Gypsum Township Sedgwick County Kansas Genealogy Trails

Gypsum

Gypsum Township boasts of some of the best producing and finest improved farms in the county. It was first settled by Joseph Gifford, who came here in 1868, and was organized March 2, 1871. Of its early pioneers still engaged in cultivating its soil, are John Dolon, William Sweeney, J. K. Crabb, M. Clapham, the Staffords and L. Bronson. Several fine orchards returning rich yields of fruit, are already there as vouchers for that crop, while corn has averaged from fifty to sixty bushels to the acre in favorable seasons. The township is abundantly watered by tributaries of the Arkansas River, Spring Creek, Spring Branch, Dry Creek, Polecat and Eightmile Creek. It has seven schoolhouses, two or three church organizations and a well reputed literary society. Vegetables of all kinds can be raised with profit. Population, 597; valuation of property, $285,210.(William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, Part 2, Township Sketches)