Place:Downs, Osborne, Kansas, United States

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NameDowns
Alt namesVioletsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS20004062
TypeCity
Coordinates39.503°N 98.544°W
Located inOsborne, Kansas, United States
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Downs is a city in Osborne County, Kansas, United States.[1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 800.

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Downs had its start in the year 1879 when the Central Branch Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for William F. Downs, a railroad official from Atchison. Downs became an incorporated town in December of the same year. In 1910, the city had a population of 1,427. Business included 2 newspapers, a public library, flour mills, grain elevators, and an opera house.

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