LeLoup, Kansas
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|subdivision_name2 = Franklin
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|established_title = Founded
|established_date = 1870
|established_title1 = Platted
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|named_for = Wolf
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|elevation_ft = 955
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|timezone = CST
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|area_code = 785
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|blank1_info = 479371 {{cite gnis2|479371|LeLoup, Kansas}}
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LeLoup is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. It is located one and one-half miles north of Interstate 35 on Tennessee Road, 11 miles northeast of Ottawa and seven miles southwest of Wellsville.
History
LeLoup was founded in 1870 after the Santa Fe Railroad laid tracks through the area. The community was originally named Ferguson after Robert Ferguson, the original owner of the town site.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n127 137]}} The community was renamed LeLoup after a French traveler got off at Ferguson and mistook a coyote for a wolf and began shouting "le loup", then the community voted to change the name to LeLoup.
LeLoup had a post office from September 1870 until 1954; the name of the post office was changed from Ferguson in 1879.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:FR |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=10 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009130410/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3AFR |archivedate= 9 October 2013 }}
Gallery
File:LeLoup Building.JPG|An old school in LeLoup (2008)
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Franklin County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Franklin County, Kansas}}
- Fitzgerald, Daniel. Ghost Towns of Kansas 6. 2009.
External links
- Franklin County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/franklin.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Category:Unincorporated communities in Franklin County, Kansas