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.

Woodsdale, a rural postoffice in Stevens county, is located about 10 miles north of Hugoton, the county seat. It has mail daily and one rural route. This is the remains of the town founded by Col. Samuel N. Wood and a number of other gentlemen in 1886, which they laid off as near the center of the county as possible, north of the sand hills. It was a candidate in one of the most bitterly fought and bloody county seat contests in the state. (See Stevens county.)

Page 934 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.