Farmer City is a
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in
Wichita County,
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
, United States.
History
It was hoped that it would become the county seat — a compromise between the fighting towns of
Leoti and
Coronado Coronado may refer to:
People
* Coronado (surname) Coronado is a Spanish surname derived from the village of Cornado, near A Coruña, Galicia.
People with the name
* Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510–1554), Spanish explorer often referred t ...
. Soon after Leoti won the fight, Farmer City and most of Coronado vanished.
References
Further reading
External links
* Wichita County Maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Former populated places in Wichita County, Kansas
Former populated places in Kansas
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