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on May 19, 2015, 10:41:03 AM
Touring the PSEC facility for Eaton Corp. in Pittsburg PA today, and saw an oil pump inside with a big ole COFFEYVILLE KS painted on the side of it. I threw up a little in my mouth seeing that Coffeyville is influencing cities outside of Coffeyville

:facepalm:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on May 29, 2015, 08:20:50 AM
There was an armed fugitive near Coffeyville last night but they caught him.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Prince McJunkins on May 31, 2015, 05:49:32 PM
Has Herrington been mentioned? That place is Tweekertown, USA.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on June 12, 2015, 11:26:46 AM
Welp.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/05/the-poorest-town-in-each-state/4/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 12, 2015, 11:28:04 AM
Welp.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/05/the-poorest-town-in-each-state/4/

Yeah, this thread is about finding the 2nd worst town.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on June 12, 2015, 11:29:15 AM
Welp.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/05/the-poorest-town-in-each-state/4/

Yeah, this thread is about finding the 2nd worst town.

 :flush: <--------- that's literally what coffeyville is
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on June 13, 2015, 10:37:48 AM
http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local_state_news/no-grinding-in-haven-as-schools-ban-dirty-dancing/article_ea4ee229-abaa-5067-88af-7e49bea82786.html
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on June 15, 2015, 12:53:17 PM
http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local_state_news/no-grinding-in-haven-as-schools-ban-dirty-dancing/article_ea4ee229-abaa-5067-88af-7e49bea82786.html

This was a rule at my high school, but the students just grinded front to front. . .which in my opinion is worse.

Also, the article says Buhler doesn't have rules against grinding, but when I went to dances there they had really strict rules against grinding. I'm starting to doubt the legitimacy of this article.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trogdor on June 15, 2015, 03:53:57 PM
http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local_state_news/no-grinding-in-haven-as-schools-ban-dirty-dancing/article_ea4ee229-abaa-5067-88af-7e49bea82786.html

This was a rule at my high school, but the students just grinded front to front. . .which in my opinion is worse.

Also, the article says Buhler doesn't have rules against grinding, but when I went to dances there they had really strict rules against grinding. I'm starting to doubt the legitimacy of this article.

You were just a ladies man going to all these dances werent you
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on June 15, 2015, 03:55:02 PM
He was quite the lady killer*

*I mean this figuratively.  To the best of my knowledge, he did not commit intentional homicides on young adult women. 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on June 16, 2015, 11:50:21 AM
He was quite the lady killer*

*I mean this figuratively.  To the best of my knowledge, he did not commit intentional homicides on young adult women.

 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on June 16, 2015, 12:14:06 PM
He was quite the lady killer*

*I mean this figuratively.  To the best of my knowledge, he did not commit intentional homicides on young adult women.

 :lol:
What about old adult women? They are ladies too, ya know?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on July 28, 2015, 01:30:27 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-kansas/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on July 28, 2015, 01:43:13 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-kansas/

Welp I went from the worst to the tenth worst....I guess I upgraded.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on July 28, 2015, 02:24:38 PM
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kansas/small-town-ks/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on July 28, 2015, 02:36:52 PM
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kansas/small-town-ks/

Take it to the best towns in KS thread.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HerrSonntag on July 28, 2015, 04:11:35 PM
Mulvane made that list?  Garbage list.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on July 28, 2015, 04:20:46 PM

http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kansas/small-town-ks/
that is extremely depressing


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on July 29, 2015, 09:44:13 AM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-kansas/

gE.com proven geniuses again.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on July 29, 2015, 09:45:24 AM
good one lukename.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on July 29, 2015, 09:47:18 AM
good one lukename.

 :billdance:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: B.A.Walsh on July 29, 2015, 11:37:28 PM
How has Emporia not been mentioned?  And where is the guy that says Lawerence?

Also I am very surprised this thread has not made its way to NCK.  Belleville? Clay Center? Minneapolis?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ydarg2012 on July 30, 2015, 06:27:48 AM
This might settle it:    http://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-kansas/


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on July 30, 2015, 06:44:51 AM

This might settle it:    http://www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-kansas/


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it obviously hasn't settled it doubledogluke2012


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on July 30, 2015, 08:25:07 AM
How many socks does yard dog have?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fedor on July 30, 2015, 10:14:45 AM
How has Emporia not been mentioned?  And where is the guy that says Lawerence?

Also I am very surprised this thread has not made its way to NCK.  Belleville? Clay Center? Minneapolis?
Those towns are all in western Kansas.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on July 30, 2015, 11:46:38 AM
If I understand correctly, the grossest part of Kansas is the southeast corner. So we should probably stop hating on the west for being so dry and flat and look to the southeast at all that meth and crime with our judgement.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on July 30, 2015, 12:36:33 PM
Se kansas IS western kansas yard dog
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SEK_EMAW on July 30, 2015, 12:50:10 PM
Mods can I get a name change to something like PoorViolentGross_EMAW?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Yard Dog on July 30, 2015, 12:52:59 PM
Mods can I get a name change to something like PoorViolentGross_EMAW?  :facepalm:

It's not your fault, it's just the stats.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on September 01, 2015, 06:24:54 PM
i drove through Coffeyville, KS today for (as far as i know) the first time. if that is not the #1 worst town in kansas i just don't know which way is up anymore
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on September 01, 2015, 06:26:18 PM
i mean you could film a post apocalyptic young adult drama film there without changing one tiny little thing at all.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on September 01, 2015, 06:33:16 PM
glad to see it hasnt changed
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2015, 07:36:30 AM
Which part did you drive through? Did you go by the east side of town with all the empty lots from the flood?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on September 02, 2015, 08:11:04 AM
@mocat, From OP...
Obviously coffeyville is the grossest and most depressing [...]

So we're looking for second place nominations here. Or maybe first place for the "coffeyville trophy" and we'll just assume coffeyville itself is hanging in the rafters.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on September 02, 2015, 08:25:05 AM
@mocat, From OP...
Obviously coffeyville is the grossest and most depressing [...]

So we're looking for second place nominations here. Or maybe first place for the "coffeyville trophy" and we'll just assume coffeyville itself is hanging in the rafters.

well then i would like to canco the OP.

Which part did you drive through? Did you go by the east side of town with all the empty lots from the flood?

i just drove through going north on 169. sad, sad city
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2015, 08:48:41 AM
i just drove through going north on 169. sad, sad city

You drove by the worst part. Well, I can't really think of a "good" part either, but the east side is the saddest part.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on September 02, 2015, 08:59:19 AM
Quote from: mrs gooch bio
mrs gooch's love of young adult post apocalyptic fiction started at an early age, when she was raised in the young adult post apocalyptic fictional real town of coffeyville, kansas

 :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2015, 09:17:34 AM
Quote from: mrs gooch bio
mrs gooch's love of young adult post apocalyptic fiction started at an early age, when she was raised in the young adult post apocalyptic fictional real town of coffeyville, kansas

 :horrorsurprise:

Wow. How do I add that to my profile?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on September 02, 2015, 09:26:47 AM
i just drove through going north on 169. sad, sad city

You drove by the worst part. Well, I can't really think of a "good" part either, but the east side is the saddest part.

One time I got drunk and lost in Coffeyville and found a pretty nice neighborhood on the far west/northwestish part of town, possibly out of the city limits, tho.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 02, 2015, 09:35:36 AM
i just drove through going north on 169. sad, sad city

You drove by the worst part. Well, I can't really think of a "good" part either, but the east side is the saddest part.

One time I got drunk and lost in Coffeyville and found a pretty nice neighborhood on the far west/northwestish part of town, possibly out of the city limits, tho.

Yeah that's near the Country Club, outside of the city limits.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on September 13, 2015, 10:06:26 AM

i just drove through going north on 169. sad, sad city

You drove by the worst part. Well, I can't really think of a "good" part either, but the east side is the saddest part.

One time I got drunk and lost in Coffeyville and found a pretty nice neighborhood on the far west/northwestish part of town, possibly out of the city limits, tho.

It's possible you blacked out and accidentally drove all the way to Ark City, which would appear foppish and utopian by comparison.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 23, 2015, 02:23:43 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on September 23, 2015, 02:48:00 PM
I've only been to one of those places and I didn't think Emporia was all that rednecky.

I also take issue with rednecks only being white
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on September 23, 2015, 02:54:13 PM

I also take issue with rednecks only being white

Take it up with Merriam-Webster.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on September 23, 2015, 02:55:14 PM
look at manhattan, abilene, scott city, etc. laughing their asses off at those prairie village rednecks  :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on September 23, 2015, 03:37:13 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/

Great Bend making the case for #1 after this incident      :Carl:
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Man-leads-police-on-a-chase-after-stealing-a-combine--328810121.html (http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Man-leads-police-on-a-chase-after-stealing-a-combine--328810121.html)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on September 23, 2015, 04:02:16 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/

 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: schreds21 on September 26, 2015, 12:46:39 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/
@hatingfrancis
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: schreds21 on September 26, 2015, 12:48:59 PM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/

Great Bend making the case for #1 after this incident      :Carl:
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Man-leads-police-on-a-chase-after-stealing-a-combine--328810121.html (http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Man-leads-police-on-a-chase-after-stealing-a-combine--328810121.html)
It was actually Ellinwood where this happened
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on September 26, 2015, 01:00:08 PM
That's actually an awesome incident
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on September 26, 2015, 03:26:37 PM
That's actually an awesome incident

Yeah. It makes Ellinwood a candidate for most redneck city, but not worst.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: renocat on September 26, 2015, 05:24:56 PM
The combine wasn't even a John Deere.  He would of out run the cops if it had been.  Yoder us to me hell on Saturday night.  Amish kids would get drunk and have buggy races and pair off and go out into a wheat field to practice houndogging.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slobber on September 26, 2015, 06:05:24 PM
What happens when a yodder teenager gets pregnant?


Gonna win 'em all!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: renocat on September 26, 2015, 07:45:23 PM
What happens when a yodder teenager gets pregnant?


Gonna win 'em all!
I really have not heard of any getting pregnant.  Rumor has it the horny amish boys suck their wallies in boiling water before a roll in the wheat.  Maybe they use a homemade or second hand condom.  I suppose this would lead to marriage.  The under belly of Yoder is dark and seedy. A good place for a horse soap opera.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 05, 2015, 02:35:43 PM
Guys, I went to Dalton Defender Days in Coffeyville this weekend. What a great time honoring the townsfolk who put an end to the Dalton Gang.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PDsBJ6cNCZ4A_FSZz0s2HdJCAwoIM8CvS2crBHt7Rtxe2Y6QztVGKVJU3KUQ0FNRbEQZKxU5TU2l0BxnU4QGOcCKtXsmXZ5-1KVNIRilyMp4BOc9H-sCEGzyt-Cbd-s9Km3AXr_wdVKrB4n9lkj7TB6GoDVjSc0dQVG7ta9pI0_VKvB6GYcZ1yMz89Ifqln9w9DWTVg7eLvRrcTQm75elTYLc6h7KC3Z_BMumDYYv4jqtHfd36eM7FThMWs3P1060Igvmxv5EyhZNsKdi6m_Os8bBEB5h1hdRywBLc2TEhYypevmkbTxcMJb-wQMgsMl2n_nTJFGK6HAjm68yEgPJUL6xuEA5sPS2ZVGOxk9wdzFRWt9u46jLltJafvUx2Xv55PTbcMeJhP0FdWWs8Rryf4bE0lYZaw9J2AzO-fgai5W6BdszJVyW4KwOYUbOu37XyhB7aN_RhgwMc6RBFwMbnS22DIPkVaWcst0AOBK0oII28kLubpLl8BAS_c70vPqI-E4e7s9aRarB6ib2Yrali9lNgOFvYuJCXAK5cozDLQ=s939-no)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 06, 2015, 11:44:47 AM
Do any of these other sucky-ass towns have their own Facebook page that makes it look great to live there?
https://www.facebook.com/cityofcoffeyville
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 11:47:43 AM
Yeah, Coffeyville's facebook page makes the city look like a much better place to live than it really is. I mean, just look at the setting they portray.

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/12087826_1144218382274087_3947139607146051362_o.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hatingfrancisco on October 06, 2015, 11:50:53 AM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/
@hatingfrancis

   :Carl:

Didn't you tell me a story about your senior class riding lawn mowers to school?  Guess the author of that list didn't stop in McPherson.

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 06, 2015, 11:53:40 AM
http://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-kansas/
@hatingfrancis

   :Carl:

Didn't you tell me a story about your senior class riding lawn mowers to school?  Guess the author of that list didn't stop in McPherson.

No, it was to prom and it was about 5 years ago, not my class.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 06, 2015, 11:54:18 AM
Yeah, Coffeyville's facebook page makes the city look like a much better place to live than it really is. I mean, just look at the setting they portray.

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/12087826_1144218382274087_3947139607146051362_o.jpg)

That was a really shitty house. The people who burned it down did the city a favor.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 12:01:56 PM
I really like this photo.

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xal1/t31.0-8/12038696_1143318409030751_2942605112500251203_o.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on October 06, 2015, 12:12:08 PM

Yeah, Coffeyville's facebook page makes the city look like a much better place to live than it really is. I mean, just look at the setting they portray.

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/12087826_1144218382274087_3947139607146051362_o.jpg)

That was a really shitty house. The people who burned it down did the city a favor.

the people of coffeyville could do the city like a thousand more favors
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 01:18:45 PM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on October 06, 2015, 01:30:38 PM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

How long before the meth heads are in there scrapping copper?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 01:34:09 PM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

How long before the meth heads are in there scrapping copper?

I'm sure it was all gone within about 30 min of the FD leaving.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 06, 2015, 01:38:42 PM
I think you guys are missing the posts about Kendall's Koffees with the new city manager and the newly formed Parks Advisory Board and the pictures from Dalton Defenders Days this past weekend and the Homecoming king & queen.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 01:39:48 PM
I think you guys are missing the posts about Kendall's Koffees with the new city manager and the newly formed Parks Advisory Board and the pictures from Dalton Defenders Days this past weekend and the Homecoming king & queen.

You mean the newly formed Parks and Advisory Board that is asking for community volunteers to perform basic maintenance on the park?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on October 06, 2015, 01:43:33 PM
I think you guys are missing the posts about Kendall's Koffees with the new city manager and the newly formed Parks Advisory Board and the pictures from Dalton Defenders Days this past weekend and the Homecoming king & queen.

You mean the newly formed Parks and Advisory Board that is asking for community volunteers to perform basic maintenance on the park?

Yes!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: felix rex on October 22, 2015, 02:47:32 PM
I was at the park near the fair grounds in May and witnessed someone stealing a chihuahua.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SEK_EMAW on November 19, 2015, 10:48:19 AM
Worst town in KS title remains safe...

https://www.facebook.com/cityofcoffeyville/photos/a.536960056333259.134934.227609083935026/693109084051688/?type=3

(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1240108_693109084051688_555725984_n.jpg?oh=40d8f4f8dd4a28d335c28dc7f39ac2d3&oe=56E51ECC)

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on November 27, 2015, 09:27:31 AM
Worst town in KS title remains safe...

https://www.facebook.com/cityofcoffeyville/photos/a.536960056333259.134934.227609083935026/693109084051688/?type=3

(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1240108_693109084051688_555725984_n.jpg?oh=40d8f4f8dd4a28d335c28dc7f39ac2d3&oe=56E51ECC)

i used to frequent that sonic all the time and could have been a statistic  :ohno:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Trim on December 01, 2015, 12:13:53 AM
http://cjonline.com/news/state/2015-11-30/coffeyville-weathers-amazon-job-losses-better-expected
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 01, 2015, 07:35:08 PM
:sad:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 01, 2015, 07:36:14 PM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

Where was it located? I will stop by and give a status this weekend.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 02, 2015, 11:40:03 AM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

Where was it located? I will stop by and give a status this weekend.

None of the house fire photos have captions, so I don't know.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on December 02, 2015, 11:43:10 AM
no thread says "click me" quite like this one.  real pop factor

(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/12/02/b73226ceb1d89af271dd33e8f8d09492.jpg)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 02, 2015, 11:52:42 AM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

Where was it located? I will stop by and give a status this weekend.

None of the house fire photos have captions, so I don't know.

Link?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 02, 2015, 11:53:19 AM
How long do you think that rubble will just stay there where the house burnt down? 1 year? 2?

Where was it located? I will stop by and give a status this weekend.

None of the house fire photos have captions, so I don't know.

Link?

https://www.facebook.com/cityofcoffeyville/photos/pb.227609083935026.-2207520000.1449078781./1144218382274087/?type=3&theater
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 02, 2015, 12:51:13 PM
Within the city limits there isn't more than a stones throw distance between flooded houses and burnt houses I bet
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 02, 2015, 01:09:31 PM
Within the city limits there isn't more than a stones throw distance between flooded houses and burnt houses I bet

The flooded houses are no longer there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 02, 2015, 01:19:51 PM
Within the city limits there isn't more than a stones throw distance between flooded houses and burnt houses I bet

The flooded houses are no longer there.

Did they all burn down?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 02, 2015, 01:24:17 PM

Within the city limits there isn't more than a stones throw distance between flooded houses and burnt houses I bet

The flooded houses are no longer there.

Did they all burn down?

Probably arson
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 02, 2015, 01:28:48 PM
All the flooded houses were torn down because the refinery paid for them since there was an oil leak during the flood.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on December 16, 2015, 12:26:54 PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/the-most-embarrassing-losses-in-sports-history/ss-BBmYpdc?ocid=mailsignout#image=19

Two ties to Coffeyville:
2003 Qatz OL Ryan Lilja attended Coffeyville Community College
Ditto for Buster Douglas
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on February 29, 2016, 03:58:35 PM
Coffeyville came in #2!

http://www.zippia.com/advice/laziest-places-in-kansas/ 

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on February 29, 2016, 04:03:19 PM
corpus christi reminded me of a more texasy and oily coffeyville
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on February 29, 2016, 04:11:10 PM
corpus christi reminded me of a more texasy and oily coffeyville

Mocat isn't about that salt life
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on February 29, 2016, 04:13:24 PM
somewhere out there is a Batt BcKee who fled corpus and posts on like a Mexican soccer board and his hometown facebook thread is even more ridiculous
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on February 29, 2016, 04:17:19 PM
somewhere out there is a Batt BcKee who fled corpus and posts on like a Mexican soccer board and his hometown facebook thread is even more ridiculous

 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: HerrSonntag on February 29, 2016, 04:18:07 PM
corpus christi reminded me of a more texasy and oily coffeyville

Mocat isn't about that salt life
I could get behind this comparison.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on March 01, 2016, 02:34:56 PM
somewhere out there is a Batt BcKee who fled corpus and posts on like a Mexican soccer board and his hometown facebook thread is even more ridiculous

For the record, I am not from Coffeyville. Moran, KS does not register on any of the shittiest cities list. :)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on March 21, 2016, 09:12:53 AM
Quote
McPherson is 35 miles straight south of my hometown, Salina, in central Kansas.

from Fitz's #FireBruce article
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: joda on March 27, 2016, 05:45:11 PM
somewhere out there is a Batt BcKee who fled corpus and posts on like a Mexican soccer board and his hometown facebook thread is even more ridiculous

For the record, I am not from Coffeyville. Moran, KS does not register on any of the shittiest cities list. :)anything
FYP
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: wetwillie on March 27, 2016, 05:49:15 PM
Quote
McPherson is 35 miles straight south of my hometown, Salina, in central Kansas.

from Fitz's #FireBruce article

Brent Venables cancels him out, so get mumped.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on April 27, 2016, 09:18:26 PM
Dodge City is so rough ridin' horrible they get first, second, and third
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Dodge-City-men-charged-with-hate-crimes-in-attack-on-Somali-men-377339271.html
Shut it the eff down
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on April 27, 2016, 09:20:51 PM
forgot to mention I got to see the end of a murder police chase from outside my window at work yesterday

http://salinapost.com/2016/04/27/new-details-released-in-starlite-motel-murder-investigation/ (http://salinapost.com/2016/04/27/new-details-released-in-starlite-motel-murder-investigation/)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: schreds21 on April 28, 2016, 06:15:13 PM
Dodge City is so rough ridin' horrible they get first, second, and third
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Dodge-City-men-charged-with-hate-crimes-in-attack-on-Somali-men-377339271.html
Shut it the eff down
:sdeek:  Hating Francis!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on October 11, 2016, 06:54:18 PM
This already has 50 likes in 3 hours

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161011/b8dc1fddc8deb59ef9a331ab253bb6df.png)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 30, 2016, 09:40:56 AM
I'm not posting this in the FB thread because the FB timeline that I saw this on was not a person from Coffeyville, but they shared this status of a person from Coffeyville (who I don't know)...


[attachment deleted by admin]
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 30, 2016, 10:57:34 AM
Is this caused by the aerosol plant explosion in Neodesha? Which is effecting a lot of towns, and not just Coffeyville, right?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 30, 2016, 10:58:16 AM
Is this caused by the aerosol plant explosion in Neodesha? Which is effecting a lot of towns, and not just Coffeyville, right?

Yeah. It will be Oklahoma's problem soon enough (probably already is).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: hatingfrancisco on November 30, 2016, 10:59:40 AM
Got the windows on my new car shot out in Dodge City on Thanksgiving night.   :bang:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 30, 2016, 11:01:41 AM
Were you out black Friday shopping?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on November 30, 2016, 11:07:55 AM
Quick draw battle gone wrong
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 30, 2016, 11:10:57 AM
Is this caused by the aerosol plant explosion in Neodesha? Which is effecting a lot of towns, and not just Coffeyville, right?

Yeah. It will be Oklahoma's problem soon enough (probably already is).

Yes. A lot of people commented to that effect and she said something like, "This post is about Coffeyville. If you want to say something about your town then you can make your own post."
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on November 30, 2016, 11:11:33 AM
Lol
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: dmartin on November 30, 2016, 04:15:46 PM
Is this caused by the aerosol plant explosion in Neodesha? Which is effecting a lot of towns, and not just Coffeyville, right?

Yeah. It will be Oklahoma's problem soon enough (probably already is).

Yes. A lot of people commented to that effect and she said something like, "This post is about Coffeyville. If you want to say something about your town then you can make your own post."

aka, my problem should be your concern, but I don't have time for your problem to be my concern
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on November 30, 2016, 05:49:55 PM
Drink more water before it's too late!!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: schreds21 on November 30, 2016, 06:20:26 PM
Got the windows on my new car shot out in Dodge City on Thanksgiving night.   :bang:
Just cowboys blowing off some steam after months on the hot, dusty trail.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 17, 2017, 05:07:49 PM
Not to be out done by Wichita, Coffeyville is keeping up with the murder rate (per capita).
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: GregKSU1027 on April 17, 2017, 05:29:34 PM
Has Park City been mentioned? if not then Park City
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on April 18, 2017, 05:10:11 AM
Not to be out done by Wichita, Coffeyville is keeping up with the murder rate (per capita).

SEK is so great.  :love:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 19, 2017, 11:46:45 AM
And now apparently a high school student has been arrested for threatening to shoot everyone who was wearing red to school tomorrow.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on April 19, 2017, 12:48:55 PM
Why red?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on April 19, 2017, 01:10:50 PM
Why red?

'sposed to wear red on Monday.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on April 19, 2017, 01:17:10 PM
Why red?

'sposed to wear red on Monday.

To celebrate Liverpool's victory over Crystal Palace?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 20, 2017, 03:00:24 PM
Quote
FEDERAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST COFFEYVILLE MAN FOR BUYING EXPLOSIVE DEVICE; REVENGE CITED AS REASON FOR SEEKING EXPLOSIVES

COFFEYVILLE — An 18-year-old Coffeyville man has been charged in federal court with purchasing an explosive grenade via a website known in cyber circles as the "dark web."

WTF, Coffeyville. I'm getting scared to go there this weekend.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on April 20, 2017, 03:02:48 PM
Why red?

'sposed to wear red on Monday.

To celebrate Liverpool's victory over Crystal Palace?

to commemorate Coffeyville being mentioned in the 2002 mcconaughey blockbuster Reign of Fire
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 20, 2017, 03:04:47 PM
Quote
FEDERAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST COFFEYVILLE MAN FOR BUYING EXPLOSIVE DEVICE; REVENGE CITED AS REASON FOR SEEKING EXPLOSIVES

COFFEYVILLE — An 18-year-old Coffeyville man has been charged in federal court with purchasing an explosive grenade via a website known in cyber circles as the "dark web."

WTF, Coffeyville. I'm getting scared to go there this weekend.

Quote
Martin used bitcoins, which are a form of digital currency used in peer-to-peer online transactions, to seek the purchase of the grenade via the encrypted website.
...
However, the FBI was able to intercept the message and conducted a controlled delivery of an inert explosive device, intended to be Martin's initial purchase, to Martin's address.
...
 The Associated Press interviewed Gradert, who said his client was a "kind of a dumb 18-year-old kid" who wanted to used the grenade to blow up a truck as revenge because someone had damaged his mother's car.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on April 20, 2017, 03:07:31 PM
Has anyone heard from the TBT lately?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on April 20, 2017, 03:38:34 PM
This Gradert guy seems like a hell of an attorney.

It's kind of like how oscar talks about our basketball team after the coaches pick them to finish 8th or 9th.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Emo EMAW on April 20, 2017, 03:42:13 PM
Has anyone heard from the TBT lately?

They only said "kind of dumb." 
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on April 20, 2017, 03:49:03 PM
And now apparently a high school student has been arrested for threatening to shoot everyone who was wearing red to school tomorrow.

My mom just texted me "Did we make the news again?" and then told me about this kid.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on April 20, 2017, 05:14:44 PM
Holton?

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on April 20, 2017, 08:35:37 PM
You should get your mom out of that shithole, Mrs. Gooch.  I have 80 acres about 50 miles from there I will sell you.


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on April 23, 2017, 03:57:08 PM
Has anyone heard from the TBT lately?

They only said "kind of dumb."

:D
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on April 25, 2017, 06:26:19 AM
Rumor is he cut his head off.  http://www.parsonssun.com/news/article_7633fe0a-1b3f-11e7-9b56-8b8d048454c2.html   :surprised:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on April 25, 2017, 08:13:06 AM
Quote
Moses made a first appearance Thursday afternoon in Judge Robert Fleming’s courtroom. The case was assigned to Judge Jeffry Jack, but Jack was conducting a wedding ceremony in his courtroom.

What a strange paragraph to include in that article.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on May 01, 2017, 06:38:03 PM
Topeka is it now, right?  4 people got murdered in a shooting yesterday and there's another one today.  I wouldn't feel save going to Dillion's if I lived in Topeka. :Yuck:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on May 01, 2017, 07:05:23 PM
Topeka is it now, right?  4 people got murdered in a shooting yesterday and there's another one today.  I wouldn't feel save going to Dillion's if I lived in Topeka. :Yuck:

Come on now give Top City a break. It was an ordinary triple murder followed by a suicide.    :blindfold:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SdK on May 01, 2017, 07:13:17 PM
Topeka is it now, right?  4 people got murdered in a shooting yesterday and there's another one today.  I wouldn't feel save going to Dillion's if I lived in Topeka. :Yuck:
3 murdered. One suicided himself.

That dillons is now closed and it's being converted to a community health clinic.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on May 01, 2017, 08:44:18 PM
I really don't like Washington or Lawrence. Spring Hill rough ridin' sucks too.  There's also a town North of Wichita that is identical to Raytown/South KCMO, so obv shitty
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on May 01, 2017, 11:34:15 PM
Has Park City been mentioned? if not then Park City

Park City is a valuable asset to SC KS.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on May 01, 2017, 11:59:05 PM
Has Park City been mentioned? if not then Park City

Park City is a valuable asset to SC KS.

In the same way a toilet is a valuable asset to a house.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on May 02, 2017, 08:44:08 AM
Aren't topeka and lawrence the same place?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SdK on May 02, 2017, 09:20:38 AM
Aside from difference in University size and bar seen, yes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 03, 2017, 05:53:24 PM
I really don't like Washington or Lawrence. Spring Hill rough ridin' sucks too.  There's also a town North of Wichita that is identical to Raytown/South KCMO, so obv shitty

 :confused:


Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on August 29, 2017, 10:32:05 AM
Long story short, I stumbled into a night at the Coffeyville fair earlier this month and actually enjoyed it.

Got pretty wrecked and ended up at the bar downtown, was a solid 8-10 people there.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on August 29, 2017, 10:41:16 AM
Long story short, I stumbled into a night at the Coffeyville fair earlier this month and actually enjoyed it.

Got pretty wrecked and ended up at the bar downtown, was a solid 8-10 people there.

Did you go to the Rodeo portion?

Which bar? Chick's?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on August 29, 2017, 10:53:12 AM
Long story short, I stumbled into a night at the Coffeyville fair earlier this month and actually enjoyed it.

Got pretty wrecked and ended up at the bar downtown, was a solid 8-10 people there.

Did you go to the Rodeo portion?

Which bar? Chick's?

Concert night.

Across the street from Chick's.. called The Yoke, think it was Dirty's before.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on August 29, 2017, 11:22:52 AM
Those are very Coffeyvilley bar names
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Pete on August 30, 2017, 12:31:41 PM
I walked into West Ridge Mall this past weekend, for the first time in over a decade.  Can I change my vote to Topeka?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: SdK on August 30, 2017, 12:50:51 PM
Thanks for saying hello.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on December 12, 2017, 02:27:33 PM
https://www.theonion.com/emporia-kansas-named-best-small-town-in-america-to-esc-1821184889
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 20, 2017, 07:35:48 AM
Does coffeyville even have 2 shootings in the span of a week?

Drive by shooting this morning around 3AM at like 15th and Colorado. First the aggieville one and now this? Yikes.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 20, 2017, 08:16:38 AM
Does coffeyville even have 2 shootings in the span of a week?

Drive by shooting this morning around 3AM at like 15th and Colorado. First the aggieville one and now this? Yikes.

Does a triple murder/suicide count as 2 (or more) shootings within a week?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 20, 2017, 08:17:24 AM
Does coffeyville even have 2 shootings in the span of a week?

Drive by shooting this morning around 3AM at like 15th and Colorado. First the aggieville one and now this? Yikes.

Does a triple murder/suicide count as 2 (or more) shootings within a week?

Was it at multiple locations or same location?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 20, 2017, 08:23:03 AM
Does coffeyville even have 2 shootings in the span of a week?

Drive by shooting this morning around 3AM at like 15th and Colorado. First the aggieville one and now this? Yikes.

Does a triple murder/suicide count as 2 (or more) shootings within a week?

Was it at multiple locations or same location?

Same location.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: The Big Train on December 20, 2017, 08:24:05 AM
Does coffeyville even have 2 shootings in the span of a week?

Drive by shooting this morning around 3AM at like 15th and Colorado. First the aggieville one and now this? Yikes.

Does a triple murder/suicide count as 2 (or more) shootings within a week?

Was it at multiple locations or same location?

Same location.

That only counts as one IMO. Also these in MHK happened different days at different locations.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: _33 on December 20, 2017, 10:22:56 AM
I walked into West Ridge Mall this past weekend, for the first time in over a decade.  Can I change my vote to Topeka?

West Ridge used to be such an awesome place when I was a kid.  KB Toys, Old Country Buffet, Laser Tag, Sbarro, theater.  How the mighty have fallen.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 20, 2017, 10:38:59 AM
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Coffeyville-Kansas.html

Higher crime index than 97.3% of US cities. Damn.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: star seed 7 on December 20, 2017, 10:41:19 AM
I walked into West Ridge Mall this past weekend, for the first time in over a decade.  Can I change my vote to Topeka?

West Ridge used to be such an awesome place when I was a kid.  KB Toys, Old Country Buffet, Laser Tag, Sbarro, theater.  How the mighty have fallen.

Giggle at the dirty shirts at gadzooks
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 20, 2017, 10:46:35 AM
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Coffeyville-Kansas.html

Higher crime index than 97.3% of US cities. Damn.

That doesn't even show the murders from this year.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on December 20, 2017, 10:51:47 AM
Meh, that Coffeyville deal (if referring to the one in April) was the first murders there in almost 5 years, wasn't it?

Pretty impressive actually.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on December 28, 2017, 12:05:16 PM
Quote from: City of Coffeyville
Notice regarding credit/debit card payments to the City of Coffeyville -
Effective January 1, 2018, a 1.75% fee will be imposed on the total amount of all credit and debit card transactions made at the city.

The comments from these people bitching about the credit card fee when other cities have been charging this for years.  :dubious:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on January 30, 2018, 08:11:16 PM
Two shootings plus a hostage situation within the last 48 hours.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 30, 2018, 10:38:37 PM
It’s a war zone.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on January 31, 2018, 08:51:53 AM
I'm glad I got out of that dangerous town and moved to Wichita. Much safer.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on May 03, 2018, 06:52:16 PM
Big win for Newton

http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article210371749.html?__twitter_impression=true (http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article210371749.html?__twitter_impression=true)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on May 04, 2018, 04:54:26 AM
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: puniraptor on May 04, 2018, 04:54:40 AM

Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on June 22, 2018, 07:19:09 PM
The hits just keep on coming in Parsons.

http://www.parsonssun.com/news/article_303288aa-755b-11e8-901a-3bdde5a0c066.html (http://www.parsonssun.com/news/article_303288aa-755b-11e8-901a-3bdde5a0c066.html)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on May 09, 2019, 05:48:54 PM
Looks like a vote for Fort Scott.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/07/poorest-cities-in-every-state-in-the-us/39431283/


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: kslim on July 02, 2019, 07:26:36 AM
im sure its been mentioned but the lansing/leavenworth combo is absolutely gross
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on July 03, 2019, 05:44:50 PM
Kansas news service did an episode on child vaccinations, and said the most that aren't vaccinated haven't gotten the shots because of spotty availability in rural areas.  They noted that Coffeyville is one of the only school districts in the state where the school district provides vaccinations.  Coffeyville schoolchildren have a 90%+ vaccination rate, described as a public health wet dream.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 13, 2019, 08:43:05 PM
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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on February 18, 2021, 01:07:47 PM
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11474972/

Film depicting the Dalton Gang attempted robbery of TWO coffeyville banks
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on February 18, 2021, 01:13:49 PM
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11474972/

Film depicting the Dalton Gang attempted robbery of TWO coffeyville banks

Is this on a streaming service?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on February 18, 2021, 01:27:08 PM
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11474972/

Film depicting the Dalton Gang attempted robbery of TWO coffeyville banks

I don't think it is yet.  It's having a premier screening sometime soon.  I just saw it on facebook

Is this on a streaming service?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: 8manpick on February 18, 2021, 01:36:00 PM
Two brothers lyin’ dead in Coffeeville
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on February 25, 2021, 04:03:07 PM
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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on February 25, 2021, 06:26:21 PM
Has anyone watched Ninth Street? Movie about Junction City:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Street
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on May 03, 2021, 02:00:54 PM
canco it's Osawatomie. yikes
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on May 03, 2021, 04:00:00 PM
canco it's Osawatomie. yikes

Oooo, Osawatomie is a good one.

- Home to the state insane asylum
- Technically part of the KC Metro area but feels like a small town in SE Kansas
- John Brown history connections

I went fishing on the Marais Des Cygnes river one time and got some weird vibes driving through town, like they knew I was from out of town and were watching me.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on May 09, 2021, 10:30:49 AM
'nother drive by in Parsons.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Shooter Jones on June 18, 2021, 11:17:33 AM
canco it's Osawatomie. yikes

Oooo, Osawatomie is a good one.

- Home to the state insane asylum
- Technically part of the KC Metro area but feels like a small town in SE Kansas
- John Brown history connections

I went fishing on the Marais Des Cygnes river one time and got some weird vibes driving through town, like they knew I was from out of town and were watching me.

Few miles down the road, but watched a doc about the murder outside of Lacygnes. Seems like a mumped area.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: mocat on June 18, 2021, 11:42:41 AM
lacygne is awesome. it's an ozarks hillbilly town transplanted to KS
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on November 29, 2021, 04:38:03 PM
'nother drive by in Parsons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-town-with-the-highest-robbery-rate-in-every-state/ss-AARef0I?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531#image=17
 
Kansas: Parsons
> Robberies per 100k people: 117.4 (Kansas: 31.8)
> Number of robberies: 11 (Kansas: 928)
> Violent crimes per 100k people: 917.5 (Kansas: 425.0)
> Poverty rate: 22.9% (Kansas: 12.0%)
> Population within reporting jurisdiction: 9,373 (Kansas: 2,913,805)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on November 29, 2021, 09:51:35 PM
Holy crap. Can we give SEKS to Arkansas?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on November 30, 2021, 10:36:29 AM
Olathe just had a double homicide


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 02, 2021, 07:03:47 AM
'nother drive by in Parsons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-town-with-the-highest-robbery-rate-in-every-state/ss-AARef0I?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531#image=17
 
Kansas: Parsons
> Robberies per 100k people: 117.4 (Kansas: 31.8)
> Number of robberies: 11 (Kansas: 928)
> Violent crimes per 100k people: 917.5 (Kansas: 425.0)
> Poverty rate: 22.9% (Kansas: 12.0%)
> Population within reporting jurisdiction: 9,373 (Kansas: 2,913,805)


 :Woot:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 02, 2021, 07:46:55 AM
These shithole SEK towns embrace their identity and revel in it.  In fact, all of SEK does and I find it fascinating that these people embrace the decay. 

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lacygne is awesome. it's an ozarks hillbilly town transplanted to KS
  I really need to go there an see how it compares to Blue Mound.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 02, 2021, 08:01:16 AM
These shithole SEK towns embrace their identity and revel in it.  In fact, all of SEK does and I find it fascinating that these people embrace the decay. 

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lacygne is awesome. it's an ozarks hillbilly town transplanted to KS
  I really need to go there an see how it compares to Blue Mound.

It's Blue Mound with a power plant.  Neither has the historic significance of Mapleton.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 02, 2021, 08:10:39 AM
These shithole SEK towns embrace their identity and revel in it.  In fact, all of SEK does and I find it fascinating that these people embrace the decay. 

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lacygne is awesome. it's an ozarks hillbilly town transplanted to KS
  I really need to go there an see how it compares to Blue Mound.

It's Blue Mound with a power plant.  Neither has the historic significance of Mapleton.

Been years since I've been to Mapleton, last I heard they lost their gas service.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 02, 2021, 08:17:19 AM
These shithole SEK towns embrace their identity and revel in it.  In fact, all of SEK does and I find it fascinating that these people embrace the decay. 

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lacygne is awesome. it's an ozarks hillbilly town transplanted to KS
  I really need to go there an see how it compares to Blue Mound.

It's Blue Mound with a power plant.  Neither has the historic significance of Mapleton.

Been years since I've been to Mapleton, last I heard they lost their gas service.

No idea.  I know Ferrell Gas recently closed their Moran location.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on December 02, 2021, 08:26:55 AM
For anyone interested in the history of Guthrie's Mound in Mapleton.

https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1982autumn_cobb.pdf
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on December 15, 2021, 06:49:56 PM
https://www.parsonspd.com/press_view.php?id=200

  :facepalm:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on January 08, 2022, 08:31:28 AM
Can't believe I missed both of these.  New lows in Parsons.

https://www.koamnewsnow.com/erie-man-arrested-for-alleged-animal-abuse/ (https://www.koamnewsnow.com/erie-man-arrested-for-alleged-animal-abuse/)
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on January 13, 2022, 05:10:56 PM
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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on January 14, 2022, 12:22:46 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: slackcat on January 21, 2022, 07:17:06 AM
 :ROFL:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Phil Titola on May 15, 2022, 09:34:16 PM
Do we talk about random KS small towns and why they are unique/weird here or does that need its own thread?  I think it needs its own imo.

Example - Cawker City with the twine thing.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2022, 06:42:59 PM
Do we talk about random KS small towns and why they are unique/weird here or does that need its own thread?  I think it needs its own imo.

Example - Cawker City with the twine thing.
Atwood KS has a tank in the parking lot of a Casey's

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on May 17, 2022, 08:59:37 AM
https://twitter.com/oldroadside/status/1526557189187452928?s=20&t=RH8KTcPmt_Eh4yTKlKPaig
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: KST8FAN on June 05, 2022, 06:57:19 PM
https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/after-hours-beer-party-forces-kansas-towns-pool-to-close/


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Tobias on June 05, 2022, 10:01:43 PM
what’s your alibi, mocat?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on June 05, 2022, 11:38:03 PM
https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/after-hours-beer-party-forces-kansas-towns-pool-to-close/


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That’s a nice city pool in Dighton.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: steve dave on June 06, 2022, 09:07:28 AM
After Hours Beer Party
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on June 08, 2022, 08:48:17 PM
Don't know if they still have it or not, but Dighton used to host a massive dunk ball tournament at their high school. I was on 9 foot rims and you had to be 6'2" or under to play. People would come from all over the plains to play in that thing. It was physical a.f. Anyway, that tournament was incred, Dighton, obviously, isn't.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 16, 2022, 03:50:53 PM
Leavenworth is trending on Twitter right now.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Kat Kid on August 16, 2022, 04:28:49 PM
Leavenworth is trending on Twitter right now.
I think that is Washington.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: TheHamburglar on August 16, 2022, 05:06:31 PM
Holton?

This is the correct answer. Just google Jacob Ewing and read about how a lot of people around town reacted
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on August 17, 2022, 11:15:00 AM
 :sdeek:
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article171529057.html
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Brock Landers on August 17, 2022, 11:22:52 AM
There were a couple of people at my company that actually brought in a little Justice for Jacob sign for their desks   :sdeek:
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Pete on October 15, 2022, 09:49:17 PM
Suck it, Rossville.

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on October 17, 2022, 01:25:40 PM
Going to Neewolah in a few weeks for a family getaway!
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on February 24, 2023, 07:37:38 PM
https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-news/list-names-poorest-town-in-kansas/

It's and P's to our sunflower brothers in Chetopa but let's be real, they are basically Okies right?

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: ben ji on February 24, 2023, 07:39:16 PM
Is Chetopa a real town? I see it exists on a map but is it really there? Has anyone actually been there?

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on February 25, 2023, 12:22:48 PM
Is Chetopa a real town? I see it exists on a map but is it really there? Has anyone actually been there?

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I've been to the Catfish Capitol of Kansas several times.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Gooch on February 26, 2023, 04:01:40 PM
Is Chetopa a real town? I see it exists on a map but is it really there? Has anyone actually been there?

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I've been to the Catfish Capitol of Kansas several times.
Same
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: deputy dawg on August 23, 2023, 03:07:10 PM
Some people on this board have some thinking to do about shaming Coffeyville:

https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-small-towns-in-kansas-were-ranked-among-us-favorites.html
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on August 23, 2023, 03:42:21 PM
Some people on this board have some thinking to do about shaming Coffeyville:

https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-small-towns-in-kansas-were-ranked-among-us-favorites.html
Very weird list. I think they are using a bot to write those things nowadays. I did not know that Marysville was a "retirement destination." Maybe for folks from Bremen or Beattie?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on October 26, 2023, 01:03:21 PM
Guess who's going to Neewolah this weekend in beatuiful Independence, Kansas?
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: MakeItRain on October 27, 2023, 02:41:06 PM
Some people on this board have some thinking to do about shaming Coffeyville:

https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-small-towns-in-kansas-were-ranked-among-us-favorites.html

The Coffeyville picture is some random house that's not even nice or unique.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: bunter on October 27, 2023, 05:12:20 PM
Some people on this board have some thinking to do about shaming Coffeyville:

https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-small-towns-in-kansas-were-ranked-among-us-favorites.html

The Coffeyville picture is some random house that's not even nice or unique.

Yeah there are many other run down homes that could've been featured instead
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: DaBigTrain on October 27, 2023, 05:18:22 PM
I went to school for 2 years in coffeyville and it is an absolute shithole.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Katpappy on October 28, 2023, 06:38:47 AM
Gees, I only drove thru it a few times, but every time I came up with the same conclusion.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on February 25, 2024, 05:40:14 PM
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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on February 25, 2024, 08:12:20 PM
An important detail to remember about Coffeyville is that from the 1930 census thru the 1980, it maintained a population of over 15k; maintaining over 17k for about 40 of those years consecutively.

There are now less than 9,000 permanent residents there as of the 2020 census.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on February 25, 2024, 08:13:00 PM
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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: nicname on February 25, 2024, 08:39:43 PM
I'm surprised nobody has nominated Salina yet

Rankings of mid-sized Kansas Cities without major colleges. 

Best to worst:

Salina > Hutchinson > Garden City > Dodge City

I was going to make an argument on Hutch being in front of Salina, but the Salina Mall vs the Hutch Mall /Empty Ghost Mall is probably worth enough points to push Salina back in front. But there is a large gap between Hutch and Garden City.

Update: Salina mall now also a ghost mall, but Salina downtown is actually very nice now with a lot going on.

Pretty awesome iyam
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Cire on March 07, 2024, 05:18:48 PM
Just got back from Independence.

Holy mother of God it’s insanely expensive to go out to eat in South East Kansas

17.99 for chicken fingers and fries

These rubes are being price gouged by all the business owners.


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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on March 07, 2024, 06:21:12 PM
Just got back from Independence.

Holy mother of God it’s insanely expensive to go out to eat in South East Kansas

17.99 for chicken fingers and fries

These rubes are being price gouged by all the business owners.


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No wonder small-town folks are feeling the pinch of inflation so much.
Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Institutional Control on March 24, 2024, 10:22:48 PM
Good news for KS, not the list.

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Title: Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas
Post by: Spracne on March 24, 2024, 10:24:53 PM
Check out Texas representing!