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'''Hogback''' or '''Hog Back''', originally '''Hog Back Siding''', is a location in western [[Ellis County, Kansas]],<ref name="GNIS"/> {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of [[Ellis, Kansas]].
'''Hogback''' or '''Hog Back''', originally '''Hog Back Siding''', is a location in western [[Ellis County, Kansas]],<ref name="GNIS"/> {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of [[Ellis, Kansas]].


==Name==
The name was given by the [[UPRR]] to a new [[Kansas Pacific Railway]] siding constructed at the location in 1907. The name was reused from the 1870s Hog Back Station siding another {{convert|3|mi|km}} east. The earlier, scarcely-used siding had become redundant when a siding for the new [[Yocemento, Kansas|Yocemento]] factory and town was installed just a half mile to the east of the first siding.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper= The Hays Free Press |location=[[Hays, Kansas]] |date= February 2, 1907 |access-date= 2018-11-04 |title= Normal Notes |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20031330/hog_back_ellis_county/ | via=[[Newspapers.com]] | url-access=registration | quote= The Railroad surveyors were busy this week setting the stakes for the new switches at Hogback and {{sic|Yosemento}}.}}</ref>
The name "Hogback"<ref name="Captured">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/93432346/ | date=June 4, 1894 | newspaper=Salina Daily Republican | title=An army captured | location=[[Salina, Kansas]] | page=4 | via=[[Newspapers.com]] | url-access=registration | access-date=January 28, 2024}}</ref> comes from the topographic resemblance to a hog's back of the ridge immediately to the south of this location.<ref name= "RoadsideKS" >{{cite book |author1= Rex C. Buchanan |author2= James R. McCauley |title= Roadside Kansas |publisher= University Press of Kansas ([[Kansas Geological Survey]]) |year= 1987 |isbn= 978-0-7006-0322-0 |pages= 96–102 |quote= [Between Yocemento [mile 153.0] and Ellis [mile 145.6]; at Interstate 70 Mile Marker 150.0:] A mile south of the highway is a railroad siding named Hogback, which probably got its name from a sharp bluff formed by an outcrop of [[Fort Hays Limestone Member|Fort Hays Limestone]] along the [[Big Creek (Kansas)|Big Creek]] valley. [This source goes on to disambiguate this particular location from structurally similar [[Mount Oread]].]}} </ref> The name Hogback was given by the [[UPRR]] to a new [[Kansas Pacific Railway]] siding constructed at the location in 1907. The name was reused from the 1870s Hog Back Station siding another {{convert|3|mi|km}} east. The earlier, scarcely-used siding had become redundant when a siding for the new [[Yocemento, Kansas|Yocemento]] factory and town was installed one half mile to the east of the first siding.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper= The Hays Free Press |location=[[Hays, Kansas]] |date= February 2, 1907 |access-date= 2018-11-04 |title= Normal Notes |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20031330/hog_back_ellis_county/ | via=[[Newspapers.com]] | url-access=registration | quote= The Railroad surveyors were busy this week setting the stakes for the new switches at Hogback and {{sic|Yosemento}}.}}</ref>

The name "Hogback" comes from the topographic resemblance to a hog's back of the ridge immediately to the south of this location.<ref name= "RoadsideKS" >{{cite book |author1= Rex C. Buchanan |author2= James R. McCauley |title= Roadside Kansas |publisher= University Press of Kansas ([[Kansas Geological Survey]]) |year= 1987 |isbn= 978-0-7006-0322-0 |pages= 96–102 |quote= [Between Yocemento [mile 153.0] and Ellis [mile 145.6]; at Interstate 70 Mile Marker 150.0:] A mile south of the highway is a railroad siding named Hogback, which probably got its name from a sharp bluff formed by an outcrop of [[Fort Hays Limestone Member|Fort Hays Limestone]] along the [[Big Creek (Kansas)|Big Creek]] valley. [This source goes on to disambiguate this particular location from structurally similar [[Mount Oread]].]}} </ref>


==History==
The new Hog Back Siding was located at the farms settled in 1878 by Kepple Disney and his children.<ref name= Atlas1922 >{{cite book|publisher= Geo. A. Ogle & Co. |title= Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas |year= 1922 |access-date = 2018-11-30 |url= https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223993/page/29 |location= Chicago }} [Thomas Disney was Kepple Disney's brother. North of the siding is the Beaver Bank school where some of the Disneys taught.]</ref> These are the grandfather, aunts, and uncles of [[Walt Disney]]. From there, Walt's father, [[Elias Disney]] left for Florida in the 1880s. The Disneys frequented Ellis while that community recognized that the Disneys' home was "at Hogback".<ref name= DisneyHome>{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/427127066/?terms=%22hogback%22&match=1 |newspaper= The Ellis Review-Headlight |date= 1925-05-01 |page= 6 |title= Community Notes |quote= Mrs. Thomas Disney returned to her home at Hogback. }}</ref> After Walt Disney established [[Disneyland]], the family farms there were known locally as "Disneyland, KS".<ref name= DisneyKS>{{cite news |url= https://newspapers.com/image/1314669/? |newspaper= The Hays Daily News |date= 1962-04-29 |page= 12 |title= Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come }}</ref>
The new Hog Back Siding was located at the farms settled in 1878 by Kepple Disney and his children.<ref name= Atlas1922 >{{cite book|publisher= Geo. A. Ogle & Co. |title= Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas |year= 1922 |access-date = 2018-11-30 |url= https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223993/page/29 |location= Chicago }} [Thomas Disney was Kepple Disney's brother. North of the siding is the Beaver Bank school where some of the Disneys taught.]</ref> These are the grandfather, aunts, and uncles of [[Walt Disney]]. From there, Walt's father, [[Elias Disney]] left for Florida in the 1880s. The Disneys frequented Ellis while that community recognized that the Disneys' home was "at Hogback".<ref name= DisneyHome>{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/427127066/?terms=%22hogback%22&match=1 |newspaper= The Ellis Review-Headlight |date= 1925-05-01 |page= 6 |title= Community Notes |quote= Mrs. Thomas Disney returned to her home at Hogback. }}</ref> After Walt Disney established [[Disneyland]], the family farms there were known locally as "Disneyland, KS".<ref name= DisneyKS>{{cite news |url= https://newspapers.com/image/1314669/? |newspaper= The Hays Daily News |date= 1962-04-29 |page= 12 |title= Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come }}</ref>


No town was ever established there. A cattle corral and a granary were built early.<ref name= AtHome >{{cite book |title= At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 |volume= 1 |publisher= Ellis County Historical Society |year= 1991 |pages= 65 |quote= [picture of] Harvey and Lyle Luce at the elevator their father operated at Hog Back.}}</ref> A school was established one half mile north, which was named Beaver Bank for being built on the bank of a beaver dam on [[Big Creek (Kansas)]]. By the 1950s, only a shed depot remained,<ref>{{cite web |website= Kansas Memories |url=https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=km/items/view/97349 |title= Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot, Hogback, Kansas |date= 1954-11-20 |quote= This photograph shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot and sign board in Hogback, Kansas. }}</ref> which was later removed, leaving only the big railroad sign announcing "Hogback" until the 1980s.
No town was ever established there. A cattle corral and a granary were built early.<ref name= AtHome >{{cite book |title= At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 |volume= 1 |publisher= Ellis County Historical Society |year= 1991 |pages= 65 |quote= [picture of] Harvey and Lyle Luce at the elevator their father operated at Hog Back.}}</ref> A school was established one half mile north, which was named Beaver Bank for being built on the bank of a beaver dam on [[Big Creek (Kansas)]]. By the 1950s, only a shed depot remained,<ref>{{cite web |website= Kansas Memories |url=https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=km/items/view/97349 |title= Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot, Hogback, Kansas |date= 1954-11-20 |quote= This photograph shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot and sign board in Hogback, Kansas. }}</ref> which was later removed, leaving only the big railroad sign announcing "Hogback" until the 1980s.

==Geography==
In western Ellis County, between the [[Smoky Hill River|Smoky Hill]] and [[Big Creek (Kansas)|Big Creek]] valleys arises a stone-capped ridge, from [[Ellis, Kansas|Ellis]] to within miles of [[Hays, Kansas|Hays]]. Viewed from [[Interstate 70 in Kansas|Interstate 70]] across to the valley to the north, a line of small buttes along the ridge add to the resemblance of the ridge to a [[Hogback (geology)|hog's back]], hence the settler's name for the Hogback ridge. The crest of the ridge is about {{convert|3|mi|km}} closer to Big Creek than it is to the Smoky Hill River. The south slope is broader, given to a wide area of relatively level cropland. The heights of the ridge are given to high bluffs, especially the north face that drew the attention of frontier photographers and geologists in the 19th century. The soils of the steeper upper slopes are weathered from the Blue Hills shale. This sticky gumbo soil was difficult to till and of poor quality for wheat farming,<ref>{{cite book |author= Rycroft G. Moss |title= Geology of Ness and Hodgeman Counties, Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 19 |publisher= University of Kansas Publications, State Geological Survey of Kansas |date= 1962 |url= http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Ness/04_expos.html |quote= Soils derived from the upper 200 feet of the [[Carlile Formation|Carlile shale (Blue Hills Shale member)]] are not very fertile. This part of the Carlile is a noncalcareous clay-shale which weathers into a sticky gumbo soil that is difficult to till and does not produce good crops.|page= Stratigraphy: Rocks Exposed |access-date= 2019-09-01 }}</ref> giving the ridge and its community's name a reputation for uselessness.<ref>{{cite book|title= German-Russian settlements in Ellis County, Kansas |author= Francis S. Laing |publisher= [[Kansas Historical Society|Kansas State Historical Society]] |date= 1910 |access-date= 2018-11-04 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sPFYAAAAMAAJ |quote= [1875] The first land shown was near Hog Back, but this pleased so little that the men determined to return to Russia. [they eventually settled in Herzog/Victoria] }}</ref><ref name= longneglected >{{cite journal |journal= Free Press |location= Hays, Kansas |date= May 5, 1908 |page= 1 |title= Yocemento Cement Plant. |url= http://contentcat.fhsu.edu/digital/collection/p15732coll8/id/27852/ |access-date = 2018-11-30 |quote= When last year president I. M. Yost and treasurer J. H. Ward talked "Cement Works at Hog Back," lots of our people scoffed. ..., out there at those '''long neglected hills of old "Hog Back"''' }}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 07:29, 28 January 2024

Hog Back, Kansas
Location
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Hog Back is located in Kansas
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Coordinates: 38°55′13″N 99°28′51″W / 38.92028°N 99.48083°W / 38.92028; -99.48083[1]
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
CountyEllis
Elevation
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2,077 ft (633 m)
Population
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Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code785
FIPS code20-32500 [1]
GNIS ID484722 [1]

Hogback or Hog Back, originally Hog Back Siding, is a location in western Ellis County, Kansas,[1] 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Ellis, Kansas.

Name

The name "Hogback"[2] comes from the topographic resemblance to a hog's back of the ridge immediately to the south of this location.[3] The name Hogback was given by the UPRR to a new Kansas Pacific Railway siding constructed at the location in 1907. The name was reused from the 1870s Hog Back Station siding another 3 miles (4.8 km) east. The earlier, scarcely-used siding had become redundant when a siding for the new Yocemento factory and town was installed one half mile to the east of the first siding.[4]

History

The new Hog Back Siding was located at the farms settled in 1878 by Kepple Disney and his children.[5] These are the grandfather, aunts, and uncles of Walt Disney. From there, Walt's father, Elias Disney left for Florida in the 1880s. The Disneys frequented Ellis while that community recognized that the Disneys' home was "at Hogback".[6] After Walt Disney established Disneyland, the family farms there were known locally as "Disneyland, KS".[7]

No town was ever established there. A cattle corral and a granary were built early.[8] A school was established one half mile north, which was named Beaver Bank for being built on the bank of a beaver dam on Big Creek (Kansas). By the 1950s, only a shed depot remained,[9] which was later removed, leaving only the big railroad sign announcing "Hogback" until the 1980s.

Geography

In western Ellis County, between the Smoky Hill and Big Creek valleys arises a stone-capped ridge, from Ellis to within miles of Hays. Viewed from Interstate 70 across to the valley to the north, a line of small buttes along the ridge add to the resemblance of the ridge to a hog's back, hence the settler's name for the Hogback ridge. The crest of the ridge is about 3 miles (4.8 km) closer to Big Creek than it is to the Smoky Hill River. The south slope is broader, given to a wide area of relatively level cropland. The heights of the ridge are given to high bluffs, especially the north face that drew the attention of frontier photographers and geologists in the 19th century. The soils of the steeper upper slopes are weathered from the Blue Hills shale. This sticky gumbo soil was difficult to till and of poor quality for wheat farming,[10] giving the ridge and its community's name a reputation for uselessness.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Hog Back, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  2. ^ "An army captured". Salina Daily Republican. Salina, Kansas. June 4, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Rex C. Buchanan; James R. McCauley (1987). Roadside Kansas. University Press of Kansas (Kansas Geological Survey). pp. 96–102. ISBN 978-0-7006-0322-0. [Between Yocemento [mile 153.0] and Ellis [mile 145.6]; at Interstate 70 Mile Marker 150.0:] A mile south of the highway is a railroad siding named Hogback, which probably got its name from a sharp bluff formed by an outcrop of Fort Hays Limestone along the Big Creek valley. [This source goes on to disambiguate this particular location from structurally similar Mount Oread.]
  4. ^ "Normal Notes". The Hays Free Press. Hays, Kansas. February 2, 1907. Retrieved 2018-11-04 – via Newspapers.com. The Railroad surveyors were busy this week setting the stakes for the new switches at Hogback and Yosemento [sic].
  5. ^ Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. 1922. Retrieved 2018-11-30. [Thomas Disney was Kepple Disney's brother. North of the siding is the Beaver Bank school where some of the Disneys taught.]
  6. ^ "Community Notes". The Ellis Review-Headlight. 1925-05-01. p. 6. Mrs. Thomas Disney returned to her home at Hogback.
  7. ^ "Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come". The Hays Daily News. 1962-04-29. p. 12.
  8. ^ At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992. Vol. 1. Ellis County Historical Society. 1991. p. 65. [picture of] Harvey and Lyle Luce at the elevator their father operated at Hog Back.
  9. ^ "Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot, Hogback, Kansas". Kansas Memories. 1954-11-20. This photograph shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot and sign board in Hogback, Kansas.
  10. ^ Rycroft G. Moss (1962). Geology of Ness and Hodgeman Counties, Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 19. University of Kansas Publications, State Geological Survey of Kansas. p. Stratigraphy: Rocks Exposed. Retrieved 2019-09-01. Soils derived from the upper 200 feet of the Carlile shale (Blue Hills Shale member) are not very fertile. This part of the Carlile is a noncalcareous clay-shale which weathers into a sticky gumbo soil that is difficult to till and does not produce good crops.
  11. ^ Francis S. Laing (1910). German-Russian settlements in Ellis County, Kansas. Kansas State Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-11-04. [1875] The first land shown was near Hog Back, but this pleased so little that the men determined to return to Russia. [they eventually settled in Herzog/Victoria]
  12. ^ "Yocemento Cement Plant". Free Press. Hays, Kansas: 1. May 5, 1908. Retrieved 2018-11-30. When last year president I. M. Yost and treasurer J. H. Ward talked "Cement Works at Hog Back," lots of our people scoffed. ..., out there at those long neglected hills of old "Hog Back"
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