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Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas

township in Ellis County, Kansas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7998736 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wheatland Township was a township in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. In the 2010 census, its population was 386.

Geography

Wheatland Township covered an area of 54.05 square miles (140.0 km2) and contained no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contained one cemetery, Saint Francis.

The streams of Big Timber Creek and Shelter Creek ran through this township.

Communities

It contained the census-designated place of Munjor.

Transportation

Wheatland Township contained two airports or landing strips: Philip Ranch Airport and Stecklein Field.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas” as township in Ellis County, Kansas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wheatland, Township and Ellis can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as township in Ellis County, Kansas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7998736. Authority coordinates are 38.762, -99.264. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas primary sources, Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas archive and Wheatland research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wheatland Township, Ellis County, Kansas”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wheatland Township, Ellis County, 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.