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- 1 2 "Missler, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System , United States Geological Survey
- ↑ Sullivan, Frank Seymour (1916). A History of Meade County, Kansas. Crane & Company. pp. 32-33.
- ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
