Editing Larned, Kansas (section)

==History==
Larned was laid out in 1873.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n367 260]}}</ref> The first post office was established at Larned in 1872.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:PN |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828–1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=22 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009123040/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3APN |archive-date= 9 October 2013 }}</ref>

The city drew its name from nearby [[Fort Larned National Historic Site|Fort Larned]], which operated from 1859 to 1878 and was named for Colonel [[Benjamin Larned|Benjamin F. Larned]], U.S. Army Paymaster from July 1854 to his death on September 6, 1862.