Editing Parsons, Kansas (section)

===2000-2020===
On April 19, 2000, an [[F3 tornado]] cut a devastating path of destruction through the center of Parsons.  About 700 homes were damaged and about 100 destroyed, about 60 businesses were damaged and 11 destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parsonssun.com/news/article_766bd7ab-ac5d-58ee-b958-4e6eaa9a8e82.html|title=Tornado changed face of Parsons|date=2019-04-19|website=Parsons Sun|language=en|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref>

On June 5, 2006 the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] named Parsons a 2006 Great American Main Street Award winner for its successful efforts in revitalizing its downtown area through historic preservation.  The award was presented during the 2006 National Main Streets Conference in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]].  Parsons was one of only five cities receiving the 2006 award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Main Street America - Winners |url=https://www.mainstreet.org/mainstreetamerica/mainstreetawards/winners |website=Main Street America |access-date=16 December 2018}}</ref>
 
Parsons is the home of [[Dwayne's Photo]], which became the last processor of [[K-14 process|K-14]] [[Kodachrome]] film in the world<ref name="Sulzberger">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | first=A. G. | last=Sulzberger | title=For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas | date=December 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kansas.com/2010/07/14/1403115/last-kodachrome-roll-processed.html |title=Last Kodachrome roll processed in Parsons &#124; Wichita Eagle |access-date=2011-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408044418/http://www.kansas.com/2010/07/14/1403115/last-kodachrome-roll-processed.html |archive-date=2014-04-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was the location of the final frame taken on the final roll of Kodachrome film produced.<ref name="Sulzberger"/> Parsons is featured prominently in the plot of the 2017 [[Netflix]] movie ''[[Kodachrome (film)|Kodachrome]]'' about a man who takes a [[road trip]] to develop a roll of Kodachrome film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article207339649.html|title=New Netflix movie 'Kodachrome' brings attention to Kansas|newspaper=[[The Wichita Eagle]]|author=Alanis, Kaitlyn|date=April 1, 2018}}</ref>