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Another post office with nothing there, this time in a triangular fields by a stream. Longer lived than most we've looked at, but it still didn't make it into the 20th century. Searching is surprisingly bad, but I couldn't find anything I could tie to this spot. Mangoe ( talk) 03:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
I've already fixed up Ellis County, Kansas#Communities with what can actually be supported from Blackmar's Cyclopedia and the Board of Agriculture reports as genuine towns, hamlets, and post offices. Only Rome in the list of ghost towns there has actual support from any of these sources for being a ghost town, and now has one of the sources that does. All other purported ghost towns in that article are not supported from them, in particular not from the Cyclopedia, which goes down to detail at the hamlet level.
Connelley's 1928 History of Kansas does not have this.
Gannett's 1898 gazetteer says "post village", but given the lack of support from anywhere else for the "village" part, I'm inclined to think that this is yet another of Gannett's errors.
And the GHIS record that gave us this? "(historical)" in the name and "locale" (not "ppl") as the original feature class.
This is yet more padded with boilerplate Kansas crap that is inventing a ghost town and was never supported in that in the first place by its original supposed unreliable source.
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The result was delete. ✗ plicit 10:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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Another post office with nothing there, this time in a triangular fields by a stream. Longer lived than most we've looked at, but it still didn't make it into the 20th century. Searching is surprisingly bad, but I couldn't find anything I could tie to this spot. Mangoe ( talk) 03:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
I've already fixed up Ellis County, Kansas#Communities with what can actually be supported from Blackmar's Cyclopedia and the Board of Agriculture reports as genuine towns, hamlets, and post offices. Only Rome in the list of ghost towns there has actual support from any of these sources for being a ghost town, and now has one of the sources that does. All other purported ghost towns in that article are not supported from them, in particular not from the Cyclopedia, which goes down to detail at the hamlet level.
Connelley's 1928 History of Kansas does not have this.
Gannett's 1898 gazetteer says "post village", but given the lack of support from anywhere else for the "village" part, I'm inclined to think that this is yet another of Gannett's errors.
And the GHIS record that gave us this? "(historical)" in the name and "locale" (not "ppl") as the original feature class.
This is yet more padded with boilerplate Kansas crap that is inventing a ghost town and was never supported in that in the first place by its original supposed unreliable source.
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