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In 1867, the Kansas Legislature defined the boundaries of Rooks County with twenty-three (23) townships.
The county was named for a private, John C. Rooks, of the 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, who died from a wound suffered during the savage December 7, 1862, Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
The Codell School District No. 11, was organized in 1879 at Motor in a sod building with hand-sawed logs for benches.
If Kansas had a hundred tornadoes a year (it doesn’t average that many), then that would be one tornado for every 823 square miles.
Codell is a very small town, much less than a square mile in size.
The chances that Codell, having been struck on May 20, would be struck again on both the first and second anniversaries of that event are vanishingly small.