A tornado which affected Great Bend, Kansas, in November 1915, was an extreme case, where a " rain of debris " occurred from the town, a sack of flour was found away, and a cancelled check from the Great Bend bank was found in a field outside of Palmyra, Nebraska, to the northeast.

* Great Bend

Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from Great Bend High School.

Road signs at the entrances to the town commemorate his time there, and the Commons Area at Great Bend High School has been named The Jack Kilby Commons Area.

* Kilby statue in Great Bend

In southeastern Bureau County it turns south at an area known as the " Great Bend ," flowing southwest across western Illinois, past Lacon, Henry and downtown Peoria, the chief city on the river.

Eric Blore had appeared in The Lady Eve and Porter Hall would go on to appear in three other Sturges films: The Great Moment, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges's last American film.

The county is divided into thirty-seven townships: Antelope, Athol, Belle Plaine, Belmont, Benton, Beotia, Buffalo, Capitola, Clifton, Conde, Cornwall, Crandon, Exline, Frankfort, Garfield, Great Bend, Groveland, Harmony, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, La Prairie, Lincoln, Lodi, Mellette, Northville, Olean, Prairie Center, Redfield, Richfield, Spring, Sumner, Tetonka, Three Rivers, Tulare, Turton, Union.

South of I-70, US 281 heads into Barton County and towards the city of Great Bend.

Its county seat and most populous city is Great Bend.

The Great Bend Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Barton County.

* Great Bend, ( county seat )

The cities of Ellinwood, Great Bend, and Hoisington are considered governmentally independent and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.

In the novel ( 1993 ), Jonathan and Martha Kent drive from the Great Bend, Kansas airport to Smallville, which would put Smallville somewhere in central Kansas.

* Great Bend District

The name originated from the language of the Higganumpus Indians which means Great Bend in River.

Great Bend, named for its location at the historic big bend of the Arkansas River, is the most populous city in and the county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States.

In 1871, the Great Bend Town Company, anticipating the westward construction of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, founded Great Bend at a site roughly three miles west of Fort Zarah on the Santa Fe Trail.

Bede states that the Anglii, before coming to Great Britain, dwelt in a land called Angulus, " which lies between the province of the Jutes and the Saxons, and remains unpopulated to this day.

In between lies Strathmore, a derivation of the Gaelic for the Great Valley, which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle.

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

The older hypothesis is that it lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.

The Great Sand Sea lies within the desert's plain and extends from the Siwa Oasis to Jilf al Kabir.

Originally based on the still-existent village of Inverlochy, the town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen, on the shores of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.

Most of this region lies in the lee of the Great Lakes making for abundant snow in some areas.

Shetland () ( from Middle Scots ) is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain.

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

Night life centers around the three main squares in the city center: the Plein ( literally " Square "), the Grote Markt ( literally " Great Market ") and the Buitenhof ( literally the " Outer Court ", which lies just outside the Binnenhof ).

The Adri Varma lies between Sind, Wendar, the Great Waste, and The Black Mountains, forming the northern border of Glantri and defining the northwestern limits of the region.

Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.

It now lies in part of Windsor Great Park.

Her body was transferred to Rouen Cathedral in 1847 ; her epitaph reads: " Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry.

Within the sea, to the east of the main Great Andaman island group, lies Barren Island, the only presently active volcano associated with the Indian subcontinent.

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

Martha is buried in the Great Churchyard which lies in front of the Abbey ruins between St Mary's Church and the Cathedral.

Another narrow strip of arid savanna lies south of the Great Karoo, between the Swartberg Mountains and the Langeberg Mountains.

The Gibson Desert lies to the south and the Tanami Desert lies to the East of the Great Sandy Desert.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

The county lies generally between the Great Salt Lake on the west and the Wasatch Range on the east, which rises to a height of in the county at Thurston Peak.

The Great Salt Lake in the west, which is surrounded by marshland and mudflats, lies at an average elevation of approximately, varying depending on the water level, which can lead to drastic changes in the lake size due to its shallowness.

The narrow, populated portion that lies between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Range is a portion of the Wasatch Front, which is very narrow at this point, complicating north-south transportation in the county.

It lies on the north end of the Great Salt Lake, covering a large area north to the Idaho border and west to the Nevada border.