Great Notes of the Great Plains

For this month, we’ll travel to the Midwest and visit a couple of towns in the plains of western Kansas. I had visited these locations some years ago and am finally putting together some information on them and their banks. We’ll start in Sherman County, Kansas, at the far west of the state bordering on Colorado.

As one heads east from Colorado into Kansas on Interstate 70, the first road junction with services is at Goodland, which also serves as the seat of Sherman County. It is a city of around 4,500, and the home to Northwest Kansas Technical College. However, much of Goodland’s survival depends on it being the only town of any size on I-70 in these parts, and so many