Beulah 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
Crawford County, Kansas
Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Girard, and its most populous city is Pittsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. The county was named in honor of Samuel Crawford, the ...
, United States.
History
Beulah was founded in 1874 by a colony of Methodists. The Methodist
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
was completed in 1881. A post office was opened in Beulah on December 31, 1874, and remained in operation until it was discontinued on March 15, 1955.
Beulah was a station on the
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway.
Notable people
College football
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coach and innovator
Homer Woodson Hargiss went to Beulah High School before it closed.
References
Further reading
External links
* Crawford County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Unincorporated communities in Crawford County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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