Editing Leoti, Kansas (section)

== History ==
Leoti was founded in 1885<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/n420 313]}}</ref> by a company of men from [[Garden City, Kansas|Garden City]], Kansas.  Two years later, in 1887, it was involved in the bloodiest [[County seat war|county seat fight]] in the history of the [[American West]]. The shoot-out was on February 27, 1887, when men&mdash;some{{Who|date=August 2024}} say hired gunmen&mdash;from Leoti, went to the neighboring, rival town of [[Coronado, Kansas|Coronado]] and left several people dead and wounded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wichitacounty.org/things-to-do/attractions/8-wonders-of-wichita-county|title=8 Wonders of Wichita County|publisher=Wichita County|location=Wichita County, KS|accessdate=September 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://genealogytrails.com/kan/wichita/countyseat.html|title=County Seat History of Wichita County, Kansas|accessdate=September 24, 2019}}</ref> A small town called [[Farmer City, Kansas|Farmer City]] which was located between Coronado and Leoti, was hoped by some to become the county seat—which would end the fighting. Leoti later won the right to become the county seat and now the two other towns consist mainly of farmland. {{citation needed|date=December 2010}}

The origin of the name Leoti is disputed: one tradition says the name is an Indian term for "prairie flower"; another says the community was named for settler Leoti Kibbee; a third says it was named for Leoti Gray, the daughter of a town founder.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4802 | title=Profile for Leoti, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=28 June 2014}}</ref>