Stippville, Kansas
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Stippville is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States.{{cite gnis2|484450|Stippville, Kansas}} It is located four miles north of Columbus.
History
Cherokee County opened for settlement in 1866.{{Cite web|title=KGS--Special Report on Coal (1898)--Geography|url=http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/Vol3/50_part2.html|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.kgs.ku.edu}} Coal was found at numerous places across the county and soon, it became the leading coal producing county for the state of Kansas for many years. The Columbus Coal Company had a shaft located at Stippville, on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway. Stippville was a mining town that was developed in the late nineteenth-century. The town had a population of 200 by 1910. The original post office moved from Newcastle to Stippville in the 1880s.{{cite web | url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:2/county:CK/sort:date_established/direction:asc | title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2 | publisher=Kansas Historical Society | accessdate=2 August 2014}}
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Cherokee County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Cherokee County, Kansas}}
External links
- Cherokee County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/cherokee.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Kansas
Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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