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Welcome to Stone City ...

So far, we found very little information about Stone City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Stone City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Stone City, please Contact Us.


Stone City would have been located within present day Cherokee County<2>.


The location of Stone City has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Stone City, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1900.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Stone City is 910 feet [277 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Stone City was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

If Stone City still existed, it would have been in the (620) area code.

Communities Also Named Stone City ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Stone City - they are located in Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Stone City.

Communities near Stone City ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Stone City.

  • Pittsburg
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Frontenac
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frontenac have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontenac
    • Frontenac is located in Crawford County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,392 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frontenac <5>
  • Columbus
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Girard
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Girard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
    • Girard is located in Crawford County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,656 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Girard <5>
  • Oswego
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Arma
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arma
    • Arma is located in Crawford County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,412 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arma <5>
  • Cherokee
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Weir
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weir have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weir
    • Weir is located in Cherokee County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 634 people
  • Scammon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • McCune
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Stone City. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Stone City.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Stone City. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stone City.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Stone City. See our Newspapers Page for Stone City.

Adding Stone City to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Stone City in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Stone City was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Stone City post office opened in 1900.

We also found Stone City on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Stone City.

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Stone City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Cherokee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Stone City - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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