Windhorst, Kansas

Windthorst is an unincorporated community in Ford County, Kansas, United States.

A post office was opened in Windhorst in 1898, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905.[1]

The present-day community consists of a church, a school, a priest's house, and residential housing, but little more. It has no railroad station. The closest town is Spearville. The community is best known for the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, which closed in 1997. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and can still be visited.[2]

Education

Windhorst is a part of USD 381 Spearville Schools. The Spearville High School mascot is Spearville Lancers.[3]

Windhorst schools were closed through school unification. The Windhorst High School mascot was Bluejays.[4] The Windhorst Bluejays won the Kansas State High School class B Baseball championship in 1956.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Extinct Towns in Ford County, Kansas". Legends of Kansas. 2009-09-08. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  3. ↑ "Spearville Schools USD 381". USD 381. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Rozel Pins Windhorst For Title", Great Bend Tribune, 13 February 1959, p.7.
  5. ↑ "Baseball". KSHSAA. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

Coordinates: 37°47′07″N 99°38′31″W / 37.78528°N 99.64194°W / 37.78528; -99.64194 (Windthorst)


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