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Stickney, Kansas
KDOT map of Barton County (legend)
Stickney, Kansas is located in Kansas
Stickney, Kansas
Stickney, Kansas
Location in Kansas
Stickney, Kansas is located in the United States
Stickney, Kansas
Stickney, Kansas
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Kansas
County Barton
Township Wheatland
Elevation
1,955 ft (596 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
67544
Area code 620
FIPS code 20-68250
GNIS ID 484733

Stickney is an unincorporated area in Wheatland Township, Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is the site of a grain elevator, but there is no community or settlement at Stickney.

History

A post office opened at Stickney in 1898 and remained in operation until 1913.

Geography

Stickney is located at 38°38′17″N 98°49′46″W / 38.63806°N 98.82944°W / 38.63806; -98.82944 (38.6380672, -98.8295292) at an elevation of 1,955 feet (596 m). It is 1 mile (1.6 km) east of U.S. Route 281 and 19 miles (31 km) north of Great Bend, the county seat.

Stickney lies roughly 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Sellens Creek, a tributary of the Smoky Hill River, in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains.

Transportation

Stickney lies at the intersection of NW 190 Road, a paved east–west county road, and NW 30 Avenue, an unpaved north–south county road.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway formerly operated a freight rail line that ran east–west through Stickney, but the line has since been removed.

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