Wellsford, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Kansas, United States

37°37′00″N 99°01′43″W / 37.6166851°N 99.0287147°W / 37.6166851; -99.0287147^[1]CountryUnited StatesStateKansasCountyKiowaFounded1880sIncorporated?Disincorporated1975Elevation

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2,116 ft (645 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code620FIPS code20-76575GNIS ID474264 ^[1]

Wellsford is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Kansas, United States.^[1] It is located along Highway 54.

History

Wellsford had a post office from the 1880s until 1955.^[2]

Previously, Wellsford was an incorporated city, but it disincorporated in 1975. Wellsford was incorporated in the 1910s and recorded a population of 140 in 1920. The population steadily declined thereafter, and in the last census taken while Wellsford was incorporated, in 1970, the town's population was only 9.^[3]

Wellsford was the most recent Kansas town to be disincorporated until Treece was in 2012.

Today, the townsite contains a church and a historic one-room jailhouse from the late 1800s.

Geography

Wellsford is located at 37°37′00″N 99°01′43″W / 37.6166851°N 99.0287147°W / 37.6166851; -99.0287147 (37.6166851, -99.0287147).^[1]

Notable people

Lloyd Stearman, aircraft designer and early aviation entrepreneur

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Wellsford, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
^ "1940 Census - Kansas" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 22, 2022.