Monmouth, Kansas
Unincorporated community
KDOT map of Crawford County (legend)
KDOT map of Crawford County (legend)
Monmouth is located in Kansas
Monmouth
Monmouth
Monmouth is located in the United States
Monmouth
Monmouth
Coordinates: 37°21′47″N 94°56′13″W / 37.36306°N 94.93694°W / 37.36306; -94.93694[1]
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
CountyCrawford
Founded1866
Platted1866
Named forMonmouth, Illinois
Elevation
[1]
879 ft (268 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code620
FIPS code20-47675
GNIS ID469622[1]

Monmouth is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States.[1]

History

Monmouth was laid out in 1866. It may be the oldest town in Crawford County.[2] Monmouth was named after Monmouth, Illinois.[3]

The first post office in Monmouth was established in July 1866.[4]

Mounmouth experienced growth in 1879 when a narrow-gauge railroad, the Memphis, Kansas & Colorado Railroad was first extended to that point.[3] 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 ran passenger and freight trains over the line during the earl half 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. 1 2 3 4 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Monmouth, Kansas
  2. ↑ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 299.
  3. 1 2 A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County, Kansas. The Lewis Publishing Company. 1905. pp. 31.
  4. ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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