Mitchell, Kansas
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Rice County, Kansas}}
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Mitchell is an unincorporated community in Rice County, Kansas, United States. Located about {{convert|6|mi|km}} east-northeast of the city of Lyons,DeLorme. Kansas Atlas & Gazetteer. 4th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2009, p. 47. {{ISBN|0-89933-342-7}}. it lies along local roads a fraction of a mile (less than 1 km) north of U.S. Route 56.
History
File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Rice County.png
For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, Rice County was founded.
In 1878, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and parties from Marion and McPherson counties chartered the Marion and McPherson Railway Company.Marion County Kansas : Past and Present; Sondra Van Meter; MB Publishing House; LCCN 72-92041; 344 pages; 1972. In 1879, a branch line was built from Florence to McPherson, in 1880 it was extended to Lyons, in 1881 it was extended to Ellinwood.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIwpAAAAYAAJ Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending December 1, 1886 in State of Kansas; Kansas Publishing House; 1886.] The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The line from Florence to Marion, was abandoned in 1968.[http://www.abandonedrails.com/Marion_to_Florence Railway Abandonment 1968] In 1992, the line from Marion to McPherson was sold to Central Kansas Railway. In 1993, after heavy flood damage, the line from Marion to McPherson was abandoned. The original branch line connected Florence, Marion, Canada, Hillsboro, Lehigh, Canton, Galva, McPherson, Conway, Windom, Little River, Mitchell, Lyons, Chase and Ellinwood.
A post office was opened in Mitchell in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1953.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:RC |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=22 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009133151/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ARC |archivedate=9 October 2013 }}
Education
The community is served by Lyons USD 405 public school district.
Notable people
- Leo B. Bozell - Advertising executive, born in Mitchell.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3lQAQAAIAAJ&q=Clarinda+Wallis+Bozell|title=Who's who in Finance and Industry|work=google.ca|year=1944}}
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Rice County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Rice County, Kansas}}
External links
- Rice County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/rice.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic] - KDOT
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas