Places - Pawnee County KSGenWeb genealogy, family history

2010 Pawnee County
Kansas Dept. of Transportation

Townships

Ash Valley
Brown’s Grove
Conkling
Garfield

Populated Places

Ash Valley, a rural hamlet of Pawnee county, is in the township of the same name, in Ash creek valley, about 12 miles northwest of Larned, the county seat, with which it is connected by stage, and from which it receives mail. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 108.

Burdett, a town in Browns Grove township, Pawnee county, is a station on the division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. that runs from Larned to Jetmore 24 miles west of Larned. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph and express offices, a grain elevator, hotel, some good mercantile houses, and is the chief shipping and supply point in the western part of the county. The population in 1910 was 300. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, pages 252-253.

Frizell, a money order post-village of Pawnee county, is a station on the Larned & Jetmore division of the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe R. R. 7 miles west of Larned. It has a general store and does some shipping. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 700.

Garfield, one of the principal towns of Pawnee county, is situated on the Arkansas river and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 11 miles southwest of Larned, the county seat. It is a shipping point of considerable importance, has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph, express and telephone accommodations, a flour mill, 4 grain elevators, a hotel, a public library, graded and high schools, Congregational, Methodist and Swedish Lutheran churches, and a number of well stocked mercantile establishments. It was incorporated in 1910 and the same year reported a population of 333. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 710.

Harmony, a discontinued postoffice of Pawnee county, is situated near the northwest corner of the county, about 18 miles from Larned, the county seat. Mail is received through the office at Nekoma, and Rozel is the nearest shipping point. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 808.

Larned, the county seat of Pawnee county, is located northeast of the center of the county on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific railroads, and at the confluence of the Pawnee and the Arkansas rivers. Its altitude is 2,002 feet. It is in the wheat belt of the state and is the trading and shipping point for a large agricultural and stock raising section. There are several blocks of substantial business houses, 2 newspapers (the Tiller and Toiler and the Chronoscope), 3 banks with a combined capital of $125,000 and deposits amounting to over $850,000, a fine city hall, an opera house, a hospital, a city park, waterworks, electricity for lighting and power, a fire department, a sewer system, all the leading church denominations, a creamery, 2 flour mills, a foundry, several grain elevators, etc. The city is supplied with telegraph and express offices and has an international money order postoffice with four rural routes. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 2,911, a gain of 1,328 since 1900.

Larned was founded in 1873. A newspaper called the Larned Press was established by W. C. Tompkinson in that year. A number of new additions in the next five years marked the growth of the town. In less than ten years it was an incorporated city of the third class with about 50 business establishments. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 106.

Ray, a post-village in Pawnee county, is located in River township on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 8 miles east of Larned, the county seat. It has general stores, 2 grain elevators, telegraph and express offices. The population in 1910 was 60. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 551.

Rozel, a little town in Grant township, Pawnee county, is on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 17 miles west of Larned, the county seat. It has a bank, a mill, a grain elevator, a number of retail stores, telegraph and express offices; and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 200. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 610.