Croft, Kansas.
| Town | Post Office Dates | Additional Information |
| Anderson | 1879-1880 | |
| Armistead | 1879-1887 | |
| Bates | 1884-1887 | The post office moved to Isabel. |
| Cairo | 1887-1922 | The post office moved from Irene. |
| Carmi | 1879-1891 | |
| Caven | 1887-1906 | A rural hamlet in the northwestern part of Pratt County is about 14 miles from Pratt, the county seat, and eight miles north of Cullison, the nearest railroad station, from which mail is received by rural delivery. |
| Croft | 1907-1961 | A village and post office in Springvale township, Croft was a station on the Wichita & Englewood division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, approximately 20 miles southwest of Pratt, the county seat. In 1910, it had telephone connections, a local trade, engaged in shipping, and had a population of 30. |
| Cullison | 1885-1967 | Cullison is a tiny town on the boundary between Banner and Richland Townships in Pratt County, Kansas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 83, and it had a total area of 0.17 square miles, all of which is land. |
| Dickerson | 1884-1886 | |
| Haynesville | 1877-1887 | |
| Hopewell-Fravel | 1904-1908 1916-1973 |
Hopewell, Kansas, is an extinct town located in the Rattlesnake Creek Valley of Pratt County. It got its start as a post office on November 25, 1904. The town’s name changed to Fravel in 2016 but changed back to Hopewell in 1921. Although the town is gone, a few buildings remain in the area, and the Hopewell Cemetery still stands just west of the old community. |
| Irene | 1884-1887 | The post office moved to Cairo after it closed. It was between Wichita and Dodge City. |
| Lawndale | 1884-1911 | A hamlet in Pratt County is located in Valley Township, about 20 miles southeast of Pratt, the county seat, and 8 miles from Cunningham, the nearest shipping point. It has a post office and daily mail. The population in 1910 was 25. |
| Ludwick | 1885-1888 | |
| Montefiero | None |
The Montefiero Agricultural Aid Society, located in New York, founded the colony of Montefiero in March 1884. The colony initially consisted of 15 Jewish families from Russia. That fall, they gathered their first harvest, and a schoolhouse and a sod synagogue had been built. Within the first year, the colonists came to terms with the fact that timber was scarce in the area, and due to a lack of measurable rainfall, water was also scarce. The colony disbanded in 1885, and some colonists returned to New Jersey while the rest relocated to Lasker in Ford County. Montefiore was located in the Mount Nebo neighborhood of Pratt County, six to eight miles south and east of Cullison. |
| Mount Nebo | 1879-1888 | |
| Naron | 1881-1907 | A hamlet in Pratt County, it was located 12 miles northwest of Pratt, the county seat, and 8 miles from Iuka, the nearest shipping point. The population was 45 in 1910. |
| Natrona-Olympia | 1888-1890 1903-1914 |
Immigrants from Germany began purchasing land in the northeastern part of Pratt County, Kansas, in the mid-1870s. From the beginning of the settlement, the church established a school to educate its children and maintain their faith and religion. The St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church is still active today. |
| Nora | 1879-1908 | This place was located 20 miles northwest of Pratt, the county seat, and 10 miles south of Macksville in Stafford County, its nearest shipping point, and 12 miles north of Haviland, in Kiowa County, from which it received its mail by rural route after its post office closed. |
| Paxson | 1885-1887 | |
| Preston | 1887-1990 | Preston, Kansas, is a small town in Haynesville Township of Pratt County. As of the 2020 census, the town’s population was 115, and it had a total area of 0.47 square miles, all of which is land. |
| Saratoga | 1878-1895 | It was located three miles east of Pratt |
| Silverton | 1884-1887 | The post office moved to Preston after it closed. |
| Southerland | 1878-1879 | |
| Springvale | 1878-1909 | The post office moved from Lola. This was a small hamlet in Pratt County located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. In 1910, it had a general store, flour mill, and express office, with a population of 21. It was 15 miles southwest of Pratt, the county seat, and three miles east of Croft, from which it received its mail after its post office closed. |
| Tokomo | 1885-1886 | |
| Tully | 1879-1887 |
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated June 2025.
Also See:
Sources:
Blackmar, Frank W.; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Vol I; Standard Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1912.
Fort Hays State University
Kansas Post Office History