Hog Back, Kansas | |
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Location | |
Coordinates: 38°55′13″N 99°28′51″W / 38.92028°N 99.48083°W[1] | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas |
County | Ellis |
Elevation | 2,077 ft (633 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 0 |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 785 |
FIPS code | 20-32500 [1] |
GNIS ID | 484722 [1] |
Hogback or Hog Back, originally Hog Back Siding, is a location in western Ellis County, Kansas,[1] 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Ellis, Kansas.
Name
The name "Hogback"[2] comes from the topographic resemblance to a hog's back of the ridge immediately to the south of this location.[3] The name Hogback was given by the UPRR to a new Kansas Pacific Railway siding constructed at the location in 1907. The name was reused from the 1870s Hog Back Station siding another 3 miles (4.8 km) east. The earlier, scarcely-used siding had become redundant when a siding for the new Yocemento factory and town was installed one half mile to the east of the first siding.[4]
History
The new Hog Back Siding was located at the farms settled in 1878 by Kepple Disney and his children.[5] These are the grandfather, aunts, and uncles of Walt Disney. From there, Walt's father, Elias Disney left for Florida in the 1880s. The Disneys frequented Ellis while that community recognized that the Disneys' home was "at Hogback".[6] After Walt Disney established Disneyland, the family farms there were known locally as "Disneyland, KS".[7]
No town was ever established there. By the 1880s, a school had been established there one half mile north of the railroad tracks, which was named Beaver Bank for being built on the bank of a beaver dam on Big Creek. Disneys supported and taught at that school, Elias meeting Walt's mother there.[8] Much later, the school was the meeting place of the Busy Beavers 4-H Club.[9]
A cattle corral and a granary were built early at the new siding.[10] By the 1950s, only a shed depot remained,[11] which was later removed, leaving only the big railroad sign announcing "Hogback" until the 1980s.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Hog Back, Kansas", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
- ^ "An army captured". Salina Daily Republican. Salina, Kansas. June 4, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Rex C. Buchanan; James R. McCauley (1987). Roadside Kansas. University Press of Kansas (Kansas Geological Survey). pp. 96–102. ISBN 978-0-7006-0322-0.
[Between Yocemento [mile 153.0] and Ellis [mile 145.6]; at Interstate 70 Mile Marker 150.0:] A mile south of the highway is a railroad siding named Hogback, which probably got its name from a sharp bluff formed by an outcrop of Fort Hays Limestone along the Big Creek valley. [This source goes on to disambiguate this particular location from structurally similar Mount Oread.]
- ^ "Normal Notes". The Hays Free Press. Hays, Kansas. February 2, 1907. Retrieved November 4, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
The Railroad surveyors were busy this week setting the stakes for the new switches at Hogback and Yosemento [sic].
- ^ Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. 1922. Retrieved November 30, 2018. [Thomas Disney was Kepple Disney's brother. North of the siding is the Beaver Bank school where some of the Disneys taught.]
- ^ "Community Notes". The Ellis Review-Headlight. May 1, 1925. p. 6.
Mrs. Thomas Disney returned to her home at Hogback.
- ^ "Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come". The Hays Daily News. April 29, 1962. p. 12.
- ^ "Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come". The Hays Daily News. April 29, 1962. p. 12.
Flora Call, the mother of Walt Disney, went to school there. The school recieved its name because of the big dam across the creek [the beavers] had built.
- ^ "Busy Beavers 4-H Meeting". The Hays Daily News. December 14, 1958. p. 4.
Al Schenk talked to Busy Beavers 4-H Club members at a meating Monday night at the Beaver Bank School.
- ^ At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992. Vol. 1. Ellis County Historical Society. 1991. p. 65.
[picture of] Harvey and Lyle Luce at the elevator their father operated at Hog Back.
- ^ "Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot, Hogback, Kansas". Kansas Memories. November 20, 1954.
This photograph shows the Union Pacific Railroad Company's shed depot and sign board in Hogback, Kansas.