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History · Quinter

Quinter’s post office opened in 1886, and 20% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1979 on and the census since 1910.

1886first post office
0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
4famous people
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How Quinter began

When was Quinter founded?

1886

The Quinter post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 450 in 19102020 census: 929140 years
Founding year: the first Quinter post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Quinter’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Quinter came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Quinter.

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The city of Quinter is built at the location of an old railroad switching site called Melota. A community named Familton' was built there in 1885, consisting originally of a hotel. The U.S. government would not establish a post office under the Familton name, because of possible confusion with other names in the state, so another had to be chosen. The name Quinter was settled upon, named after Rev. James Quinter, a local Baptist Brethren minister.

Longtime resident Waldo McBurney, age 104, was proclaimed the oldest worker in the United States in national media in November 2006 and again in 2020.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Quinter, 1886 to 1979

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Quinter post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Born hereWaldo McBurney is born here
  5. 1947Born hereMaggie McIntosh is born here
  6. 1951Born hereRick Billinger is born here
  7. 1957Born hereBrent Barrett is born here
  8. 1979On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Quinter on the map, 1979 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Quinter. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Quinter on the 1979 USGS mapQuinter on the 1985 USGS map1979Quinter sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Quinter.

People over time

Quinter, census by census

02004006008001,000192019401960198020002020Peak: 961

Between 383 and 961 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Quinter’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

4 famous people were born in Quinter

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Brent BarrettAmerican actor · b. 1957
Maggie McIntoshAmerican politician · b. 1947
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Waldo McBurneyAmerican centenarian · b. 1902
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Rick BillingerRepublican member of the Kansas Senate · b. 1951
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Quinter’s post office has been open since 1886.

Gone or out of use
Quinter Air Stripairport
1cemetery inside Quinter
Baker Township

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Quinter’s history

What year was Quinter founded?

The Quinter post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.