Stuttgart is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Phillips County, Kansas
Phillips County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Phillipsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,981. The county was named after William Phillips, a free-state abolition ...
, United States.
As of the
2020 census, the population was 44.
It lies in northern Kansas at
U.S. Route 36
U.S. Route 36 (US 36) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that travels approximately from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio. The highway's western terminus is at Deer Ridge Junction, an inte ...
between
Prairie View and
Phillipsburg.
History
Stuttgart was established by settlers in the early 1870s and grew to have two
Lutheran
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...
churches, a public school, hotel, cafe, bank, cinema, hairdresser, wood yard, grocer's shop, railway depot, grain silo, repair shop, blacksmith, dairy, and more. It was founded on February 6, 1888. A post office was opened in Stuttgart in 1888, and remained in operation until it closed in 1986.
Today there is a Lutheran church, grain elevator, garage, and a gas station.
Demographics
References
Further reading
External links
German site about StuttgartPhillips County Kansas* Phillips County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Census-designated places in Phillips County, Kansas
Populated places established in 1888
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