Carlyle, Kansas

Infobox Settlement
name = Carlyle
settlement_type = Unincorporated
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map_caption = Map of Allen County ()


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = USA
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = flag|Kansas
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Allen County
subdivision_type3 = Township
subdivision_name3 = Carlyle
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established_title = Settled
established_date = 1858
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timezone = Central (CST)
utc_offset = -6
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elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 305
elevation_ft = 1001
latd = 37 |latm = 59 |lats = 37 |latNS = N
longd = 95 |longm = 23 |longs = 27 |longEW = W

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postal_code = 66749
area_code = 620
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blank_info = 20-10700 GR|3
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Carlyle is an unincorporated community in the northwestern part of Allen County, located in southeast Kansas, in the central United States. It was first settled in 1858. Although official populations are not compiled for unincorporated places, the population of the surrounding Carlyle Township was 276 in the 2000 census.

History

A great part of the settlement in Allen County during the year 1858 was in what is now Deer Creek Township, along and near Deer Creek. In the fall of 1857, a small colony had been formed in Parke and Johnson counties, Indiana, for the purpose of making a settlement, and building up a town, which was to be named Carlyle. After the selection of the site north of Deer Creek, in 1857, two young men, P.M. Carmine and R.V. Ditmars were left to build cabins. In the spring of 1858, the colonists began to arrive. Among the first were T.P. Killen, J.M. Evans, S.C. Richards, J.W. Scott, David Bergen, and H. Scott. The Carlyle colony selected convert|320|acre|km2 for a town site and proposed to build a church, schoolhouse and make other improvements calculated to insure the speedy building up of the proposed town. Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened.

Though not successful in building a town, the colony prospered. A post office was secured, and a postal route established from Leavenworth via Hyatt, in Anderson County, Carlyle and Cofachique to Humboldt, in 1858. A church and schoolhouse was afterward built, a high school kept up, and part of the time there has been a store, while it had always retained the post office. Carlyle was well known and it had always been a prosperous and progressive neighborhood. When the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad (later the K.C., L. & S.K. R.R.) was built, Carlyle was made a station. [Copied from the following public domain source: Cite book| last=Cutler| first=William G.| title=History of the State of Kansas| origyear=1883| url=http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/| accessdate=2007-11-10| publisher=A.T. Andreas| location=Chicago, IL| chapter=Allen County| chapterurl=http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/allen/allen-co-p1.html|.]

The post office was finally closed in November 1988. [Cite web| title=Kansas Post Offices Database| url=http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.htm| publisher=Kansas State Historical Society| accessdate=2007-11-11| Containing information taken from Cite book| first=Robert W| last=Baughman| title=Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828–August 3, 1961| publisher=Kansas Postal History Society|]

Geography

Carlyle is located at coord|37|59|37|N|95|23|27|W|type:city_region:US-KS (37.9936436, -95.3908145),GR|3 in Township 23–24 south, Range 18 east. Contained entirely within Carlyle Township in Allen County, it is about five miles (8 km) north of Iola (the county seat), at the intersection of Texas Road and CR 1600 and less than a mile west of U.S. Route 169. An abandoned railroad passes to the east of Carlyle. [Cite web| title=KDOT County Maps| url=http://www.ksdot.org/burtransplan/maps/Mapscounties.asp| year=1999| accessdate=2007-11-11|]

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