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.

Vilas, a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. in Wilson county, is located in Colfax township near the east line of the county, 16 miles northeast of Fredonia, the county seat. The town was started after the building of the railroad in 1886. It is on the border of a splendid gas field, the strongest well in the county being located 3 miles northeast. It has an express office and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 58.

Page 846 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.