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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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community
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|subdivision_name2 = Cloud
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|established_date = 1870s
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|timezone = CST
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|area_code = 785
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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}}
External links
- Cloud County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/cloud.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Cloud County, Kansas
Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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