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Homesteading in Norton County
Calvert
Settled by the Bieber family in 1875 and later platted by the Kansas Town and Land Company on January 16, 1888, the town site was originally known as Neighborville. The name was changed to Set, then to Calvert. It was on both the Rock Island Railroad and the Burlington Railroad lines, which was productive in hauling the silica that was mined just south of the town.
The ethnicity of its settlers is not known.
Sources
Bowers, D. N. Seventy Years in Norton County, Kansas, 1872-1942. The Norton County Champion,
Norton, Kansas, 1942.
Nicholson, John H. A History of Norton County, Kansas. Masters Thesis,
Colorado State College of Education, 1941.