Oak Mills, Kansas

Cantonment Martin was intended to be a temporary Army camp to provide support for an engineering expedition led by Stephen H. Long. Possibly the first troops marched from St. Louis, Missouri, to what is now the western border of Missouri. The troops, commanded by Capt. Wyly Martin, established a post that was probably on the northwest section of Cow Island, because of abundant cottonwood timber there.Cow Island was named Isle au Vache by the French, which literally meant Island of the Cow. A lone cow was discovered on the island, in the Missouri River. It was speculated that Indians may have placed it there to prevent its escape or possibly it was a buffalo that strayed from its herd. Eventually the island's name was shortened to Cow Island. This island no longer exists. It is today on the Kansas side of the shore of the Missouri River between Atchison, Kansas, and Fort Leavenworth.Long's expedition set out by boat from St. Louis from St. Louis in June 1819. He started with four boat, but lost one in a river snag along the way. The most useful was the Western Engineer, which was a stern wheeler steamboat. Long was charged with running a peace powwow between two Indian groups and the Indians agreed to stop committing depredations against the Army.Long's men were at the post for the winter and they set out up the river. After they returned in October the post was abandoned. It was temporarily occupied in 1826 and it was called Camp Croghan.

Port Williams is an unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas, United States.

Bean Lake is a lake in Platte County in the U.S. state of Missouri.Bean Lake has the name of Benjamin Bean, a pioneer citizen.

Iatan is a village in Platte County, Missouri within the United States. The population was 69 at the 2010 census. It is within the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Snow Creek is a ski resort on the bluffs above the Missouri River in Marshall Township, Platte County, northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, near the village of Iatan. it opened in 1986 and was the second resort to be developed in the Peak Resorts chain. Overlooking Kansas across the river, the resort plays on its Midwest heritage including a tornado alley tubing trail. A tornado touched ground at the resort at 7:30 p.m. on April 30, 2003 in part of the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence. The tornado did minimal damage and nobody was injured.The lift elevation is 1,099 feet (335 m) and the vertical drop is 300 feet (91 m). It has 3 chair lifts and 3 surface lifts, 11 trails including 1 advanced and 2 easy. It comprises 25 acres (100,000 m2) and its mailing address is Weston, Missouri. in 2019, Snow Creek was purchased by Colorado based Vail Resorts as a part of a $263 million deal.[1]

Short Creek is a stream in Platte County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Bean Lake. Short Creek was so named on account of its relatively short length.

Kickapoo is an unincorporated community in Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Fort de Cavagnial (also known as Fort Cavagnolle, Fort Cavagnal, Post of the Missouri, or Fort de la Trinité) was a French fort and trading post located on the west cliffs of the Missouri River, somewhere north of Kansas City, Kansas, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1744 until about 1764. While the ruins of the site were still visible when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ventured in the area during their famed 1804 westward expedition, all traces of the fort were eventually lost by the mid-19th century. Today, the exact location of the fort is a mystery.

Walnut Township is a township in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 441.

Kickapoo Township is a township in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States.

Dye is an unincorporated community in Platte County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is within the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility (J.R.C.F.) is a military prison at 831 Sabalu Road, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas which opened in 2010. The 224,736-square-foot (20,878.7 m2) prison on 45 acres (18 ha) has a design specification of 512 beds with 43 in special housing and the rest in general housing and dormitory. The prison handles inmates sentenced to terms of ten years or less. It also will house people who are awaiting trial.It is one of three major federal prisons on federal land in Leavenworth. The civilian prison United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth is outside the boundaries of Fort Leavenworth on the southwest edge and the military United States Disciplinary Barracks is on the northeast side near the Sherman Army Airfield. The Joint Regional Correctional Facility is across Coffin Road just southwest of the Disciplinary Barracks.The prison opened as part of the Base Realignment and Closure with the consolidating (and closing) of prisons in Lackland Air Force Base, Fort Sill, and Fort Knox.The prison, rather than using traditional block house construction, utilizes modular cells.The facility has 480 geothermal wells, each 280 feet (85 m) deep to handle its cooling and heating.The street reaching it is named for Master Sergeant Wilberto Sabalu Jr., an Army corrections non-commissioned officer killed in a small arms attack in the Afghanistan War on 6 May 2007.