Frontenac, Kansas
| Frontenac, Kansas | |
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| City | |
 Location within Crawford County and Kansas |
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 KDOT map of Crawford County (legend) |
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| Coordinates: 37°27′16″N 94°41′43″W / 37.45444°N 94.69528°WCoordinates: 37°27′16″N 94°41′43″W / 37.45444°N 94.69528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Crawford |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.06 sq mi (13.11 km2) |
| • Land | 4.97 sq mi (12.87 km2) |
| • Water | 0.09 sq mi (0.23 km2) |
| Elevation | 955 ft (291 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,437 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 3,459 |
| • Density | 680/sq mi (260/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 66763 |
| Area code(s) | 620 |
| FIPS code | 20-24850 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0469741 |
| Website | FrontenacKS.net |
Frontenac is the second largest city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,437.
Frontenac was established as a coal mining town in 1886 in the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Fields in the western Ozark Plateau.
A post office was opened in Frontenac in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.
On the night of November 9, 1888, Frontenac had the worst mining disaster in Kansas history, when a coal dust explosion killed 44 miners.
During the last decade of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century the town was populated primarily by immigrant families from eastern and southeastern Europe, predominantly Sicilian, Italian, and Slavic people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its maximum population neared 4,000. It housed various ethnic lodges and drinking parlors despite the state's increasingly severe ban on the distribution, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
Coal mining remained the town's occupational base until World War II, when its economy began to change, as did the entire region's.
Frontenac is located at 37°27′16″N 94°41′43″W / 37.45444°N 94.69528°W (37.454465, -94.695185) in the Cherokee Lowlands, at the western edge of the Ozarks. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.06 square miles (13.11 km2), of which, 4.97 square miles (12.87 km2) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km2) is water.
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