Belvidere is an
unincorporated community in
Kiowa County, Kansas, United States,
and located along the
Medicine Lodge River
The Medicine Lodge River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 tributary of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma in ...
.
History
Belvidere was a shipping point on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
A post office named Glick operated from 1883 until 1890. The Glick post office was renamed Belvidere on April 26, 1890, remained in operation until it was discontinued on November 23, 1996.
Nearby are the Roth Petroglyph Site and the Star Petroglyph Site. Both are on the
National Register of Historic Places.
In the mid-2000s, Belvidere become the home of a
NOAA Weather Radio
NOAA Weather Radio NWR; also known as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards is an automated 24-hour network of VHF FM weather radio stations in the United States (U.S.) that broadcast weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Serv ...
transmitter, WNG534, operated by the
National Weather Service Forecast Office in nearby
Dodge City.
References
Further reading
External links
* Kiowa County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Unincorporated communities in Kiowa County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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