Rice, Kansas

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

{{About|the community in northern Kansas|the county in central Kansas|Rice County, Kansas}}

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Rice is an unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas, United States.

History

In the 19th century, Rice was a station on the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, but the town's proximity to the larger trading center of Concordia inhibited its growth.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA887 | title=Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas: Biographies of Representative Citizens. Illustrated with Portraits of Prominent People, Cuts of Homes, Stock, Etc. | publisher=Wilson, Humphrey & Company | author=Hollibaugh, E. F. | year=1903 | pages=887}}

A post office was opened in Rice in 1878, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1980.{{cite web | url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:CD | title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 | publisher=Kansas Historical Society | accessdate=6 June 2014}}

Education

The community is served by Concordia USD 333 public school district.

Notable people

  • Ross Doyen, farmer, rancher, and Kansas state legislator, was born near Rice.[http://www.kshs.org/archives/41411 Ross O. Doyen papers-biographical sketch]

References

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Further reading

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