Friend is an unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. In biological terms a community is a group of interacting Organisms sharing an environment. Finney County (county code FI) is a county located in Southwest Kansas, in the Central United States. Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The town is located next to U.S. Route 83 and the North Line of the Garden City Western Railway, south to the county line of Scott County. US Route 83 is one of the longest north-south US Highways in the United States, at. The Garden City Western Railway, Inc is a railroad operating in the U A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. Scott County (standard abbreviation SC) is a county located in the U Other nearby communities include Shallow Water to the north and Tennis to the south. Shallow Water is a small unincorporated community in Scott County, Kansas, United States.

Originally the town was named McCue after Basil M. McCue of Hastings, Nebraska who was the organizer of the Garden City Gulf & Northern Railroad. Hastings is a city in and the County seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and The Santa Fe Railroad changed the name to Friend when it took over the railway line between Garden City and Scott City. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. Garden City is a city in Finney County, Kansas, United States. Scott City is a city in the rural far west of the US state of Kansas.

External links

• Historical Directory of Kansas Towns (M)
• Basil M. McCue at A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans

• Friend, Kansas is at coordinates 38°15′36″N 100°54′40″W / 38.260, -100.911 (Friend, Kansas)Coordinates: 38°15′36″N 100°54′40″W / 38.260, -100.911 (Friend, Kansas)

A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.

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