Berryton 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
Shawnee County, Kansas
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, making it the third-most populous county ...
, United States.
It is located east of the
Topeka Regional Airport
Topeka Regional Airport , formerly known as Forbes Field, is a joint civil-military public airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority in Shawnee County, Kansas, seven miles south of downtown Topeka, the capital city of Kansas. ...
.
History
Berryton was laid out in 1888 and named for its two founders, George Washington Berry and his son George Webster Berry. The first post office in Berryton was established in May 1888.
In 1912 the town was described as, "a little village of Shawnee county, is a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 9 miles southeast of the city of Topeka. It has a money order postoffice with one rural delivery route, and is a trading center for the neighborhood in which it is located. The population in 1910 was 75."
It currently has a post office, an elementary school, an event center, and two churches.
Demographics
Berryton is part of the
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 cen ...
Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Education
The community is served by
Shawnee Heights USD 450
Shawnee Heights USD 450 is a Public school (government funded), public unified school district headquartered in Tecumseh, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of southeast edge of Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, Tecumseh, Kansa ...
public school district. The Shawnee Heights High School mascot is Thunderbirds.
Berryton High School was closed through school unification. The Berryton Buffaloes won the
Kansas State High School class B baseball championship in 1951.
References
Further reading
External links
* Shawnee County maps
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Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Shawnee County, Kansas
Topeka metropolitan area, Kansas