East Front is a

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in Wichita,

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. A predominantly residential area, it is located in the east-central part of the city on the north side of

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Geography

East Front is located at (37.682222, -97.304444) at an elevation of . It consists of the area between Douglas Avenue in the north and U.S. 54 in the south and between Grove Street in the west and Hillside Street in the east. East Front borders

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to the north, College Hill to the east, Longview to the southeast, Sunnyside to the south, and New Salem to the northwest.

Government

For the purposes of representation on the Wichita City Council, East Front is in Council District 1. For the purposes of representation in the

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, East Front is in the 29th district of the

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and in the 86th district of the

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Education

The campus of Wichita East High School, part of

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, is on East Douglas Avenue immediately west of East Front. The City Center campus of WSU Tech is located on South Grove Street immediately west of East Front.

Transportation

All the main streets in East Front run along its periphery: Douglas Avenue, which runs east-west along its northern border; Hillside Street, which runs north-south along its eastern side; and Grove Street, which runs north-south along its western side.

runs east-west along the south side of the neighborhood as the Kellogg Avenue freeway, accessible via interchanges at Grove and Hillside.

Wichita Transit Wichita Transit is the public transportation department of the City of Wichita which operates paratransit and transit bus services within Wichita, Kansas, United States. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Fleet ...

offers bus service in East Front on its 21 and 24 routes. On Fridays and Saturdays, the Douglas route of the free Q-Line trolley also services the neighborhood.

References

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