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==History== Hoxie was laid out in early 1886. The town founders convinced the residents of Kenneth, a community three miles to the north and the current county seat, to move south (including their buildings) at their expense to the new site of Hoxie. The residents of Kenneth knew the coming rail line would pass through Hoxie and not their town as they had hoped, so the offer was promising. The towns agreed to consolidate and carry out that plan, making Hoxie the new county seat.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n873 877]}}</ref> It was named for [[Herbert Melville Hoxie|H.M. Hoxie]], a railroad official.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hwy24.org/uploads/2/6/1/8/26189167/28_town_names.pdf | title=Origin of Town Names | publisher=Solomon Valley Highway 24 Heritage Alliance | access-date=9 April 2018 | pages=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n161 162]}}</ref> The railroad (which became part of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]) arrived in 1888.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n406 299]}}</ref> The 99-mile [[Plainville, Kansas|Plainville]]-[[Colby, Kansas|Colby]] branch of the Union Pacific railroad which passed through Hoxie was abandoned in 1998.<ref name="stbdec">[https://www.stb.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/cac42df635267da4852572b80041558c/2dd9b1959ed8d45685256548007806a3?OpenDocument Surfact Transportation Board Decision, Docket No. AB-33, March 21, 1997] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030225007/https://www.stb.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/cac42df635267da4852572b80041558c/2dd9b1959ed8d45685256548007806a3%3FOpenDocument |date=October 30, 2019 }}, STB.gov, Retrieved 23 October 2017</ref><ref name="plainvillebranch">[http://www.abandonedrails.com/Plainville_Branch The Plainville Branch], Abandonedrails.com, Retrieved 23 October 2017</ref>
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