Woodsdale, Kansas

Woodsdale, Kansas
Ghost town
Woodsdale, Kansas

Location within the state of Kansas

Coordinates: 37°16′21″N 101°18′34″W / 37.27250°N 101.30944°W / 37.27250; -101.30944Coordinates: 37°16′21″N 101°18′34″W / 37.27250°N 101.30944°W / 37.27250; -101.30944
Country United States
State Kansas
County Stevens
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)

Woodsdale is a ghost town in Stevens County, Kansas, United States. It was involved in a county seat war with Hugoton.

History

Woodsdale was laid out in 1886 near the geographical center of the county, with the hope of locating the county seat there.[1]

Samuel Newitt Wood and I. C. Price developed the town and it was named for Col. Wood. Its post office was established November 11, 1886,[2] and the town incorporated April 11. 1887. Following the bloody county seat contest in which the governor had to send in two National Guard companies, and which Woodsdale lost to Hugoton, Woodsdale declined. The post office closed March 31, 1915,[2] and there are now no traces of the town remaining. It was located two miles east of Hugoton and six miles north at the intersections of sections 11, 12, 13, & 14.

Notable people

See also

Plat of Woodsdale, Kansas, c. 1887

References

  1. ↑ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. p. 934.
  2. 1 2 "Post Offices in Stevens County Kansas, 1828-1961". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 2008-05-19.

Further reading

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