silica, kansas, silica, unincorporated, community, southwestern, pioneer, township, rice, county, kansas, united, states, lies, along, local, roads, fraction, mile, about, north, route, miles, east, ellinwood, miles, west, lyons, unincorporated, communitykdot,. Silica is an unincorporated community in southwestern Pioneer Township Rice County Kansas United States 1 It lies along local roads a fraction of a mile about 500 m north of U S Route 56 K 96 6 miles 9 7 km east of Ellinwood and 14 miles 23 km west of Lyons 2 Silica KansasUnincorporated communityKDOT map of Rice County legend SilicaShow map of KansasSilicaShow map of the United StatesCoordinates 38 21 06 N 98 27 43 W 38 35167 N 98 46194 W 38 35167 98 46194 1 CountryUnited StatesStateKansasCountyRiceTownshipPioneerElevation 1 1 791 ft 546 m Time zoneUTC 6 CST Summer DST UTC 5 CDT Area code620FIPS code20 65475GNIS ID484747 1 Contents 1 History 2 Education 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksHistory editFor millennia the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans In 1803 most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase In 1854 the Kansas Territory was organized then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U S state In 1867 Rice County was founded Silica had a post office from 1893 until 1953 3 Education editThe community is served by Chase Raymond USD 401 public school district References edit a b c d U S Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System Silica Kansas DeLorme Kansas Atlas amp Gazetteer 4th ed Yarmouth DeLorme 2009 p 47 ISBN 0 89933 342 7 Kansas Post Offices 1828 1961 Kansas Historical Society Archived from the original on October 9 2013 Retrieved June 22 2014 Further reading editSee also List of books about Rice County KansasExternal links editRice County maps Current Historic KDOT nbsp This article about a location in Rice County Kansas is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Silica Kansas amp oldid 1175830842, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,