Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Olcott, a hamlet in Reno county, is the terminal station on the Olcott & Iuka branch of the Missouri Pacific, and also on a main line of the same railroad. It is 30 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat, and 5 miles southeast of Turon, from which place its mail is distributed by rural delivery. It has telegraph and express offices. The population according to the census of 1910 was 53.

Page 387 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.