Editing Bentley, Kansas (section)

==History==
In 1887, the Kansas Midland Railway was built from Wichita to Ellsworth, a distance of 107 miles, and the building of this line bisected Eagle Township and established a depot and town on section 11, Eagle Township.  The line was purchased outright by The Frisco on October 1, 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/history/1962history.cfm|title=The Frisco: A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway|website=Thelibrary.org|access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref> The Frisco was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1980, later it abandoned the line in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burRail/Rail/publications/ksrailpln06.pdf|format=PDF|title=Kansas Department of Transport : Rail Plan 2005 - 2006|website=Ksdot.org|access-date=20 January 2019}}</ref>

Bentley was laid out in 1888. It is named in honor of the city's founder Orsemus Hills Bentley,<ref name="CityWebSite" /> a railroad official from Wichita.<ref name="CityWebSite" /><ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofwichita02bent/historyofwichita02bent_djvu.txt |title=History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: Past and Present |publisher=Windmill Publications |author=Bentley, Orsemus Hills |year=1910 |pages=619}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

The first post office in Bentley was established in March 1888.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:SG |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=10 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009133447/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ASG |archive-date=October 9, 2013}}</ref>