Newman, Kansas | |
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  Newman  Newman | |
| Coordinates: 39°04′50″N95°27′53″W / 39.08056°N 95.46472°W [1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Jefferson |
| Township | Kentucky |
| Founded | 1867 |
| Named for | H. L. Newman [2] |
| Elevation | 863 ft (263 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 785 |
| FIPS code | 20-50400 [1] |
| GNIS ID | 478808 [1] |
Newman is an unincorporated community in southern Jefferson County, United States. [1]
Newman was laid out in 1867. [3]
A post office was opened in Newman in 1868 and remained in operation until it was closed in 1969. [4]
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Perry is a city in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 852.
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The Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson was an extralegal and unrecognized United States territory that existed in the Pike's Peak mining region from October 24, 1859, until it yielded to the new Territory of Colorado on June 6, 1861. The Jefferson Territory, named for Founding Father and third United States president Thomas Jefferson, included land officially part of the Kansas Territory, the Nebraska Territory, the New Mexico Territory, the Utah Territory, and the Washington Territory, but the region was remote from the governments of those five territories.
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