THE 105 COUNTY PROJECT
105 counties. One journey.
Kansas has 105 counties. Most of them are places people drive through on the way to somewhere else. This project is a slow, county-by-county record of what is actually there — the light, the roads, the wildlife, the buildings still standing, and the sky above all of it.
DOCUMENTED SO FAR
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HIGH PLAINS, WESTERN KANSAS
Gove County
Mile after mile of limestone gravel road, dust rolling behind the car, and a quiet watcher on a fence post that studied me longer than I studied it.
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS, NEAR THE NEBRASKA LINE
Phillips County
A deteriorating church north of Agra, found from vague directions and a photograph on Facebook — photographed at sunset, then under the Milky Way.
NORTHEAST KANSAS, NEAR ROBINSON
Brown County
The John Dickenson barn, raised by a family that came from Virginia when Kansas territory was opening and the country was drawing battle lines within itself.
STILL AHEAD
102 counties left to walk into.
Dan — each new county drops into this archive as a name, a region, a photograph, a story, and a date. Nothing here has to be rebuilt as the project grows.