Altoona, Kansas

Cedar Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, in the United States.

Wilson County (standard abbreviation: WL) is a county located in Southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 8,624. Its county seat is Fredonia.

Chetopa Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, in the United States.

Neodesha Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.

Chetopa Creek is a stream in Wilson County, Kansas and Neosho County, Kansas, in the United States.The Osage Indians made settlement near Chetopa Creek. Chetopa was the name of an Osage chief.

Guilford Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.

Pleasant Valley Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, in the United States.

Neodesha is a city in Wilson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,275. The name is derived from the Osage Indian word, Ni-o-sho-de, and is translated as The-Water-Is-Smoky-With-Mud.

The Brown Hotel in Neodesha, Kansas, at 523 Main St., was built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The listing was expanded in 2008.Its main facades faces north onto Main St. and west onto 6th Ave.; the main entrance is on an angle at the corner itself. This 1896 building is a two-story one, built to replace an earlier frame building which was destroyed in a fire, and it has a veranda added around 1904. The 1995 National Register listing also included a two-story 1922 brick addition extending the building to the south. After further research was completed, the listing was expanded in 2008 to include a two-story brick commercial building adjacent on the east, which was built around 1904 and was connected to the original hotel.

The Neodesha United States Post Office, located at 123 N. Fifth St. in Neodesha, Kansas was built in 1938. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as US Post Office-Neodesha.It includes a mural by New York City artist Bernard J. Steffen titled Neodesha's First Inhabitants. The mural is a tempera on pressed wood board mural "that depicts the friendly relations between the Osage Indians of southeastern Kansas and the early white settlers. On the right side of the canvas Osage Chief Little Bear waves to Dr. T. Blakeslee, a physician responsible for much of the peacefulness between the two cultures."The post office was deemed significant " for its historical association with the Treasury Department's Section program and for the artistic significance of the mural that it contains."

Norman No. 1 Oil Well Site is the site of an abandoned oil well, located at the northeast corner of Mill and First Streets in Neodesha, Kansas, USA. The well, which was drilled on November 28, 1892, was the first successful well in what is now known as the Mid-Continent oil field, kicking off a major oil boom in states from Kansas to Texas and Louisiana. The well site, now a small municipal park, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

Newark Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.