Antonino is an
unincorporated community
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in
Lookout Township,
Ellis County, Kansas, United States.
History
Due to the distance from their homes to St. Francis Church in
Munjor, a group of the church's
Volga German
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Recruited as immigrants to Russia in th ...
parishioners requested a new parish and subsequently founded Antonino in 1904. They originally wanted to name the new community St. Anthony, but the
post office
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rejected that name for being too similar to that of
Anthony, Kansas. Instead, they applied for the name "Saint Antonino" after a village in
Brazil
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in which several residents had once lived. Due to postal regulations at that time, however, "Saint" was removed from the name.
Another account claims that Antonino was named for Anthony Sauer, who was said to be the community's oldest resident.
Local residents built a new church in 1905, and a local post office opened the same year.
[ The post office closed in 1984.][
]
Geography
Antonino is located at (38.7080679, -99.1656536) at an elevation of .Interstate 70
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and south-southwest of Hays, the county seat
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.
Antonino lies north of the Smoky Hill River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains
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.
Education
The community is served by Hays USD 489 public school district.
Transportation
Antonino Road, a paved county road, runs east–west through the community, connecting it to U.S. Route 183 to the east.
References
Further reading
External links
* Ellis County maps
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Unincorporated communities in Ellis County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas