A FEW FACTS ABOUT PARADISE, KANSAS USA

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Paradise was founded in 1889.
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Originally it was named Ivamar, who according to legend, was a beautiful and popular young woman in the city.
The city was renamed "Paradise" after a hunting expedition led by James Meade stumbled upon the village, having trekked through miles of burnt prairie. On the other side of a creek was green grass, which looked like a paradise to the hunters, and thus the name was changed.

Paradise is located at an elevation of 1,693 feet.
It lies in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains approximately 6 miles north of the Saline River on the north side of Paradise Creek, a tributary of the Saline, immediately west of the creek's confluence with Eagle Creek, which runs south along the city's east side  Located in north-central Kansas 3.5 miles west of U.S. Route 281 on K-18.  Paradise is approximately 127 miles northwest of Wichita, 233 miles west of Kansas City, and 15 miles north-northwest of Russll, the county seat. 
 
As of the census  of 2000, there were 64 people, 28 households, and 16 families residing in the city.
 
K-18, an east-west route, approaches Paradise from the northwest, then turns east north of the city. Paradise Road, a paved county road, enters the city from the south.
 

Paradise is home to several unique structures that were constructed from Post Rock Limestone.  Early settlers to the area discovered that while there was a shortage of timber, limestone was plentiful, and therefore it was commonly used as a building material. It was also commonly used for fence posts. The watertower and the former Kennedy Hotel were recently added to the National Register of Historic Places and featured in an article in the Salina Journal.
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