Eminence, Kansas | |
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| Coordinates: 38°08′50″N100°30′37″W / 38.14722°N 100.51028°W [1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Finney |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Elevation | 2,608 ft (795 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 620 |
| GNIS ID | 485330 [1] |
Eminence is a ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States. [1]
Eminence was founded in 1887. [2] The town's early history was defined by its rivalry with Ravanna for the status of Garfield County seat. Ravanna won the election by 35 votes. Eminence immediately challenged the results, claiming a construction crew working on Ravanna's new $10,000 courthouse (nicknamed the "Great White Elephant") had illegally cast 60 votes using names of dead men who were not Ravanna residents. The Kansas Supreme Court agreed, and in 1889 the county seat was transferred to Eminence. This victory, however, was short-lived as a surveyor hired by Ravanna found that Garfield County had been illegally organized and was below the minimum size for a county defined in the Kansas Constitution, and the entire county was subsequently disincorporated and annexed by neighboring Finney County [3] .
A post office was opened in Eminence in June 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1942. [4]
Eminence is the Federal Emergency Management Agency refugee center established to take evacuees from Denver, Colorado as the event of an explosion at a train derailment and the subsequent detonation of a smuggled Russian nuclear weapon which was in the derailment wreckage in the 1999 TV movie Atomic Train at Miller's Bend, Colorado.
Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 519,572. The county seat is Brighton, and the largest city is Thornton. The county is named for Alva Adams, an early Governor of the State of Colorado in 1887–1889. Adams County is part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Kearny County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Lakin. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 3,983. The county is named in honor of Philip Kearny, a general during the American Civil War that died during the Battle of Chantilly.
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A county seat war is an American phenomenon that occurred mainly in the Old West as it was being settled and county lines determined. Incidents elsewhere, such as in Michigan, Appalachian Ohio, and West Virginia, have also been recorded. As new towns sprang up and county lines were drawn, there was intense competition for the status and tax benefits bestowed by becoming a county seat. These "wars" often involved nothing more than lining up at the ballot box, but sometimes partisans for a particular town would resort to voter fraud, intimidation, or violence.
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Grant County is a county located in southwest Kansas, in the Central United States. Its county seat and only city is Ulysses.
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| Footnotes | †This community is designated a Census-Designated Place (CDP) by the United States Census Bureau. | |
