Skiddy, Kansas
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{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Morris County, Kansas}}
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|subdivision_name2 = Morris
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|named_for = Francis Skiddy
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|area_code = 785
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|blank1_info = 476875 {{cite gnis2|476875|Skiddy, Kansas}}
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Skiddy is an unincorporated community in Morris County, Kansas, United States.
History
Skiddy was founded in 1870.{{cite book|title=History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof00andr|year=1883|publisher=A. T. Andreas|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof00andr/page/809 809]}} It was named after railroad magnate Francis Skiddy.{{cite web|url=http://www.legendsofkansas.com/morriscountytowns2.html|title=Towns & Places of Morris County - Page 2|publisher=Legends of Kansas|accessdate=19 July 2015}} Between March 11, 1879, and August 3, 1883, it was renamed Camden before reverting to the name Skiddy.{{cite web | url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:1/county:MR/sort:County.county_name/direction:asc | title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 | publisher=Kansas Historical Society | accessdate=June 15, 2014}}
The post office in Skiddy was discontinued in 1953. The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad served Skiddy for many years, and the grain elevator adjacent to the railroad tracks still stands today.
Education
The community is served by Rural Vista USD 481 public school district.
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Morris County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Morris County, Kansas}}
External links
- [https://lostkscommunities.omeka.net/items/show/59 Skiddy] - Lost Kansas Communities
{{Morris County, Kansas}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Morris County, Kansas