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.

Derby, a town of Rockford township, Sedgwick county, is located on the Arkansas river and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 11 miles southeast of Wichita. It has a bank, a money order postoffice with three rural routes, telegraph and express offices, telephone connections, Catholic, Evangelical and Presbyterian churches, good public schools, several general stores, a hotel, etc., and is the principal shipping point for a rich agricultural district in the Arkansas valley. The population in 1910 was 261.

Pages 514-515 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.