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Cherokee County
City of Baxter Springs

Baxter Springs

Baxter Springs population 4250, is a city on historic Route 66 in . During the US Civil War, it briefly hosted a US fortress and was the site of the Baxter Springs Massacre battle.
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  • Type: Town with 3,890 residents
  • Description: city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
  • Also known as: “Baxter Springs, Kansas” and “Baxter Springs, KS”
  • Postal code: 66713

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lowell.

Village
is a census-designated place in , United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 244. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Baxter Springs.

Baxter Springs

Latitude
37.0236° or 37° 1′ 25″ north
Longitude
-94.7352° or 94° 44′ 7″ west
Population
3,890
Elevation
843 feet (257 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BSG
Open location code
869727F7+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151614653
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4267978
Wiki­data ID
Q2901396
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Baxter Springs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باكستر سبرينغز”
  • Basque: “Baxter Springs”
  • Catalan: “Baxter Springs”
  • Cebuano: “Baxter Springs”
  • Chechen: “Бакстер-Спрингс”
  • Chinese: “Baxter Springs”
  • Chinese: “巴克斯特斯普林斯”
  • Danish: “Baxter Springs”
  • Dutch: “Baxter Springs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكستر سبرينجز”
  • French: “Baxter Springs”
  • German: “Baxter Springs”
  • Gilaki: “بکستر اسپرینگز (کانزاس)”
  • Gilaki: “بکستر اسپرینگز”
  • Haitian: “Baxter Springs, Kansas”
  • Haitian: “Baxter Springs”
  • Hebrew: “מעיינות בקסטר”
  • Ido: “Baxter Springs, Kansas”
  • Ido: “Baxter Springs”
  • Irish: “Baxter Springs”
  • Italian: “Baxter Springs”
  • Ladin: “Baxter Springs”
  • Malagasy: “Baxter Springs, Kansas”
  • Malagasy: “Baxter Springs”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baxter Springs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baxter Springs”
  • Norwegian: “Baxter Springs”
  • Persian: “بکستر اسپرینگز، کانزاس”
  • Persian: “بکستر اسپرینگز”
  • Polish: “Baxter Springs”
  • Portuguese: “Baxter Springs”
  • Russian: “Бакстер-Спрингс”
  • Serbian: “Бакстер Спрингс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baxter Springs, Kansas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baxter Springs”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکستر ایسپرینقز، کانزاس”
  • Spanish: “Baxter Springs (Kansas)”
  • Spanish: “Baxter Springs”
  • Swedish: “Baxter Springs”
  • Tatar: “Бакстер-Спрингс”
  • Ukrainian: “Бакстер-Спрінгс”
  • Uzbek: “Baxter Springs”
  • Uzbek: “Бахтер Спрингс”
  • Vietnamese: “Baxter Springs, Kansas”
  • Vietnamese: “Baxter Springs”
  • Volapük: “Baxter Springs, Spring River”
  • Volapük: “Baxter Springs”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Baxter Springs”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.