Editing Haysville, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Sedgwick County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of Sedgwick County]]
W.W. Hays came to this area in the early 1870s.  In 1891, he platted land that he owned so a town could be built.<ref>[http://www.haysvilleonline.com/hol/archives/669-A-Brief-History-Of-Haysville-With-Photos.html Brief History Of Haysville With Photos] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102122844/http://haysvilleonline.com/hol/archives/669-A-Brief-History-Of-Haysville-With-Photos.html |date=2012-11-02 }}</ref>
The Haysville State Bank was established in 1919.<ref>[http://haysvilleonline.com/hol/archives/669-A-Brief-History-Of-Haysville-With-Photos.html A Brief History Of Haysville With Photos] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201090932/http://www.haysvilleonline.com/hol/archives/669-A-Brief-History-Of-Haysville-With-Photos.html |date=2015-02-01 }}</ref> Truck farming supported a lot of the families in the area. In 1874 a grist mill was built on the bank of the Cowskin to process corn that was harvested in the area. Haysville's first school was built in 1876 at a location that may have been near what are now the Water Department facilities.

In 1887, the [[Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company]] built a branch line north–south from [[Herington, Kansas|Herington]] through Haysville to [[Caldwell, Kansas|Caldwell]].<ref name="Rock Island Rail History">{{Cite web |url=http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |title=Rock Island Rail History |access-date=2011-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619230000/http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |archive-date=2011-06-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was renamed in 1891 to [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway]] which shut down in 1980, renamed in 1980 to [[Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad]], merged in 1988 to [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]], merged in 1997 to the current [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. Most locals still refer to this railroad as the "Rock Island". In 1903, a depot was opened and passenger trains shuttled people to and from Wichita.

On [[1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak|May 3, 1999]], a [[tornado]] rated F4 on the [[Fujita scale]] struck Haysville, killing four people. Damage to structures included 150 homes and 27 businesses. The tornado continued into Wichita causing damage to the south side of the city, killing an additional two people in Wichita.<ref>{{cite web|title=Info on the May 3rd 1999 Haysville tornado|url=http://www.weather.gov/ict/haysville|publisher=National Weather Service|access-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> All of Haysville's historic district was destroyed. The only thing left standing on the east side of Main Street was the original bank vault.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}