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Hays is a town of 21,000 people in the region of . The largest city in northwestern Kansas, and the economic and cultural center of the region. It is also a college town, home to Fort Hays State University.
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  • Type: City with 21,100 residents
  • Description: city in Kansas, United States
  • Also known as: “Big Creek Station”, “Hays City”, “Hays, Kansas”, and “Hays, KS”
  • Postal code: 67601

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Hays and Lewis Field Stadium.

Photo: IveGoneAway, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, originally named Fort Fletcher, was a United States Army fort near Hays, Kansas. Active from 1865 to 1889 it was an important frontier post during the American Indian Wars of the late 19th century.

Stadium
Photo: Sesamehoneytart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lewis Field is a sport stadium in Hays, Kansas. The facility is primarily used by Fort Hays State University for college football team. The stadium is also the primary home field for and Thomas More Prep-Marian.

Sports venue
The is a 6,814 seat multi-purpose arena in Hays, Kansas. It was built in 1973. It is the home of the Fort Hays State University Tigers women's volleyball team, as well as the men's and women's basketball teams.

Hays

Latitude
38.871° or 38° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
-99.3312° or 99° 19′ 52″ west
Population
21,100
Elevation
2,021 feet (616 metres)
IATA airport code
HYS
United Nations Location Code
US HYS
Open location code
86C2VMC9+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151644723
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4272782
Wiki­data ID
Q1057071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Hays” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هايز”
  • Basque: “Hays”
  • Belarusian: “Хейс”
  • Catalan: “Hays”
  • Cebuano: “Hays”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەیس، کانزاس”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەیس”
  • Chechen: “Гейс”
  • Chinese: “Hays”
  • Chinese: “海思”
  • Chinese: “海斯”
  • Dagbani: “Hays”
  • Danish: “Hays”
  • Dutch: “Hays”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هايز”
  • French: “Hays”
  • German: “Hays”
  • Gilaki: “هیز (کانزاس)”
  • Gilaki: “هیز”
  • Greek: “Χέις”
  • Haitian: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Haitian: “Hays”
  • Hebrew: “הייז, קנזס”
  • Hebrew: “הייז”
  • Hebrew: “הייס, קנזס”
  • Hungarian: “Hays”
  • Ido: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Ido: “Hays”
  • Irish: “Hays”
  • Italian: “Hays”
  • Japanese: “ヘイズ”
  • Korean: “헤이스”
  • Ladin: “Hays”
  • Malagasy: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Malagasy: “Hays”
  • Marathi: “हेझ”
  • Marathi: “हेस”
  • Mazanderani: “هیز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hays”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hays”
  • Norwegian: “Hays”
  • Persian: “هیز، کانزاس”
  • Persian: “هیز”
  • Polish: “Hays”
  • Portuguese: “Hays”
  • Russian: “Хейс (Канзас)”
  • Russian: “Хейс”
  • Serbian: “Хејз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hays”
  • Slovenian: “Hays”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هایس، کانزاس”
  • Spanish: “Hays (Kansas)”
  • Spanish: “Hays”
  • Swedish: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Swedish: “Hays”
  • Tatar: “Гейс”
  • Turkish: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Turkish: “Hays”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейс”
  • Urdu: “ہیئز، کنساس”
  • Urdu: “ہیئز”
  • Uzbek: “Hays”
  • Uzbek: “Ҳайс”
  • Vietnamese: “Hays, Kansas”
  • Vietnamese: “Hays”
  • Volapük: “Hays”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hays, Kansas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hays”

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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 “Hays”. Photo: CityOfHays, CC BY-SA 3.0.