Turon, one of the prosperous little towns of Reno county, is located at the junction of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads in Miami township, about 33 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Press), a creamery, an elevator, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with two rural routes. Turon was founded in 1886. It was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1905. The population in 1910 according to the U. S. census report was 572.
Pages 822-823 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.
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