Talk:USS Neosho (AO-23)

Sister Ships (1939)

• Adapted from Neosho's 1939 sister ship Talk:USS Cimarron (AO-22)

65.30.117.192 19:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)Bob-RJ Burkhart LCDR-USNR, Ret.
aka geoWIZard EarthSea-Keeper (talk) 21:42, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

USS Neosho (River Name Origin)

Cimarron-class oiler (1939)

The Four USS Neoshos

A river flowing south from its source in Morris County in east central Kansas
until emptying into the Arkansas River near Fort Gibson in Muskogee County, Okla.

There were four Navy ships named Neosho including AO-23
http://www.delsjourney.com/uss_neosho/four_neoshos.htm

Kansas History as Published in the Press, Kansas Historical Quarterlies...
digitized with permission of the Kansas State Historical Society. ...
"Neosho Tanker,"United States Navy oilers named for Thor
Neosho river, October 30 (pg.104) http://kancoll.org//////////khq/1948/48_1_offthepress.htm

Lindsborg, Kansas newspaper history was reviewed in the Lindsborg News-Record,
September 18, 1947. The earliest paper was the Lindsborg Localist, first issued April 19, 1879.
Included among the recent subjects discussed by W. W. Graves
in his "History of Neosho County," published in the Saint Paul, Kansas Journal, were the following:
"Farmers Union," September 18, 1947;
"The Grange," September 25; "Farmers Alliance," October 9;
"The Farm Bureau," October 16;
"Neosho Tanker," United States navy oilers named for the Neosho river, October 30