Purcell, Kansas

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

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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|subdivision_name2 = Doniphan

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|established_title = Founded

|established_date = 1886

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|named_for = John Purcell

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|area_code = 785

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|blank_info = {{FIPS|20|57950}}

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|blank1_info = 473266 {{cite gnis2|473266|Purcell, Kansas}}

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Purcell is an unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. It is located {{convert|5|mi|km}} east of Everest, south of K-20, on highway K-137.

History

Purcell was founded about 1886.{{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/n513 523]}} John Purcell was one of the earliest settlers.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/graysdoniphancou01gray | title=Gray's Doniphan County History: A Record of the Happenings of Half a Hundred Years | publisher=Roycroft Press | author=Gray, Patrick Leopoldo | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/graysdoniphancou01gray/page/64 64]}}

A post office was opened in Purcell in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1956.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:DP |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=8 June 2014 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009130242/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:DP |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}

St. Mary's Catholic Church, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Purcell.{{NRISref|2010a}}

References

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Further reading

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