Welcome to Viola ...

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

We've added Viola to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Viola - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Viola, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Viola , we believe that it would have been located within present day Ellis County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Viola, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881.

If Viola still existed, it would have been in the (785) area code.

Communities Also Named Viola ...

While we believe that this Viola is located in Ellis County, we know of another 2 Kansas communities named Viola. Those communities are located in the following counties: Elk and Sedgwick County.

Beyond Kansas, there are 31 communities that are also named Viola - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia (2), Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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

Adding Viola to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Viola was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Viola post office opened in 1881.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Viola.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Ellis County: www.ellisco.net/

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 Viola, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Ellis, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/