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Phillipsburg is the county seat and largest city of Phillips County in northwestern Kansas, about 20 miles south of the Nebraska border.

Phillipsburg was organized in 1872 and was named the county seat on July 26 of that year because of its central location in the county, although the first residents did not arrive until late that year; it was incorporated as a city in 1880.

Both the city and county were named for William A. Phillips, a Kansas politician, journalist and Civil War colonel.

Phillipsburg's first post office opened on December 23, 1872, and its name was spelled "Phillipsburgh" until 1893.

Nicknamed the "City of the Hills," Phillipsburg sits in the uplands of Deer Creek on the western edge of the Smoky Hills region.

Fort Bissell was built at Phillipsburg in 1872 for frontier defense and closed in 1878; a reconstruction of the fort was built in the city park in 1962.

A fire nearly destroyed Phillipsburg's entire town square in 1906, and the current Phillips County Courthouse was constructed in 1912.

Phillipsburg hosts "Kansas' Biggest Rodeo," first held in 1929 and staged every year in late July or early August.

In 1939 the Consumers Cooperative Association opened the world's first cooperative oil refinery on the northern edge of Phillipsburg; it operated until 1992.

The TAMKO Building Products roofing shingle plant, built in 1969, is now Phillipsburg's largest manufacturer, and the Amber Wave ethanol plant opened east of town in 2006.