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New Almelo, Kansas

unincorporated community in Kansas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1956353 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Almelo is an unincorporated community in Norton County, Kansas, United States.

The St. Joseph Catholic Church of New Almelo was constructed of the unique pisolitic "algal limestone", a distinctive pink caliche that formed at the top of the Ogallala Formation.

History

New Elam was issued a post office in 1879.

The post office was renamed New Almelo in 1880,

then discontinued in 1996.

It is named after the city of Almelo, Netherlands.

Education

The community is served by Norton USD 211 public school district.

Editorial summary

“New Almelo, Kansas” enters the record as unincorporated community in Kansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Almelo, Kansas and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1880, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Almelo, Kansas and unincorporated.
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Why this record matters

“New Almelo, Kansas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Almelo, Kansas and unincorporated provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1956353. Authority coordinates are 39.596, -100.118. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1880 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Almelo, 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.