De Soto became a boom town after it was announced in March 1942 that the Sunflower Ordnance Works would be built south of the town. Traffic on the town’s main street, which was Kansas Highway 10 at the time, was said to be bumper-to-bumper for two hours at shift changes at the plant.
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