Shannon, Kansas

History

Shannon was platted in 1883.[2]

A post office was opened in Shannon in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1941.[3]

gollark: IIRC it can be proven that no polynomial makes infinitely many primes like that.
gollark: It generates primes for a while then doesn't.
gollark: If it was not for knowing that it didn't always produce primes we may have been fooled.
gollark: Being highly efficient, everyone just put in increasing values until a composite number came out.
gollark: Once in a maths lesson we were doing (dis)proof by counterexample and got the traditional x²+x+41 thing.

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shannon, Kansas
  2. Ingalls, Sheffield (1916). History of Atchison County, Kansas. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 121.
  3. "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.


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