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==History==
There have been three separate towns with the name Labette in Labette County since 1866.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130 | title=History of Labette County, Kansas: From the First Settlement to the Close of 1892 | publisher=Crane & Company | author=Case, Nelson | year=1893 | pages=130}}</ref> The present one was founded in 1870.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi9cXyTWt9EC&pg=PA82 | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=82}}</ref> It was named for Pierre Labette, a pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4777 | title=Profile for Labette, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=12 June 2014}}</ref>

Labette was a station on the [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA127 | title=A Gazetteer of Kansas | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1898 | pages=127}}</ref>