LeLoup, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas

Unincorporated community in Kansas, United States

38°41′40.03″N 95°9′35.89″W / 38.6944528°N 95.1599694°W / 38.6944528; -95.1599694^[1]CountryUnited StatesStateKansasCountyFranklinFounded1870Named forWolfElevation

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955 ft (291 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code785FIPS code20-39300 ^[1]GNIS ID479371 ^[1]

LeLoup is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas, United States.^[1] It is located a mile and half north of Interstate 35 on Tennessee Road, 11 miles northeast of Ottawa, 7 miles southwest of Wellsville.

History

LeLoup was founded in 1870 after the Santa Fe Railroad laid tracks through the area. The community was originally named Ferguson after Robert Ferguson, the original owner of the town site.^[2] The community was renamed LeLoup after a French traveler got off at Ferguson and mistook a coyote for a wolf and began shouting "le loup", then the community voted to change the name to LeLoup.

LeLoup had a post office from September 1870 until 1954; the name of the post office was changed from Ferguson in 1879.^[3]

Gallery

An old school in LeLoup (2008)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "LeLoup, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
^ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 137.
^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2014.