Monmouth, Kansas

Monmouth is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States.[2]

Monmouth, Kansas
Unincorporated community
KDOT map of Crawford County (legend)
Monmouth
Location within the state of Kansas
Monmouth
Monmouth (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°21′47″N 94°56′13″W[1]
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
CountyCrawford
Founded1860s
Platted1866
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code620

History

Monmouth was laid out in 1866. It may be the oldest town in Crawford County.[3] Monmouth was named after Monmouth, Illinois.[4]

The first post office in Monmouth was established in July 1866.[5]

Mounmouth experienced growth in 1879 when a narrow-gauge railroad, the Memphis, Kansas & Colorado Railroad was first extended to that point.[4] In 1882 the rail line was converted to standard gauge, and in 1901 the railroad came under the control of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway which rain passenger and freight trains over the line for much of the 20th century and maintained a depot at Monmouth. Passenger service ended in the late 1960s, and freight service continued into the 1980s, after Burlington Northern Railroad purchased the Frisco in 1980. The rail line was eventually abandoned in the early 1990s. The town experienced a boom in the 1920s, finding itself in the epicenter of extensive coal mining activity in Southeast Kansas. Today the town has less than ten residences. Its only remaining nonresidential structure is Monmouth Trinity Holiness Church.

References
  1. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Monmouth, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Monmouth, Kansas
  3. Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 299.
  4. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County, Kansas. The Lewis Publishing Company. 1905. pp. 31.
  5. "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2014.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)


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