Mayfield, Kansas Main Street by Kathy Alexander.
Mayfield, Kansas, is a small town in Osborne Township of Sumner County. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 75 and a total area of 0.11 square miles, all of it land.
Mayfield, Kansas depot and grain elevator.
Mayfield got its start in 1880, and a post office was established on September 8, 1880. Located on the Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Kansas Railroad, it soon had a side track, a depot, one or two houses, and a store
In 1910, the town was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. At that time, it had several well-stocked mercantile establishments, two flour mills, good schools and churches, express and telegraph offices, a money order post office with two rural routes, and a population of 225.
Federated Church in Mayfield, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.
By 1930, the town’s population had dropped to 187 and continued to decline in the next decades.
Today, Mayfield has a store, the Mayfield Federated Church, a post office, a community building, a ball field, and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway runs through the community. Lake Wellington is nearby.
Mayfield is five miles west of Wellington.
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Mayfield Center by Kathy Alexander.
Mayfield, Kansas Post Office by Kathy Alexander.
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An old school in Mayfield, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.
Sources:
Blackmar, Frank W.; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Vol I; Standard Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1912.
City of Mayfield Facebook
Cutler, William G; History of Kansas; A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL, 1883.
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