Orion, Gove County

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Kansas State University, The Chapman Center for Rural Studies

Abstract

This study of the slowly-vanishing town of Orion explores the western Kansas environment and the founding of a community in 1886. Wheat farmers claimed large farms in this area. Named for a schoolteacher, Orion had a vital life through World War II, when a gunnery range kept it vitalized. A few buildings, an abandoned store, and a cemetery remain. This study contains on-site photographs and personal research by the author.

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Brad Zerr, “Orion, Gove County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/1.

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Aerial gunnery range, Brad Zerr, Gaeland Cemetery, Gove County, Orion, School

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https://hdl.handle.net/2097/41055

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Chapman Center Research Collections

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