Coronado, Kansas
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Wichita County, Kansas}}
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Coronado is an unincorporated community in Wichita County, Kansas, United States. It is located a couple of miles east of Leoti.
History
Platted in 1885, Coronado was involved in one of the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West. The shoot-out on February 27, 1887, with boosters—some would say hired gunmen—from nearby Leoti left several people dead and wounded.{{cite web|url=https://www.wichitacounty.org/things-to-do/attractions/8-wonders-of-wichita-county|title=8 Wonders of Wichita County|publisher=Wichita County|location=Wichita County, KS|accessdate=September 24, 2019|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924205245/https://www.wichitacounty.org/things-to-do/attractions/8-wonders-of-wichita-county|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://genealogytrails.com/kan/wichita/countyseat.html|title=County Seat History of Wichita County, Kansas|accessdate=September 24, 2019}} Afterwards numerous famous lawmen from Dodge City, which included Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, gathered to calm the storm that ensued after the bloody fight. A small town called Farmer City, which was located between Coronado and Leoti, was hoped by some to become the county seat—which would end the fighting. Leoti later won the right to become the county seat and now the other two towns consist mainly of farmland.
Coronado had a post office from 1886 until 1899.{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:WH |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009123249/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3AWH |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Wichita County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Wichita County, Kansas}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050901013420/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/wichita/stories.html War in Wichita County] (see bottom of page)
- Wichita County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/wichita.PDF Current], [http://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT
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Category:Former populated places in Wichita County, Kansas
Category:Former populated places in Kansas
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