Ellis: I-70 at - Exit 146
Ellis straddles Big Creek in western Kansas, where the watercourse and a long-established rail corridor helped shape a transport town on the High Plains. The community developed as a division point on the Union Pacific Railroad, an identity recalled at the Ellis Railroad Museum and in its compact historic core. Ellis is also the boyhood home of Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation; the house where he grew up is preserved as a local museum. Interstate 70 runs along the town’s northern side, connecting this small community with larger Kansas cities. Fields, grassland and broad horizons around the interchange reflect the working agricultural character of Ellis County.
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The landscape around Ellis is a broad High Plains valley along the Smoky Hill River, which has shaped both the town’s linear form and local agricultural economy. Set beside a major Union Pacific rail route in western Kansas, Ellis developed around the railroad and still reflects that heritage in the Ellis Railroad Museum. The town is also associated with Walter P. Chrysler, whose boyhood home is preserved here; he later founded the Chrysler Corporation. Grain fields, open prairie and the river corridor give the community a distinctly western Kansas setting, while Interstate 70 keeps it connected to larger routes across the state. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of western Kansas.
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