Vine Creek, Kansas

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Vine Creek is a ghost town in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States. [1]

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History

Vine Creek (also known historically as Vine) had a post office from 1879 until 1932. [2]

In 1888, a rail line of the Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad opened from Manchester, Kansas in the east to Barnard in the west, a 43 mile line, with a stop at Vine Creek. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway acquired the railroad in 1901. [3] An application was filed in 1983 to abandon this "Minneapolis District" line. [4]

The 1912 cyclopedia of Kansas described Vine as a "village" on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, with "a money order postoffice and telegraph and express office. The population in 1910 was 50. The railroad name is Vine Creek." [5]

Education

Children living near the former community is served by North Ottawa County USD 239 public school district.

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References

  1. ↑ "Vine Creek, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System , United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  2. ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1898). A Gazetteer of Kansas. Govt. Print. Off. p. 23.
  4. ↑ The Minneapolis District, Abandoned Rails, Retrieved 21 February 2022
  5. ↑ Kansas, A Cyclopedia ..., Vol. II, p. 848 (1912)

Further reading

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