Editing Summerfield, Kansas (section)

==History==
Summerfield had its start in about 1889 by the building of the railroad through that territory.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.marshallco.net/summerfield/sumhist.html | title=History Of Summerfield | publisher=Marshall County, Kansas Economic Development Office | accessdate=14 June 2014}}</ref> It was named for Elias Summerfield, a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORQ1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA187 | title=History of Marshall County, Kansas: Its People, Industries, and Institutions | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=Foster, Emma Elizabeth Calderhead | year=1917 | pages=187}}</ref>

The first post office in Summerfield was established in February 1889.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:MS |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=14 June 2014 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009124455/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:MS |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>