Kansas State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots
Kansas Symbols, Kansas Emblems, and Kansas Mascots
Browse the state's symbols; state animal, state bird, state flower, state flag, state fossil, state insect, state motto, state seal, state tree, color, dance, fish, mammal, music, nut, reptile seal, and miscellaneous designations, emblems, and mascot of each state with pictures. Find origin of the state name. View the state almanacs, state timelines and peruse state facts and stats such as the capitol, location, and date admitted to the union.
Great Plains
Sunflower State
Kansas Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots |
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| Amphibian | Barred Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium, Baird, 1850) April 13, 1994 |
| Animal | American Buffalo (Bison bison) March 28, 1955 |
| Banner | State Banner, 1925; June 30, 1953 |
| Bird | Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) 1937 |
| Fish | Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) (pending legislation) |
| Flag | State Flag, March 21, 1927 |
| Flower | Common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) 1903 |
| Insect | Honeybee (Apis mellifera) 1976 |
| Marches | "The Kansas March" 1935 Composed by Duff E. Middleton "Here's Kansas" 1992 |
| Motto | "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (To the Stars Through Difficulties) 1861 |
| Reptile | Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) 1986 |
| Seal | Great Seal, May 25, 1861 and revised 1985 |
| Soil | Harney silt loam (Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls) April 12, 1990 |
| Song | "Home on the Range" June 30,1947 As originally written with words by Dr. Brewster Higley and music by Dan Kelly |
| Tree | Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) 1937 |
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