Stuttgart, Kansas
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Stuttgart, Kansas | |
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Coordinates: 39°47′58″N 99°27′19″W / 39.79944°N 99.45528°W[1] | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas |
County | Phillips |
Founded | 1888 |
Elevation | 1,991 ft (607 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 785 |
FIPS code | 20-68750 [1] |
GNIS ID | 471923 [1] |
Stuttgart is an unincorporated community in Phillips County, Kansas, United States.[1] It lies in northern Kansas at U.S. Route 36 between Prairie View and Phillipsburg.
History
It was established by settlers in the early 1870s and grew to have two Lutheran 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 for until it closed in 1986.[2]
Today there is yet another Lutheran church, a grain silo, a garage and a gas station with service, as well as a photo studio.
References
- ^ a b c d e Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Stuttgart, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.
- ^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
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