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.

Narka, a village of Republic county, is located on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 14 miles northeast of Belleville in Albion township. It was established in 1887 by M. A. Low and C. J. Gilson, president and secretary of the town company, and was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1894. According to the census of 1910 it had 278 inhabitants. It has 2 churches, a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Narka News), a money order postoffice with three rural mail routes, telegraph, telephone and express facilities, and is a trading and shipping point for a rich agricultural district.

Page 334 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.