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Paint Creek site

Coordinates: 38°30′5″N 97°42′55″W / 38.50139°N 97.71528°W / 38.50139; -97.71528
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Paint Creek site (14MP1)
Paint Creek site is located in Kansas
Paint Creek site
Paint Creek site is located in the United States
Paint Creek site
LocationWestern bank of Paint Creek, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of its confluence with the Smoky Hill River[2]
Nearest cityLindsborg, Kansas
Coordinates38°30′5″N 97°42′55″W / 38.50139°N 97.71528°W / 38.50139; -97.71528
Area50 acres (20 ha)
NRHP reference No.72001449[1]
Added to NRHPJune 20, 1972

Paint Creek site (14MP1) is an historical site near Lindsborg in McPherson County, Kansas. This ancestral Wichita village is considered part of the Little River focus of the Great Bend aspect and was occupied around 1300 to 1650 CE.[3]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Wedel, Waldo. "Salina 1: A Protohistoric Village Site in McPherson County, Kansas". Nebraska History Magazine 15.3 (1934): 239-251: 239.
  3. ^ "Great Bend aspect Little River focus vessel". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved December 9, 2018.