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Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railroad: Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1883 Southern Kansas Railway: Kansas City, Lawrence and Wichita Railroad: UP: 1889 1894 N/A Leased the Lawrence and Emporia Railway: Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison Railway: MP: 1880 1880 Missouri Pacific Railway
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, [2] making it the third-most populous county in Kansas.
A Shawnee Indian mission had been established at the present site of Shawnee in 1831. Shawnee was laid out as a town in 1857. [9] Kansas entered the union as a free state on January 29, 1861, to become the 34th state. [10] The declaration of a free state added to the tension between the anti-slave abolitionists and pro-slave Confederate guerrillas.
The Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway was a 7.1-mile (11.4 km) electric interurban rail line between Kansas City, Missouri, and Olathe, Kansas. [ citation needed ] When it began operation in 1908, it ran from Rosedale , southwest through South Park to Merriam , then west to Shawnee . [ 1 ]
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway: ATSF: 1900 1914 Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad: Kansas City and Pacific Railroad: MKT: 1886 1899 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad: KCS: 1893 1900 Kansas City Southern Railway: Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway: KOG ...
The 1910 population was about 63. The town was bypassed by the Kansas Midland Railroad (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe), which instead passed Olathe which caused the town to lose its county seat status. In 1987, Shawnee annexed land south of 55th to 83rd/79th west to the Kansas River, increasing the city size to 42 square miles (110 km 2).
The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad was formed under Kansas Law on November 9, 1990. [4] It originally acquired 287 miles of rail lines from the Santa Fe. [5] SEKR merged with SKOL effective January 1, 1999. [6] The line has gone through a number of subsequent acquisitions, leases and abandonments. [5] The current SKOL encompasses 730.34 ...
This is a route-map template for rail transport in Kansas, a United States railway network. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .