Mooney Creek, Kansas

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Mooney Creek is an unincorporated community in northeastern Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. It is named for Mooney Creek, a right-hand tributary of Big Stranger Creek. [1]

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History

The first settler was said to be a man named Thomas Mooney, who arrived there not long after the Kansas Territory was opened up for settlement in 1854. [2] The first Catholic Church in the area, Corpus Christi, was founded as a mission parish in 1857 and held services in the homes of parishioners, with the first church built in 1872. [2] The present church was built in 1907 and still stands today. [2]

Demographics

Mooney Creek is part of the Topeka, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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References

  1. Gannett, Henry (1898). A Gazetteer of Kansas. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 155.
  2. 1 2 3 "Generations Corpus Christi Parish in Mooney Creek celebrated 150 years as a parish and the 100th anniversary of the church by reflecting on its glorious past STORY BY JOE BOLLIG" (PDF).

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