Berryton, Kansas

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Shawnee County, Kansas}}

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Berryton is an unincorporated community in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States. It is located east of the Topeka Regional Airport.

History

Berryton was laid out in 1888 and named for its two founders, George Washington Berry and his son George Webster Berry.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AEP-CI71TwC&pg=PA73 | title=Historic Shawnee County: The Story of Topeka & Shawnee County | publisher=HPN Books | author=Duncan, Spencer L. | year=2005 | pages=73}}From Berry Creek to Berryton: A History of the Settlements in Shawnee County, Kansas, Founded by George Washington Berry and His Son, George Webster Berry The first post office in Berryton was established in May 1888.{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:SN |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009123205/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ASN |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}

In 1912 the town was described as, "a little village of Shawnee county, is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 9 miles southeast of the city of Topeka. It has a money order postoffice with one rural delivery route, and is a trading center for the neighborhood in which it is located. The population in 1910 was 75."{{cite book|author=Frank Wilson Blackmar|title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. ... with a Supplementary Volume Devoted to Selected Personal History and Reminiscence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o8X5krq3fP8C|year=1912|publisher=Standard publishing Company|isbn=978-0-7222-4905-5|page=176}}

It currently has a post office, an elementary school, an event center, and two churches.

Demographics

Berryton is part of the Topeka, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Education

The community is served by Shawnee Heights USD 450 public school district. The Shawnee Heights High School mascot is Thunderbirds.{{cite web | title = Shawnee Heights USD #450| publisher = USD 450| url = http://www.usd450.net/| accessdate = 6 January 2017}}

Berryton High School was closed through school unification. The Berryton Buffaloes{{cite web | title = Berryton High School| publisher = classmates| url = http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/school/Berryton-High-School/49656?cityId=21452| accessdate = 10 January 2017}} won the Kansas State High School class B baseball championship in 1951.{{cite web | title = Baseball | publisher = KSHSAA | url = http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Baseball/History.cfm | accessdate = 6 January 2017 | archive-date = 7 January 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171534/http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Baseball/History.cfm | url-status = dead }}

References

External links

Shawnee County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/shawnee.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT

Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas

Category:Unincorporated communities in Shawnee County, Kansas

Category:Topeka metropolitan area, Kansas