Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Wichita, KS

Wichita is the largest city in Kansas and the seat of Sedgwick County.

Wichita was founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1870, and it is named for the Wichita people who lived in the area.

Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s, starting with J.R. Mead's trading post in 1864, and it grew into a cattle-drive destination nicknamed "Cowtown" where Wyatt Earp served as a police officer for about a year in 1875 before moving on to Dodge City.

The 2020 census counted 397,532 people in 158,851 households in Wichita, and its metropolitan area held 647,610 people.

Wichita is nicknamed the "Air Capital of the World" because Beechcraft, Cessna and Stearman Aircraft were all founded there in the 1920s and 1930s, and Textron Aviation, Learjet, Airbus and Spirit AeroSystems still design and build aircraft in the city.

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport is the largest airport in Kansas, and McConnell Air Force Base sits in the city's southeast corner.

The Keeper of the Plains, a 44-foot Cor-Ten steel sculpture by Kiowa-Comanche artist Blackbear Bosin, was erected in 1974 for the United States Bicentennial and stands at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers next to the Mid-America All-Indian Center.

Wichita's riverfront museums include Exploration Place, the Mid-America All-Indian Center and Old Cowtown Museum, while the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum occupies the city's original 1892 city hall.

Wichita State University began in 1895 as Fairmount College, became the Municipal University of Wichita in 1926 and took its present name in 1964, and its teams are called the Shockers, shortened from "Wheatshockers," a nickname coined in 1904 because many players earned money shocking wheat.

Pizza Hut was founded in Wichita in 1958, when brothers Dan and Frank Carney opened the first Pizza Hut restaurant there.