Eminence, Kansas
| Eminence, Kansas | |
|---|---|
| Ghost town | |
 KDOT map of Finney County (legend) | |
  Eminence | |
| Coordinates: 38°08′50″N 100°30′37″W / 38.14722°N 100.51028°WCoordinates: 38°08′50″N 100°30′37″W / 38.14722°N 100.51028°W[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Finney |
| Elevation[1] | 2,608 ft (795 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code | 620 |
| GNIS ID | 485330 [1] |
Eminence is a ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
History
Eminence was founded in 1887.[2]
A post office was opened in Eminence in June 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1942.[3]
In popular culture
Eminence is the Federal Emergency Management Agency refugee center established to take evacuees from Denver, Colorado as the event of an explosion at a train derailment and the subsequent detonation of a smuggled Russian nuclear weapon which was in the derailment wreckage in the 1999 TV movie Atomic Train.
References
- 1 2 3 Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Eminence, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); July 1, 1984.
- ↑ "Finney County". Blue Skyways. Kansas State Library. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
External links
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