Editing McCune, Kansas (section)

==History==
The first post office in McCune was established in August, 1878.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:CR |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009124740/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ACR |archivedate=9 October 2013 }}</ref>

McCune was laid out in 1879.<ref name="History">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00chic | title=A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County, Kansas | publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00chic/page/31 31]}}</ref> It was named for its founder, Isaac McCune.<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/n278 171]}}</ref> McCune was incorporated as a city in 1881.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n193 203]}}</ref>

McCune was located on the [[St. Louis–San Francisco Railway]]'s [[Parsons, Kansas|Parsons]] subdivision. The grain elevator in McCune still stands, and was the largest on this rail line.<ref name="History" />