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Hoisington is a city in Barton County in central Kansas, located at the junction of U.S. Route 281 and K-4, about 15 miles north of the county seat of Great Bend.

Hoisington was founded in 1886 by the Central Kansas Town Company, a group of Barton County businessmen who laid out the town specifically to attract the Kansas and Colorado Railroad.

The town was named after Andrew J. Hoisington, one of the town company partners and a prominent businessman and newspaper publisher in nearby Great Bend.

The railroad reached Hoisington in the fall of 1886, and the settlement was incorporated as a city in 1887.

Hoisington became a major Missouri Pacific Railroad division point with a roundhouse and shops, and by 1911 the railroad employed about 1,600 local men.

Hoisington's population peaked at 4,248 in 1960; the 2020 census counted 2,699 people living in 1,164 households.

On April 21, 2001, an F4 tornado ripped a five-mile path through Hoisington, destroying 200 homes and 12 businesses and severely damaging 85 more homes, but the city rebuilt and recovered quickly.

Hoisington sits about 5.5 miles northwest of Cheyenne Bottoms, one of the largest inland marshes in the United States and a critical stopover for migratory birds; Blood Creek flows just south of the city into the Bottoms.

Hoisington has celebrated Labor Day in a big way since 1896, and its Labor Day weekend celebration is the city's signature festival.

Natural gas was discovered near Hoisington in 1929 and oil in the 1930s, diversifying an economy originally built on railroads and wheat farming.