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Industry, Kansas

human settlement in Kansas, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ12060738 ↗
Source-derived summary

Industry is an unincorporated community in Clay and Dickinson counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is located approximately 13 miles north of Abilene.

History

A post office was established at Lovejoy (an extinct town) in 1873, and moved to Industry in 1876 where it remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1906.

Education

The community is served by Chapman USD 473 public school district in Dickinson County, and Clay County USD 379 in Clay County.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Industry, Kansas” is human settlement in Kansas, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Industry, Kansas and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1873, 1876, 1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Industry, Kansas and human is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12060738. Authority coordinates are 39.133, -97.171. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1873, 1876 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Industry, Kansas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.