Keokuk, Kansas

Keokuk
Ghost town
Approximate location of Keokuk
Coordinates: 38°15′29″N 94°57′13″W
Country	United States
State	Kansas
County	Linn
Township	Liberty
Time zone	UTC–6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CST)
ZIP code	66014
Area codes	913

Keokuk is a ghost town in Linn County, Kansas, United States. It was established in the 1850s, in Kansas Territory, and disappeared from maps by the 1870s. It was northwest of the original location of Centerville, Kansas, and was located twelve miles northwest of Sugar Mound.

History

Keokuk served as the voting place for the Big Sugar precinct in the March 30, 1855, election for the Territorial legislature. Seventeen votes were for the Free-State candidates and there were seventy-four votes for the pro-slavery candidates. Of these votes, thirty-two were found to be legal and fifty-nine were found to be illegal.^[1]

References

1. Cutler 1883, p. 1102.

Sources

• Cutler, William G. (1883). Andreas, Alfred Theodore (ed.). History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State; Of its Early Settlements; Its Rapid Increase in Population and the Marvelous Development of its Great Natural Resources. Also, a Supplementary History and Description of its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Advantages, Industries, Manufactures and Commerce; To Which are Added Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers. Chicago: A. T. Andreas. OCLC 1157121756 – via the Internet Archive.

External links

• "A New Sectional Map of the State of Kansas. Showing the Route of the Union Pacific Railway – E.D. to Denver City, Colorado. Complete System of Projected Railroads". Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Gedney. 1867.
• "Map of Kansas". Library of Congress. Chicago: Rufus Blanchard. 1869.