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Welcome to Stickney ...

Although we found mention of Stickney during our research, we have little information about it.<1> We believe that Stickney 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..

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


The location of Stickney has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Stickney, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1898.

Stickney is 1,950 feet [594 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

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

Communities Also Named Stickney ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 7 communities that are also named Stickney - they are located in Illinois, Missouri, New Brunswick, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Stickney ...

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

  • Great Bend
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Russell
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Hoisington
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Claflin
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Gorham
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gorham have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorham
    • Gorham is located in Russell County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 336 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gorham <4>
  • Otis
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Otis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis
    • Otis is located in Rush County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Otis <4>
  • Dorrance
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dorrance have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorrance
    • Dorrance is located in Russell County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dorrance <4>
  • Albert
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Albert have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albert
    • Albert is located in Barton County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Albert <4>
  • Olmitz
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Bunker Hill
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bunker Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
    • Bunker Hill is located in Russell County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 93 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bunker Hill <4>

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 Stickney. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Stickney.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Stickney. 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 Stickney.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Stickney ...

Looking for more information about Stickney? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Stickney, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Stickney.

Adding Stickney to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Stickney in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Stickney was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Stickney post office opened in 1898.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Stickney.

The official website for Barton County: www.bartoncounty.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Stickney and then turned west". While Stickney could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Stickney 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 (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Stickney 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 - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>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.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Stickney - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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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