Chapman

Chapman has served as a railroad town in central Kansas since the 1870s. Set in Dickinson County beside the Smoky Hill River, it developed along the rail corridor that connected western Kansas with eastern markets. Its downtown retains the compact scale of a prairie service community, with broad streets and local businesses at its center. In May 2008, an EF3 tornado struck Chapman, becoming a defining event in the town’s recent history and prompting extensive rebuilding. The surrounding Smoky Hill River valley places Chapman in Kansas’s agricultural interior, near Interstate 70. Find related webcams in central Kansas to build a fuller picture of Chapman and the Smoky Hill River valley.

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