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Basic History http://www.kansastowns.us/hdkt/townc.html

1947 murders https://books.google.com/books?id=XEKou1ogxpoC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=calista+kansas&source=bl&ots=IWoUcX7CWw&sig=jC0q-EC7OpJpmzgPO-eRHvlsUFk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RCc5VdmnJYXxsAWj6YH4BA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=calista%20kansas&f=false

www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:KM founding and ending years.

County map http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223963/page/5 Right on the Santa Fe Railroad and near the Ninnescah River

Geography
Calista is located in southern Kansas about nine miles west of the city of Kingman and is near the south bank of the Ninnescah River.

History
Calista became a town in 1886 after the town of Maud (1881-1886) was moved there. This original town known as "Old Calista" lasted until 1896 when the town had to be moved to make way for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. "New" Calista was founded about two miles west-southwest of "Old" Calista and was a town until 1955. Now Calista is a ghost town with only a few buildings remaining and a small grain elevator open for about two weeks a year during the wheat harvest.