Places

1887 Pratt County

1895 Rand McNally Atlas

1900

Kansas Dept. of Transportation

Populated Places

Byers, a rural hamlet of Meade county, receives mail by rural free delivery from Meade, the county seat, which is the most convenient railroad station. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 267.

Cairo, a village of Pratt county, is a station on the Wichita & Pratt division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 11 miles east of Pratt, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice, express office, some good general stores, a flour mill, and is a shipping point for the surrounding country. The population was 40 in 1910. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 268.

Coats, one of the principal towns of Pratt county, is located in Grant township about 12 miles southwest of Pratt, the county seat, and is a station on the Wichita & Englewood division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. It was incorporated in 1909, and in 1910 reported a population of 269. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, telephone connections, a grain elevator, a hotel, and a weekly newspaper (the Courant). Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, pages 380-381.

Croft, a village and postoffice of Springvale township, Pratt county, is a station on the Wichita & Englewood division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., about 20 miles southwest of Pratt, the county seat. It has telephone connections, a local trade, does some shipping, and in 1910 reported a population of 30. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 484.

Cullison, an incorporated town of Pratt county, is located on the line between Banner and Richland townships and is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 11 miles west of Pratt, the county seat. It has a bank, a grain elevator, a money order postoffice with two rural routes, telegraph and express offices, telephone connections, a hotel, some well stocked general stores, and is the principal shipping and supply point for the western part of the county. The population was 151 in 1910. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 486.

Iuka, an incorporated city of the third class in Pratt county, is located in the township of the same name on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 5 miles north of Pratt, the county seat. It has a bank, 2 elevators, a hotel, a number of mercantile establishments, churches and schools, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 223. The town was settled in 1877, and was at one time the county seat. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 944.

Pratt (county seat), the county seat of Pratt county, is centrally located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroads and on the Ninnescah river. It has waterworks, fire department, electric light and ice plant, paved streets, 3 banks, a flour mill, 3 grain elevators, a steam laundry, an opera house, 2 newspapers (the Republican and the Union), telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with four rural routes. It has been designated as a point for a postal savings bank. The population in 1910 was 3,302. Pratt was founded in 1884 and the next year began the long contest for county seat, in which it finally won. In 1886, when the county seat fight was at its height, the town had already gained a population of 1,000. In 1890 the population was 1,418, and in 1900 it was 1,213, which shows an increase of over 2,000 people in the last ten years, or nearly 200 per cent. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 495.

Preston, an incorporated city of the third class in Pratt county, is located in Haynesville township at the junction of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads, 12 miles northeast of Pratt, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Pilot), telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 278. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 501.

Sawyer, a little town in Pratt county, is located in Paxon and Elm townships on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., about 12 miles south of Pratt, the county seat. It has a bank, a telephone exchange, a weekly newspaper (the News), foundry and machine shop, a number of retail stores, schools, churches, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 275. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 652.

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