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 Federal Emergency Management Agency 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.

Municipalities and communities of Finney County, Kansas, United States

County seat: Garden City

Cities	Garden City Holcomb

Unincorporated communities	Eminence Friend Gano Kalvesta Lowe Mansfield Peterson Pierceville Plymell Quinby Ravanna Ritchal Rodkey Tennis Wolf

Townships	Garden City Garfield Ivanhoe Pierceville Pleasant Valley Sherlock Terry

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