Transcribed from volume I 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.

Deerfield, a city of the third class in Lakin township, Kearny county, is located on the Arkansas river and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 7 miles east of Lakin, the county seat. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, several well appointed mercantile concerns, churches of the leading Protestant denominations, and is a shipping point for a large agricultural district. Deerfield was first settled in 1885, was incorporated in 1907, and in 1910 reported a population of 152.

Page 504 from volume I 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 May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.