Goddard, Kansas (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Goddard is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,037. In 1883, E. Wilder purchased farmland on the planned railway of the Santa Fe Railway south of Blendon, Kansas approximately 10 miles west of Wichita. There, he established the town of Goddard, named after J.F. Goddard, then vice-president and general manager of Santa Fe Railway. The railroad reached Goddard in 1884, and a post office was established there the same year. Several buildings were relocated from Blendon, including the town hall and the planned Methodist church. Goddard was officially incorporated in 1910.