Hays and Ellis County are located in western Kansas at the midway point between Denver and Kansas City. One of the largest cities in western Kansas, Hays has a population of 20,013 and serves as the regional center for business, education, technology, air service, and health care. Ellis County is also a regional hub that serves over 110,000 people.
The area has a rich cultural history that not only typifies the popular legends of the Plains and the Old West, but reaches beyond, into the prehistoric age, when it was a warm Cretaceous sea.
Although there was a day when Hays was a lawless frontier town, and the gunfire every night sounded like the Fourth of July, there has not been a show-down in the streets for a number of years, buffalo no longer stampede the city, and the seashore is quite a bit farther away these days.
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