Anness, Kansas

Anness is an unincorporated community in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

History

Anness had its start by the building of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway through that territory.^[1]^[2] The original owner of the site named the town in honor of his wife, Ann S. Wilson.^[2]

Anness was founded in the 1880s by WH Wilson, in what is now Sedgwick County. The first post office in Anness was established in February 1887.^[3]

References

↑ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. Standard Publishing Company. p. 77.
1 2 Bentley, Orsemus Hills (1910). History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: Past and Present. Windmill Publications. p. 618.
↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2014.

External links

Sedgwick County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Municipalities and communities of Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States

County seat: Wichita

Cities	Andale Bel Aire Bentley Cheney Clearwater Colwich Derby Eastborough Garden Plain Goddard Haysville Kechi Maize Mount Hope Mulvane‡ Park City Sedgwick‡ Valley Center Viola Wichita

CDPs	McConnell AFB Oaklawn-Sunview

Unincorporated communities	Anness Bayneville Bellaire Berwet Clonmel Furley Greenwich Greenwich Heights Murray Gill Peck‡ Prospect St. Marks St. Mary Aleppo St. Paul Schulte Sunnydale Waco Wego

Townships	Afton Attica Delano Eagle Erie Garden Plain Grand River Grant Greeley Gypsum Illinois Kechi Lincoln Minneha Morton Ninnescah Ohio Park Payne Riverside Rockford Salem Sherman Union Valley Center Viola Waco Wichita

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 37°28′55″N 97°43′43″W / 37.48194°N 97.72861°W / 37.48194; -97.72861

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