Rest, Kansas

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Wilson County, Kansas}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} '''Rest''' is an unincorporated community in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.<ref name="GNIS">{{cite gnis2|474924|Rest, Kansas}}</ref>

==History== A post office was opened in Rest in 1877, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:WL |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=20 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009125215/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:WL |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref> The community was named by an older settler who intended spend out his years at this locale restfully.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=115|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=111}}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{See also|Wilson County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Wilson County, Kansas}}

==External links== * Wilson County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/wilson.PDF Current] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530225018/http://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/wilson.PDF |date=May 30, 2022 }}, [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224151822/https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp |date=February 24, 2024 }}, KDOT

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