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.

Valley Center, an incorporated city of the third class in Sedgwick county, is located in Valley Center township on the Little Arkansas river, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the St. Louis & San Francisco railroads, 11 miles north of Wichita, the county seat. It has a broom manufacturing establishment, a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Index), schools and churches, a number of general stores, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population in 1910 was 381. This is the shipping and receiving point for a large agricultural and stock raising district and is headquarters for a number of men extensively engaged in stock breeding.

Pages 839-849 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.