Piqua, a little town in Woodson county, is at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroads, near the east line of the county, 13 miles east of Yates Center, the judicial seat, and 7 miles west of Iola, the nearest large town. It has telegraph and express offices and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population according to the census of 1910 was 150. The town sprang up in 1882 after the building of the railroad, and was a successor to Bramlette, which was a trading center about a mile below, but was abandoned by the railroad at that time. The postoffice was established in 1882 with M. Street as the first postmaster.