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Beloit, county seat of Mitchell County, is located in the Solomon River Valley in the north central area of Kansas. It is also in the center of the Smoky Hills in the land of the Kansas Post Rock. It is located on State Highways 24, 14 and 9. Beloit is 50 minutes from Interstate 70 and 30 minutes from U.S. Highway 81. It is 3 and ½ hours from Wichita, Kansas City and Omaha and 6 hours from Denver and the Rocky Mountains.
Beloit is located 15 minutes from Waconda Lake and Glen Elder State Park. This area provides excellent fishing, hunting, camping and nature study. The whole area provides for the needs of an abundance of birds and wildlife including bald eagles, herons, cranes, deer, prairie dogs, bobcat, quail, prairie chickens, waterfowl, etc.
The state’s central location, productive workforce, excellent transportation network, high quality living conditions, excellent educational system, equitable tax structure, abundant energy resources with competitive rates as well as incentives to business such as tax relief and training assistance make Kansas an ideal location.
Originally homesteaded in 1866 and incorporated in 1872, Beloit began at the foot of Mill Street, on the banks of the Solomon River, where the Beloit Mill was built.
There a spring gushed forth and was a stopping place for Indians, soldiers, buffalo hunters and settlers on their way westward or looking for homesteads in the area. A young man, Tim Hersey, conceived the idea of a water power site to manufacture lumber out of the large cottonwood trees that lined the river banks. He constructed the first dam and erected a saw mill, the next year a flour mill was added, later the water and power plants, library, hospital, schools and the town grew.
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