Fontana, KS

Fontana is a city in south central Miami County, Kansas, United States, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 2020 census counted 210 residents. Fontana was given to the small city from a spring near the town site. Part of this property would eventually become the townsite and rural community of Fontana. With a farm-based economy, the Fontana Co-Op is of great importance to the area farmers. Students from grades 6–12 attend Prairie View Middle School or Prairie View High School in La Cygne. A newcomer can read Fontana through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Fontana comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.