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Hackney, Kansas

Coordinates: 37°10′27″N 97°1′52″W / 37.17417°N 97.03111°W / 37.17417; -97.03111
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Hackney, Kansas
Aerial view of Hackney, including Strother Field industrial park and airport
Aerial view of Hackney, including Strother Field industrial park and airport
KDOT map of Cowley County (legend)
Hackney is located in Kansas
Hackney
Hackney
Hackney is located in the United States
Hackney
Hackney
Coordinates: 37°10′27″N 97°1′52″W / 37.17417°N 97.03111°W / 37.17417; -97.03111
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
CountyCowley
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code620

Hackney is an unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas, United States.[1]

History

The town was named after William P. Hackney, a colorful frontier lawyer and politician from Cowley County.[citation needed] Hackney was a station and shipping point on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.[2] The post office was established March 31, 1894, and discontinued February 15, 1924.[3]

An airport was built in the early 1940s and was used as a training airfield by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The airport is now called Strother Field and it is the home of Strother Field Industrial Park.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hackney, Kansas
  2. ^ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 800.
  3. ^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

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