Annelly, Kansas

Annelly is a ghost town in Richland Township 9 miles southeast of Newton in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. The community was named by a local railroad official for his wife Ann and daughter Ellie. The town is located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad line between Newton, Kansas and Whitewater, Kansas. The latitude of Annelly is 37.972N. The longitude is -97.2W. Elevation is 1,391 feet.

In 1910 Annelly, (population 25) had a money order post office, a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R., a grain elevator, a hotel, and a general store. Today only an abandoned 1 room school house and the Main Street (Annelly Road or SE 57th Street, accessible from S East Lake Rd. and SE 60th Street) of Annelly still exist, though the schoolhouse cannot be observed or approached from public roads. A farm house on the west end of Main Street is still occupied. Gypsum Creek, a tributary of the Whitewater River, runs through "downtown" Annelly and the area is populated by white-tailed deer, Rio Grande wild turkeys, ring-necked pheasants, coyotes, and bobcats.

The area is now a rich agricultural and [http://abyss.kgs.ku.edu/pls/abyss/oil.ogf4.IDProdQuery?FieldNumber=1000148934 oil producing region] .