Editing Stafford, Kansas (section)

==History==
Stafford was founded in 1878.<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/n410 303]}}</ref> As with Stafford County, the city was named for Lewis Stafford, a casualty in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5045 | title=Profile for Stafford, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=23 June 2014}}</ref> Stafford was destroyed by a tornado in 1882 and rebuilt within a year. Stafford was incorporated as a city in 1885.<ref name="Cyclopedia">{{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/n716 734]}}</ref>

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe [[train station|railroad depot]], built in 1911, was slated to be demolished in late 2016 but was ultimately saved by a last-minute petition from the Stafford community.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tanner |first=Beccy |date=November 16, 2016 |title=Relic of the past: Kansas' depots slowly fading away |url=http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article115277668.html |work=[[The Wichita Eagle]] |access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Aguilar |first=Amanda |date=November 22, 2016 |title=Man makes last-minute effort to save Stafford Rail Depot |url=https://www.ksn.com/news/man-makes-last-minute-effort-to-save-stafford-rail-depot/ |work=[[KSNW]] |access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>