It is here that Dr. Brewster Higley wrote "Home on the Range". Indeed, the north central region of Kansas has vast open landscapes "where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the antelope play". Just north of Lebanon, you are right in the middle of the contiguous 48 states, at the country's geographic center. It includes Phillips, Smith, Jewell, Republic, Rooks, Osborne, Mitchell, Cloud, Ellis, Russell, Lincoln, Ottawa, Ellsworth, and Saline counties.