Elbing is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States.

[1] It is named after the city Elbląg (German: Elbing) in northern Poland, formerly Prussia.

[4] It is located about 10.7 miles east of Interstate 135 in Newton, along the Union Pacific Railroad.

For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans.

In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre.

In 1855, Butler County was established within the Kansas Territory, which included the land for modern day Elbing.

In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch line north–south from Herington through Elbing to Caldwell.

The track passed through the land of Jacob W. Regier in section 17 of the Fairmount Township in Butler county in south central Kansas.

A post office was established in Worth (an extinct town) on March 16, 1886, but it was moved to Elbing on November 2, 1887.

The brick building stands vacant today and students who attend a public school travel to nearby cities.

The Missionary Church, built in Elbing in 1910, was used until the 1960s when the congregation moved to nearby Newton.

The oil field rapidly declined and a fire destroyed much of Elbing in 1933.

For several decades downtown Elbing included only a grocery/hardware store, a gas station/garage, a post office, and a grain elevator.

Berean Academy, probably more than any business or group of people, has sustained the life of Elbing.

Some live here because they teach at the school and others make it their home here so that their children can attend Berean Academy.

It still has only three north and south streets (Main, Regier, and Johnson); and with the exception of about 20 acres (81,000 m2) that was added at the south end by annexing Berean Academy, it is still 1/4 mile wide and 1/2 mile long.

During the last three decades almost forty houses have been built in Elbing, so only a few of its original lots remain unoccupied.

The town still has a small Post Office and is in the process of building its first fire station.

[10] In 1961, Frederic Remington High School was built immediately north of Brainerd.

Heated opposition between Whitewater and Potwin occurred during the discussion for the location of the new high school.

[11] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.19 square miles (0.49 km2), all of it land.

[12] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[14] The 2020 United States census counted 226 people, 77 households, and 62 families in Elbing.

[2] The community is served by Remington USD 206 public school district.

The Oklahoma Kansas Texas (OKT)[30] line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs north–south through the east side of the city.