Coronado 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
Wichita County, Kansas
Wichita County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Leoti. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 2,152. The county was named after the Wichita tribe.
History
Early history
For many millennia, ...
, United States.
It is located a couple of miles east of Leoti.
History
Platted in 1885, Coronado was involved in one of the bloodiest
county seat fight in the history of the
American West
The Western United States (also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West) is census regions United States Census Bureau
As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the mea ...
. The shoot-out on February 27, 1887, with boosters—some would say hired gunmen—from nearby
Leoti left several people dead and wounded. Afterwards numerous famous lawmen from
Dodge City
Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. It was named after nearby Fort Dodge, which was named in honor of Grenville Dodge. The city ...
, which included Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, gathered to calm the storm that ensued after the bloody fight. A small town called
Farmer City, which was located between Coronado and Leoti, was hoped by some to become the county seat—which would end the fighting. Leoti later won the right to become the county seat and now the other two towns consist mainly of farmland.
Coronado had a post office from 1886 until 1899.
References
Further reading
External links
War in Wichita County(see bottom of page)
* Wichita County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
American frontier
Former populated places in Wichita County, Kansas
Former populated places in Kansas
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