Editing Partridge, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Reno County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of Reno County]]
Partridge was laid out in 1886. It was incorporated as a city in 1906.<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/n436 446]}}</ref> Its name commemorates the [[partridge]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Capace|first=Nancy|title=Encyclopedia of Kansas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSFZV1bcgOQC&pg=PA252|date=1 June 2000|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-0-403-09312-0|page=252}}</ref>

In 1887, the [[Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway]] built a main line from [[Herington, Kansas|Herington]] through Partridge to [[Pratt, Kansas|Pratt]].<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>  In 1888, this line was extended to [[Liberal, Kansas|Liberal]].  Later, it was extended to [[Tucumcari, New Mexico]] and [[El Paso, Texas]].  It was foreclosed on in 1891 and taken over by [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway]], which shut down in 1980; it was reorganized as [[Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad|Saint Louis southwestern railroad " the Cotton Belt"]],  and merged again in 1997 with [[Union Pacific Railroad]].  Most locals still refer to this railroad as the "Rock Island."