Dunkirk, Kansas

History

A post office was opened in Dunkirk in 1915, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1919.[2] Dunkirk was originally a mining community with coal mines operated by the Wier Coal Company.[3]

gollark: I'm not sure what to do about the proliferation of random web APIs. On the one hand, exposing USB and graphics cards and stuff *may* be a bad idea. On the other hand, it is a nice application platform still.
gollark: It would also ship with a good document diffing engine built in, so you could write declarative code like people do now with React, but faster and without frameworks.
gollark: It could probably also do that. I don't know if it would interact nicely with the coroutine thing.
gollark: i.e. like writing synchronous code, but the coroutine yields while an asynchronous call happens
gollark: Oh, and the Lua scripting environment would use Lua's cool coroutine model to do async *pleasantly* without magic keywords all over the place.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dunkirk, Kansas
  2. "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. University of Kansas (1918). Bulletin. p. 163.



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