Yocemento, Kansas
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Yocemento is an unincorporated community in Big Creek Township, Ellis County, Kansas, United States.[1] The settlement lies across the banks of Big Creek against the base of bluffs capped by massive limestone blocks, in which lies the 20th-century origin of the community.[2][3]
Yocemento, Kansas | |
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Coordinates: 38°54′26″N 99°25′26″W[1] | |
Country | United States |
State | Kansas |
County | Ellis |
Township | Big Creek |
Founded | 1906 |
Platted | 1907 |
Elevation | 2,051 ft (625 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP code | 67601 |
Area code | 785 |
FIPS code | 20-80725 [1] |
GNIS ID | 484723[1] |
The original settler name for the location was Hog Back,[4][5] with a railway station first established there with that name in 1881.[6] This station was later moved[7] to Hog Back, Kansas. Hog Back was the local name for the high limestone and chalk ridge that runs from just west of old Fort Hays to Ellis. These bluffs are the local outcrop of the Fort Hays Limestone.[8] Established in 1906[9] by business partners Erasmus Haworth, the first state geologist of Kansas,[10] and I. M. Yost, leading businessman and miller of Hays,[11] Yocemento is one of the several communities around the outskirts of the High Plains that were founded to use Fort Hays Limestone to manufacture Portland cement.[12][13][14][15]