Bayard is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Osage Township,
Allen County, Kansas
Allen County is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Iola. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,526. The county was named for William Allen, a U.S. Senato ...
, 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 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
Iola Iola or IOLA may refer to:
Places in the United States
*Iola, Colorado, a ghost town
*Iola, Florida, an unincorporated community
*Iola, Illinois, a village
*Iola, Kansas, a city
*Iola, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
*Iola, Texas, a city
*I ...
(the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
). Bayard lies less than a mile east of
U.S. Route 59
U.S. Route 59 (US 59) is a north–south U.S. highway (though it was signed east–west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the U.S. Highway System, US 59 is now a border-to-border route, part of the NAFTA Corridor Highway System. It par ...
(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
Moran may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land
* Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land
* Moran Glacier, Alexander Island
Asia
* Moran Town, Assam, India
* Moran, Israel, a kibbutz
* Moran Hill, North Korea
* Moran Station, a s ...
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