Early County Post Offices

This article taken from a pamphlet (#2 in a series of 9 pamphlets)
belonging to the TREGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Official Name/County	Established	Discontinued	First Postmaster
Banner / Trego	Dec. 8, 1879	Sep. 30, 1918	Edwin L. Drake
Bosna / Trego	May 24, 1880	Aug. 15, 1921	Frank W. Zeman
Buckeye / Trego	Feb. 23, 1886	Jul. 23, 1886	Thos. W. Miller
*Collyer / Trego	May 3, 1878		Rufus G. Kessler
Coyote / Ellis	Jan. 28, 1668	Jun.12, 1868	Edgar J. Warner
Cyrus / from Ness to Trego	Mar. 9, 1880	Mar.10, 1889	Jasper Rogers
Forrester / Ness	Apr. 3, 1879	Aug. 31, 1894	unknown.
Gibson / Trego	Dec. 30, 1880	Aug. 15, 1893	Timothy Armstrong
Kristof (recinded) / Trego	Jan. 22, 1904	Mar. 9, 1904	Frank Bordowsky
Mendota / from Ellis to Trego	Feb. 6, 1863	Nov. 30, 1909	From Halton late in Trego Co.
Ogallah / Trego	Jan. 27, 1879		William D. Kelly
Park's Fort / Trego (Changed to Trego)	Dec. 28, 1871 May 28 1874	Nov. 20, 1672 Nov. 20 1874	William D. Baldwin
Schreader / Trego	Oct. 18, 1878	Oct. 31, 1881	John Wagner
Smytheville / Trego	Mar. 31, 1879	Sept. 24, 1879	Mrs. Hannah Sawtell
Stockrange / Ellis	Aug. 13, 1883	May 31, 1895	Wm. H. Meserve
Stockrange / Trego	Feb. 2, 1900	Feb. 29, 1908	Wm. P. Harmon
Trego / Trego (Moved to Wa Keeney)	Nov. 20, 1874	Feb. 6, 1878
Trego / Trego	Apr. 5, 1860	Apr. 13, 1881	John C. Henry
Trego / Trego	Mar. 22, 1900	Dec. 15, 1900
Tregola / Trego	Oct. 30, 1891	Jun. 30, 1893	John C. Henry
Valley / Trego	Jun. 3, 1907	Jan. 15, 1917	John W. Rauch
Voda / Trego	Mar. 18, 1904	Jun. 15, 1907	Frank Bordowsky
Voda / Trego	Sept 10, 1912	Dec.15, 1913
Wa Keeney / Trego	Feb. 6, 1878	Apr. 5, 1897	Richard 0. Evans
Wa Keeney / Trego	Apr. 5, 1897	Dec. 1, 1952	Arthur J. Davis
*WaKeeney (Spelling changed)	Dec. 1, 1962
Wilcox / Trego	Apr. 30, 1879	May 15, 1896	William H. Willcox

*Denotes Post office's still operating. No branch offices are listed above, some offices were known locally by other names. Sometimes first appointees did not actually serve as postmasters, some declined, others were found unqualified, while in some instances the office was turned over to an acting postmaster. The above information from History of Kansas Post offices by Robert W. Baughman.

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