Beaverton, Kansas

{{Short description|Ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas}}

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Beaverton is a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States.

History

Initially, the community was known as Bird, which was issued a post office in 1880 and a month later changed the name to Beaverton. The post office was discontinued in 1900.{{cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postofices/search/placename:/county:RA|accessdate=2018-01-05|title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961|publisher=Kansas Historical Society}}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

References

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Further reading

{{See also|Rawlins County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Rawlins County, Kansas}}