Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Lerado, an inland hamlet in the southern part of Reno county, is located 27 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat, and 8 miles southeast of Langdon, whence its mail is distributed by rural route. The nearest railroad station and shipping point is Olcott, 4 miles southwest on the Kingman & Larned branch of the Missouri Pacific. The population according to the census of 1910 was 70. The little town was laid out in 1888, and is the central trading point for Bell township.

Page 139 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.