Keighley, Kansas
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Keighley is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas, United States.[1]
A post office was opened in Keighley in 1880, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1943.[2]
Until 1925, Keighley was a stop on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, east of Augusta, though that changed after the first oil strike. The small trading post became 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 and west of Beaumont.
