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North Branch, Kansas

human settlement in Kansas, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7054232 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Branch is an unincorporated community in Jewell County, Kansas, United States. It is located two miles south of the Nebraska/Kansas state line at the intersection of Cedar Rd and 78 Rd.

History

Also known as Northbranch. North Branch had a post office from the 1870s until 1959.

Education

The community is served by Rock Hills USD 107 public school district.

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The public source identifies “North Branch, Kansas” as human settlement in Kansas, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around North, Branch and Kansas.

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—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with North, Branch and Kansas providing the first useful test.
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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 Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7054232. Authority coordinates are 39.973, -98.372. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “North Branch, 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.