Stippville 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
Cherokee County, Kansas
Cherokee County is a U.S. county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Columbus, and its most populous city is Baxter Springs. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 19,362. The county was named for the Cherokee tri ...
, United States.
It is located four miles north of
Columbus
Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "''Colombo''". It most commonly refers to:
* Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio
* Columbus, Georgia, a city i ...
.
History
Cherokee County opened for settlement in 1866.
Coal was found at numerous places across the county and soon, it became the leading coal producing county for the state of Kansas for many years. The Columbus Coal Company had a shaft located at Stippville, on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway.
Stippville was a mining town that was developed in the late nineteenth-century. The town had a population of 200 by 1910. The original post office moved from Newcastle to Stippville in the 1880s.
References
Further reading
External links
* Cherokee County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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