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Populated Places

Eminence, a village of Garfield township, Finney county, is situated on the Pawnee river, 25 miles northeast of Garden City, the county seat, and about 18 miles north of Charleston, the nearest railroad station. It has a money order postoffice with one rural route, a good local trade, and in 1910 reported a population of 92. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, pages 587-588.

Essex, a money order post-hamlet of Finney county, is located on a small tributary of the Pawnee river, 18 miles northeast of Garden City, the county seat. The population in 1910 was 28. Charleston is the nearest railroad station. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 598.

Friend, a post-hamlet of Finney county, is near the northern boundary on the line of the proposed Garden City, Gulf and Northern R. R., about 22 miles from Garden City, the county seat. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 697.

Garden City, the largest town and county seat of Finney county, is centrally located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Garden City, Gulf and Northern railroads, and on the Arkansas river. It is the commercial center for a large and prosperous irrigating district, and is in the midst of the Kansas beet sugar region. It has electricity for lighting and power, waterworks, sewer system, fire and police departments, a county high school, public library, hospital, opera house, 3 banks, 3 newspapers (the Telegram, a daily and the Imprint and Herald, weeklies). There is a beet sugar factory, erected at a cost of $1,000,000, which handles 1,000 tons of beets and turns out 200,000 pounds of refined sugar daily. There are two seed houses, which cure and market native seeds, several firms which manufacture stock tanks, pumps, and all sorts of well supplies, 2 elevators, a flour mill and a planing mill. Daily stages run to Santa Fe, Eminence and Essex, and tri-weekly stages to Terryton. The shady streets and fine lawns in the residence portion of Garden City indicate that it is well named. The business district, which covers several squares, is solidly built with structures of brick and stone. The city is supplied with telegraph and express offices, telephone accommodations, and an international money order postoffice with two rural routes. Garden City was first settled in 1884. For the first few years the growth was rapid, but, in common with other western Kansas towns, it lost in population during the period of business depression from 1889 to 1896. Since then its progress has been along more conservative lines and the improvements are consequently of a more substantial character than those of earlier years. In 1900, the first U. S. census after the city was incorporated, the population was 1,590. Ten years later the city was divided into three wards and reported a total population of 3,171, an increase of almost 100 per cent. during the decade. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, pages 708-709.

Holcomb is a little village of Finney county on the Arkansas river and is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 6 miles west of Garden City, the county seat. It has a postoffice and in 1910 reported a population of 75. It is a trading point for the neighborhood, and does some shipping. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 862.

Imperial, a country postoffice in Finney county, is located in Garfield township, 23 miles northeast of Garden City, the county seat, and 19 miles southwest of Dighton, Lane county, which is the nearest railroad station. It has tri-weekly mail. The population in 1910 was 20. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 898.

Kalvesta, a country postoffice in Finney county, is located in Garfield township, 32 miles northeast of Garden City, the county seat, and 20 miles north of Cimarron, the nearest shipping point. It has a general store and a tri-weekly stage to Dodge City, 34 miles to the southeast. The population in 1910 was 25. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 46.

Mansfield, a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. in Finney county, is located 7 miles southeast of Garden City, the county seat, whence it receives mail by rural delivery. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 215.

Pierceville, a little town in Finney county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. and the Arkansas river, 13 miles southeast of Garden City, the county seat. It has general stores, hotels, schools and churches, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 150. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 474.

Ravanna, a country postoffice in Finney county, is located on the Pawnee river, 28 miles northeast of Garden City, the county seat, and 22 miles north of Cimarron, the nearest shipping point. It has a daily stage to Garden City. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 549.