Map of Frontenac city, Kansas

Frontenac is the second largest city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,382.

Frontenac city overview:
Name:	Frontenac city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Kansas
County:	Crawford County
Founded:	1886
Incorporated:	1895
Elevation:	958 ft (292 m)
Total Area:	5.32 sq mi (13.78 km²)
Land Area:	5.22 sq mi (13.53 km²)
Water Area:	0.10 sq mi (0.25 km²)
Total Population:	3,382
Population Density:	640/sq mi (250/km²)
ZIP code:	66763
Area code:	620
FIPS code:	2024850
Website:	frontenacks.net

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History

Frontenac was established as a coal mining town in 1886 in the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Fields in the western Ozark Plateau.

A post office was opened in Frontenac in 1887.

On the night of November 9, 1888, Frontenac had the worst mining disaster in Kansas history, when a coal dust explosion killed 44 miners.

During the last decade of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century the town was populated primarily by immigrant families from eastern and southeastern Europe, predominantly Sicilian, Italian, and Slavic people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its maximum population neared 4,000. It housed various ethnic lodges and drinking parlors despite the state’s increasingly severe ban on the distribution, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.

Coal mining remained the town’s occupational base until World War II, when its economy began to change, as did the entire region’s.

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Geography

Frontenac is located at 37°27′16″N 94°41′43″W / 37.45444°N 94.69528°W / 37.45444; -94.69528 (37.454465, -94.695185) in the Cherokee Lowlands, at the western edge of the Ozarks. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.06 square miles (13.11 km), of which, 4.97 square miles (12.87 km) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km) is water.

Climate

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Frontenac has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated “Cfa” on climate maps.