Stippville, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Kansas

Stippville is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States.^[1] It is located 4 miles north of Columbus.

History

Cherokee County opened for settlement in 1866.^[2] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

References

^ "Stippville, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
^ ^a ^b "KGS--Special Report on Coal (1898)--Geography". www.kgs.ku.edu. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

External links

Cherokee County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Municipalities and communities of Cherokee County, Kansas, United States

County seat: Columbus

Cities

Baxter Springs
Columbus
Galena
Roseland
Scammon
Weir
West Mineral

Unincorporated
communities

Carona
Cokedale
Crestline†
Empire City
Faulkner
Hallowell†
Keelville
Kniveton‡
Lawton
Lowell†
Melrose
Neutral
Riverton†
Sherman
Sherwin
Skidmore
Stippville
Turck

Ghost towns

Treece

Townships

Footnotes

†This community is designated a Census-Designated Place (CDP) by the United States Census Bureau.
‡This community also has portions in an adjacent county or counties.