Basil / Gage | Belmont
| Cleveland | Cunningham
| Kingman |
Murdock | Nashville | Norwich
| Penalosa | Rago
| Spivey | Waterloo
| Willowdale |
Zenda
Homesteading in Kingman County
Belmont
Organized as a post office in 1879,
a town site was approved on September 14, 1885. Soon there were
two general stores, a livery stable, and a restaurant among the
businesses that set up shop in the new town. The Denver, Memphis
and Atlantic Railroad built tracks through Belmont in 1886.
The town's demise was created by a
number of different factors - a fire, bank robberies, loss of
the town doctor, and the depression in the 1930's. Only a few
people remained in Belmont.
Clyde Cessna, founder of the Cessna
Aircraft Company, was raised a few miles south of Belmont.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
"Kingman County History:
Kingman County, Kansas and Its People." Kingman, KS: Kingman
County Historical Society, 1984.
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