Kimball 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
Neosho County, Kansas
Neosho County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Erie. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 15,904. The county was named for the Neosho River, which passes through the county.
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, United States.
The community is located next to a railroad between the cities of
Erie
Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in Pennsylvania and the most populous in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 ...
and
Stark.
History
Kimball, originally spelled Kimbal, was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1888.
The first post office in Kimbal was established in May 1888. The name was officially changed to Kimball (with two Ls) in 1950, and the post office closed in 1956.
The
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad passed through Kimball and a passenger depot previously existed in the community.
References
Further reading
External links
* Neosho County maps
CurrentHistoric
, KDOT
Unincorporated communities in Neosho County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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