Ghost Town of the Week: Week of January 18th, 2015: Mitchell

I've been trying to promote Ghost Towns that have not received any coverage online. Unfortunately, I'm already running out of Ghost Towns that have much of anything left! So I'm going to cover Mitchell today, which has already been written about, but I'll provide my input.
Amy Bickel with The Hutchinson News does an excellent job wring about Ghost Towns near Hutchinson on her Blogspot, which can be found at http://kansasghosttowns.blogspot.com/ . She wrote quite a lot about Mitchell in 2011, and that can be found here:
http://kansasghosttowns.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html

An old church in Mitchell. It closed quite a while ago, however the building is being taken care of.

Mitchell's post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1953. The town comprises four square blocks and most buildings are now gone, however several houses are left and the old church, school and grain elevator do remain, however are not publicly used. The town is in central Rice County and not very far from Lyons; it's just a half-mile north of US-56 and the grain elevator is visible from the highway.

Like the church, the old school closed in the 1960s but is still being taken care of. I would imagine both buildings are probably used for storage now.

Maybe 20 people live in town. There are a few ruins but most of the town is wide-open and empty. The town's business district is nearly completely gone, except for this:

The town's old bank failed in the Depression and now just the vault stands on its foundation. This is about all that's left of the town's old business district.

Inside the vault: not much; about the same overgrowth that covers the rest of the foundation.

I'll leave this short and sweet, as this town has already been covered, but it's pretty cool and it's worth a visit.