Biggest ball of twine

[1][needs update] In Cawker City, Kansas, Frank Stoeber created a ball that contained 1.6 million feet (490,000 m) of twine and had reached an 11-foot-diameter (3.4 m) when he died in 1974.

An adjacent volunteer-run, free to visit museum and gift shop has information on the history of the ball, as well as a variety of souvenirs for sale.

"[1] In Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, James Frank Kotera created the heaviest ball of twine ever built.

During Kotera’s life, the ball was housed in an open-air enclosure in his yard; after his death, a former neighbor organized a fundraiser to relocate it, and in 2024 it was moved to a concrete slab near the Highland Town Hall, where volunteers constructed a shelter to protect it.

[7][10] In Branson, Missouri, a ball of nylon twine built by J. C. Payne of Valley View, Texas, is on display in Ripley's Believe It or Not!