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Frontenac was established as a coal mining town in 1886 in the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Fields in the western Ozark Plateau. [4] [5] [6] A post office was opened in Frontenac in 1887. [7] On the night of November 9, 1888, Frontenac suffered the worst mining disaster in Kansas history, [8] when a coal dust explosion [9] killed 44 [10] miners.
One of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1885. It lasted under that name even after its move to Denver, Colorado when the Kansas mines closed, until September 2007, when Chevron which owned the company, merged it with its Molycorp Inc. coal mining division to form Chevron Mining, thus ...
Capaldo was an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is currently part of the city of Frontenac , and located northwest of the Frontenac Industrial Park #1. History
The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The district produced lead and zinc for over 100 years. Production began in the 1850s and 1860s in the Joplin - Granby area of Jasper and Newton counties of southwest Missouri. Production was ...
Litchfield is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located east of Frontenac at S 250th St and E 570th Ave. History
Franklin began as a mining community in the early 1900s. It is located just off Highway 69 Bypass which is a major corridor between Kansas City and Pittsburg, Ks./Joplin, Mo. Franklin was a shipping point on the Joplin & Pittsburg electric railroad. [3] The first post office in Franklin was established in 1908. [4]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...
Yale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 81. [2] It is located northeast of Frontenac at the intersection of E 600th Ave and S 250th St, about 1 miles west of the Missouri state border. The community is home to the Chicken Mary's and Chicken Annie's restaurants.