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Alpha, Kansas
(McPherson County)

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Welcome to Alpha ...

Although we found mention of Alpha during our research, we have little information about it.^<1> We believe that Alpha had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists.

While we are confident that Alpha was located in McPherson County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

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

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Alpha might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

We believe that Alpha would be found within the (620) area code.

Communities Also Named Alpha ...

Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Kansas communities named Alpha: This one is located in McPherson County and the other is located in Finney County.

Beyond Kansas, there are 33 communities that are also named Alpha - they are located in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Missouri (2), Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington (2), West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin.

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

Search for Local Businesses ...

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

Business Owners: To appear in the above search results, your business will need to be listed with the Google Places service. Please use the below link to learn about and register for the free service.

If you find an error or if your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to register your business or report an error. We simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results. Only a registered owner/operator can add their business or correct mistakes - we can not do it for you.

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About McPherson County

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Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for McPherson County: www.mcphersoncountyks.us/

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

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Alpha and then turned east". While Alpha could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Alpha as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. The community might still exist or it might have existed for just a short period of time. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, families in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc.

Also keep in mind that Alpha could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community.

Alpha, Kansas (McPherson County)