Editing Potwin, Kansas (section)

===20th century===
[[Image:381st SMW Titan II Missile Sites.png|thumb|right|[[381st Strategic Missile Wing]] [[LGM-25C Titan II|Titan II]] [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] sites]]
During half of the twentieth century, Potwin enjoyed the prosperity of oil fields in the [[Mid-Continent oil province]].  In 1920, John (Jack) Vickers (1891–1940) built the [[Vickers Petroleum|Vickers Oil Refinery]] in Potwin.  He got his start in oil fields in Butler County, commencing with the lease on the Parris Farm 10 miles north of Potwin, production reached 16,000 barrels a day during the 1950s.  In 1964, distressed economic conditions shut down the oil processing facilities.  The company was sold to Swift & Company and the remaining operations were closed in 1970,<ref name="History1" /> and later demolished.  In 1934, Vickers built a large mansion (named "Vickridge") east of [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] (now in the city limits), which his estate later become the current site of [[Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Tihen Notes Subject Search Vickers,vickridge|url=http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/pdf/People&Places/Vickers.pdf|publisher = Wichita State University Libraries’ Department Of Special Collections|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

In 1961, [[Frederic Remington High School]] was built immediately north of Brainerd.  Leading up to this new school, [[Whitewater, Kansas|Whitewater]], Potwin, [[Brainerd, Kansas|Brainerd]], [[Elbing, Kansas|Elbing]], [[Furley, Kansas|Furley]], Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school. Heated opposition between Whitewater and Potwin occurred during the discussion for the location of the new high school.  Rural voters pushed for a centralized location in neither town.  A public vote was passed to build the new school near Brainerd.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usd206.org/?PN=AboutUs|title=USD 206|website=www.usd206.org}}</ref>

From 1960s to 1980s, a [[LGM-25C Titan II|Titan II]] [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] site was located north of Potwin.  The site was one of eighteen overseen by the [[381st Strategic Missile Wing]] at [[McConnell Air Force Base]] in [[Wichita, Kansas]].  The Titan II near Potwin likely contained a 9 [[TNT equivalent|megaton]] [[B53 nuclear bomb|W-53 nuclear warhead]].