Bayard is an
unincorporated community
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in
Allen County, Kansas
Allen County (county code AL) is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is 504 square miles, or 322,560 acres in size. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,526. Its county seat and most populous city ...
, United States.
History
In 1910, Bayard was a station on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad with a money order postoffice with one rural route, an express office, and some mercantile interests. It was a shipping point for the surrounding agricultural district. The population that year was reported as 50.
A post office was opened in Front (an extinct town) in June 1886, but it was moved to Bayard in August 1887 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in April 1943.
Geography
Bayard is located at (37.9936443, -95.1630313),
in Section 36, Township 23 south, Range 20 east and Section 1, Township 24 south, Range 20 east. It is situated along the northern bank of a minor creek which empties into the
South Fork Little Osage River. Contained entirely within Osage Township in
Allen County, it is about 15 miles northeast of
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* ''Iola'', the ''nom de plume'' of African-American writer Ida B. Wells
* ''Iola'' (steamboat 1885), a steamboat active on Puget Sound from 1885 to 1915
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(the
county seat
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). Bayard lies less than a mile east of
U.S. Route 59
U.S. Route 59 (US 59) is a north–south United States highway (though it was signed east–west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the U.S. numbered route system, US 59 is now a border-to-border route, part of the NAFTA Corridor Highway Sy ...
(a north–south route) where Texas Road crosses a
Union Pacific
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railroad. The tiny incorporated city of
Mildred is just 2 miles to the north along US-59, and the larger city of
Moran is more than 5 miles to the south.
References
Further reading
External links
* Allen County maps
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Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Allen County, Kansas
1887 establishments in Kansas
Populated places established in 1887