Keighley, Kansas

Former schoolhouse in Keighley

Keighley is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas, in the United States.^[1]

History

A post office was opened in Keighley in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1943.^[2]

Until 1925, Keighley was a stop on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, east of Augusta. That changed after the first oil strike. The small trading post grew to a community of 500 people and included a grain elevator, a hardware store, hotel, lumber yard, café, post office and general store. In 1927, Keighley District completed at a cost of $15,000 a brick school building. In 1926, a fire destroyed the lumber yard and hotel.^[3] The brick school house burned down and was replaced in 1948 by a school house of cinder block, which still stands.^[4] By 1934, the once busy roads of Keighley were again simply highways. Today, it is on U.S. Route 400 east of Leon, Kansas and west of Beaumont, Kansas.

References

Municipalities and communities of Butler County, Kansas, United States
County seat: El Dorado
Cities	Andover Augusta Benton Cassoday Douglass Elbing El Dorado Latham Leon Potwin Rose Hill Towanda Whitewater
CDP	Rosalia
Unincorporated communities	Beaumont Bois d'Arc Brainerd De Graff Gordon Haverhill Keighley Lorena Midian Pontiac Wingate
Ghost towns	Oil Hill
Townships	Augusta Benton Bloomington Bruno Chelsea Clay Clifford Douglass El Dorado Fairmount Fairview Glencoe Hickory Lincoln Little Walnut Logan Milton Murdock Pleasant Plum Grove Prospect Richland Rock Creek Rosalia Spring Sycamore Towanda Union Walnut
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 37°40′21″N 96°38′34″W / 37.67250°N 96.64278°W / 37.67250; -96.64278