Ghost Towns of Ford County

[Zeb]

Great Sources. I also see you have found a bunch of the benchmarks. I may have to get me a GPS. Thanks for the links.

[Jeonlyep]

Originally Posted by Zeb

Great Sources. I also see you have found a bunch of the benchmarks. I may have to get me a GPS. Thanks for the links.

Sometime if you want to try Geocaching or Benchmarking let me know, I've an extra GPSr and show you some of the ropes.

DAryl

[The Drifter]

on those maps looks as if snyder is north of howell on a couple but one places it further west of cimmarron on the third one. I've got distant relatives that are snyders and that works well with where i think they were from.

[Jeonlyep]

A map I found that had Snyder.
Title: Map of Kansas
Content Date: 1892
Corporate Author: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick

Another map, no Snyder.
Title: Kansas
Content Date: 1900
Corporate Author: Matthews-Northrup Co.

Nice clickable and zoomable maps.

DAryl

[Zeb]

I remember reading somewhere that a town was located at the old airport location in Dodge City. Was there another Air Port location in before the present one? I often wondered if they actually ment the old air Air Base. That would be close to where Snyder is shown on one map north of Howell anyway.

[Detector]

Ghost towns are great places to hunt because while you may not find much, what you do find is old. The best time of the year is in the spring when the weeds are low and the snakes are slow.

Always ask permission.

[lurker]

There is a ghost town north of Minneola. The natural gas booster stations along US 283 had an employee housing section that's been leveled and is now wildlife habitat. It's open to the public... and snakes.

[Made in the USA]

Originally Posted by lurker

There is a ghost town north of Minneola. The natural gas booster stations along US 283 had an employee housing section that's been leveled and is now wildlife habitat. It's open to the public... and snakes.

KP&L, Cities Service, NGPL, Northern Natural Gas, and alot of the compressor stations had housing for employees. All of these have been abandoned and torn down. Most of the older employees never knew what owning a house cost, until they retired!

[Reddemons54]

Just curious because I was searching Google and found an old map of Ford County, it has a town by the name of Hazelwood on it, NW of Dodge, I lived in DC my whole life except the last 4 years or so and had never heard of it. Have any of you?