Eminence, Kansas
Eminence is an ghost town in Finney County, Kansas, in the United States.
History
Eminence was founded in 1887.[1]
A post office was opened in Eminence in June, 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1942.[2]
In Popular Culture
Eminence is the FEMA 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
- ↑ "Finney County". Blue Skyways. Kansas State Library. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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