The Missouri Conservation Department has certified a mammoth eastern cottonwood in Kessler Park as the biggest tree in the state. ... For Kansas City’s cottonwood: 125 + 344 + 30 = 499.

Presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and William Howard Taft were among those who visited the massive cottonwood tree that stood on the Kansas Statehouse grounds until 1984, according to ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — Most Kansas students learn early that the sunflower is the state flower, the meadowlark is the state bird, and the cottonwood is the state tree.

OZAWKIE ? A cottonwood tree that for years had been admired as the largest in the state has taken a beating lately from Mother Nature.The tree in Cottonwood Tree Park near Ozawkie had been ...

People from all over the world visited the large cottonwood tree that had hundreds of shoes, heels, boots, clogs and sneakers nailed to it. It fell during a storm Thursday night.

Kansans learn from an early age that their state tree is the cottonwood, the state song is "Home on the Range" and the state ...

The multi-trunked tree, which measured in at 88 feet tall with a 108-foot canopy spread and a trunk circumference of 36 feet and nine inches, topped a cottonwood in Kansas.

That's why it's also known as plains cottonwood. It is, in fact, the state tree of Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska. Regardless of the state, cottonwoods are often found growing by a river or a lake.