Eminence, Kansas

Eminence is a ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, United States.[1]

Eminence, Kansas
KDOT map of Finney County (legend)
KDOT map of Finney County (legend)
Eminence is located in Kansas
Eminence
Eminence
Location within the state of Kansas
Coordinates: 38°08′50″N 100°30′37″W[1]
CountryUnited States
StateKansas
CountyFinney
Elevation2,608 ft (795 m)
Population
  Total0
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code620
GNIS ID485330 [1]

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]

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. "Eminence, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  2. "Finney County". Blue Skyways. Kansas State Library. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
  3. "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2014.

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