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.

Vance, a village of Wyandotte county, is situated about 6 miles west of Kansas City, the county seat, on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and on the electric line that runs from Kansas City to Fort Leavenworth. It is a local trading point of some importance and receives mail by rural delivery from Bethel. The population in 1910 was 120. There is also a hamlet called Vance in Linn county on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R., 5 miles north of Selma, the postoffice through which mail is received.

Page 841 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.