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North Newton is a city in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 1,814. [ 3 ] It is located between the north side of the city of Newton (separate entity) and the south side of Interstate I-135 .
During the 1880s, Kansas cities and towns competed with one another to create and construct institutions and buildings, including colleges. On May 11, 1887, representatives of Newton and the Kansas Conference of Mennonites signed a charter for Bethel College to be built on a plot of about 120 acres (0.49 km 2 ) north of the town of Newton.
Newton: 15: Newton Main Street Historic District II: Newton Main Street Historic District II: November 15, 2003 : 411-825 N. Main St. and 414-726 N. Main St. Newton: 16: Newton Stadium: Newton Stadium: January 14, 2004
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton. [ 4 ] The next year, in 1872, Harvey County was founded from portions of McPherson, Marion, and Sedgwick counties, and named in honor of the fifth Governor ...
Newton Township covers an area of 26.77 square miles (69.3 km 2) and contains two incorporated settlements: Newton (the county seat) and North Newton. According to the USGS , it contains two cemeteries: Greenwood and Saint Marys.
The conference was especially attractive to recent Mennonite and Amish immigrants to North America and expanded considerably when thousands of Russian Mennonites arrived in North America starting in the 1870s. Conference offices were located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and North Newton, Kansas. The conference supported a seminary and several colleges.
The Bethel Threshers are the athletic teams that represent Bethel College, located in North Newton, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) since the 1939–40 academic year and in which they were a member on a previous stint from 1902–03 to December ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]