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We would like to provide the residents of  Portis  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Portis Home page. The Portis Home page provides as much information as possible on Portis. Knowing Portis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Portis’s Home page, you will also find Portis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Portis has a population of 157. 47.8% of Portis’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 75.6% of Portis is married and 98% own their own home. The Average Home price is $32,950. Household median income in Portis is $54,519, and the individual median income is $26,154. Portis’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.7%), Other(1.3%).


The first settlement at Portis was made in 1871. In that year a trading post was established at the site.In 1879, the town was platted with the name of Bethany. The Central Branch Railroad routed through the city and built a station. Later, the railroad was sold to the Missouri Pacific Railroad, it became the second "Bethany" on their railroad system.


To prevent conflicts with Bethany, Missouri, it was decided to change the name of this station. The name was changed to Portis, in honor of the Vice-President of the Missouri Pacific, Thomas Jefferson Portis (born in 1827).


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