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Jimtown, Kansas

place in Kansas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ48848611 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jimtown is a ghost town in Freedom Township, Phillips County, Kansas, United States.

History

Jimtown was issued a post office in 1875. The post office was discontinued in 1889.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jimtown, Kansas” as place in Kansas, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jimtown, Kansas and place can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as place in Kansas, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48848611. Authority coordinates are 39.842, -99.336. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1875 and 1889.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jimtown, 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.