Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greenwood, Kansas

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The result was redirect‎ to Greenwood Township, Franklin County, Kansas. ^Complex/_Rational 17:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Greenwood, Kansas

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This is much the same situation as Appanoose, Kansas: a short-lived post office in the mid-1800s, replaced by a township. The situation is complicated by a flood of false Ghits, as there is also a Greenwood County in the eastern part of the state, and the community center mentioned is actually over near/in Kansas City. The church is there, though, with its cemetery, and that's all there is to the place presently. Again, there is no evidence for anything otehr than a vague locale. Mangoe (talk) 04:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Kansas. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
• Fortunately, Blackmar's 1912 Cyclopedia is A–Z, and can easily be checked by direct access without worrying about false positives. No Greenwood is there except the county. The only Greenwoods known to the USGS in 1898 are:

  Greenwood; village in Quincy Township, Greenwood County.

  Greenwood; station on St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, in Twin Grove Township, Greenwood County; altitude, 991 feet.

  Greenwood; southeast county […]

  Greenwood; township in Franklin County; area, 30 square miles; population, 712.

  Greenwood; township in Phllips County; area, 36 square miles; population, 303.

  — Gannett 1898, pp. 101–102

  I can find no Greenwood other than the township in Franklin in the history books. Andreas 1883 only has the township (on p.621), for example. Presumably people will want to disambiguate Greenwood County, Kansas, Greenwood Township, Phillips County, Kansas, and Greenwood Township, Franklin County, Kansas.

  Once again we are victim of the "A post office implies a village/town; so a defunct post office with no town implies a ghost town." double fallacy on the parts of people who don't know how post offices and townships worked. There is zero evidence beyond what the one source actually says, which is that this is a post office that used to be run by the Sac and Fox Agency Stage Company. Another source confirms that it was run by postmaster Elijah S. Buckner and changed names in 1861.

  Finally, returning to Andreas 1883, p. 621 we find that the Sac and Fox reservation in Franklin County was moved to Osage County in 1863, which is why the post office changed, so that Greenwood Township, Franklin County, Kansas could be settled in the reservation's place in 1863 and organized in 1865.

  It's an old Indian agency post office, that got renamed per the Greenwood Township. Ironically, Sac and Fox#History skips over Kansas in the 1850s and 1860s entirely without a mention, and goes straight to Iowa.

  Uncle G (talk) 08:16, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

• redirect to Greenwood_Township,_Franklin_County,_Kansas Uncle is correct, Checking local papers confirms this was just a township. James.folsom (talk) 23:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
• Redirect to Greenwood Township, Franklin County, Kansas per above discussion. I've added a few sentences / sources to that article to explain the history of the post office, its renaming, and closure.Jbt89 (talk) 02:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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