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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
O’Brien	Miami			Named for Perry O’Brien, a pioneer.
O’Brien Ferry	Doniphan	Lost Place	NA	Established 1861-62 on the Missouri River at Belmont.
Oak	Jefferson	Lost Town	1891-1895
Oak City	Seward	Lost Town		Vacated 1897. Founded in 1887. Ruby P. Cook was the first postmistress. The post office moved to Tyrone, Oklahoma. It was nine miles west of Liberal.
Oak Grove	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1874-1882	It was located in Belvue Township.
Oak Hill	Clay	Extinct Town	1871-1995	Oak Hill is a small town in Oakland Township on Chapman Creek, 15 miles southwest of Clay Center. The post office closed on July 16, 1995.
Oak Mills	Atchison	Lost Town	1868-1945	Oak Mills, Kansas, was once located along the Missouri River. The site was originally home to a Kanza Indian village. It was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Oak Ridge	Douglas	Lost Town	None	Jonathan F. Morgan and Governor Charles Robinson were the first to settle in Oak Ridge in about 1866.
Oak Ridge	Elk	Lost Town	1873-1882
Oak Valley	Elk	Extinct Town	1875-1954	There are still a few homes and buildings in the area.
Oakdale	Reno	Lost Town		Located on January 22, 1889.
Oakland	Jewell	Lost Town	1870-1878
Oakland	Montgomery	Paper Town		A paper town.
Oakland	Kingman	Lost Town	1883-1886	The post office moved from Lorette.
Oakland	Shawnee	Lost Town	1888-1910	Oakland was an incorporated community near Topeka, connected by a street railway. It once had several nurseries, large woolen mills, and the Oakland Blade newspaper. In 1910, its population was 1,465. Today, it is a neighborhood of Topeka.
Oaklawn-Sunview	Sedgwick	Current Town		Oaklawn-Sunview is an unincorporated community with a population of 2,880 as of the 2020 census. It is located on the south side of Wichita, along the west side of K-15 (Southeast Blvd) and the 47th Street South intersection.
Oakley	Logan	Current Town		County seat. Located near Monument Rocks on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Oakwood	Linn	Lost Town	1858-1905	Once situated in the western portion of the county about ten miles northwest of Mound City.
Oasis	Logan	Lost Town	1890	This post office just a few short months.
Oasis	Saline	Lost Town	1873-1875 1879-1880
Oatville	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1884-1936	Located in Waco Township, it was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, six miles southwest of Wichita.
Oberlin	Decatur	Current Town		Western Kansas continued to have Indian problems until the last Indian raid in Decatur County in 1878.
Ocena, Oceana	Atchison	Lost Town	1855-1858	The post office moved to Pardee in August 1858.
Ocheltree	Johnson	Lost Town	1869-1954	A village in the extreme southern part of Johnson County.
Ocoee	Reno	Lost Town	1879-1881	This place once had a school.
Octagon City	Allen
Odee	Kingman	Lost Town
Odell	Harper	Lost Town
Odell	Sheridan	Lost Town
Odense	Neosho	Lost Town	1872-1902	Odense was located in the northern part of the county, nine miles south of Erie. In 1910, its population was about 24.
Odin	Barton	Extinct Town	1950-1995	The post office closed on August 19, 1995.
Odessa	Jewell	Lost Town	1878-1888	In 1880, it had a Methodist Episcopal Church, a school district, two stonemasons, a boot and shoemaker, a wagonmaker, a blacksmith, several carpenters, and a stable.
Og	Reno	Lost Town	1880-1882	The town was named after a biblical giant who lived during the time of Moses. It was ten miles west of Castleton.
Ogallah	Trego	Extinct Town	-2004	It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The post office closed on January 10, 2004.
Offerle	Edwards	Extinct Town	1876-2018	The post office closed on May 19, 2018.
Ogden	Riley	Current Town		It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Ohio	Smith	Lost Town
Ohio Centre	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1873-1887
Ohio City	Edwards	Lost Town		Vacated 1897.
Ohio City	Franklin	Lost Town	1857-1870	Located on the Humboldt Trail, it became the county seat of Franklin County for a short time. The post office moved to Princeton when it closed.
Ohio City	Marshall	Lost Town	None	Ohio City was located in 1855 on the quarter section joining Barrett on the southwest.
Ohio Grove	Ottawa	Lost Town
Oil City	Butler	Lost Town	1877-1880
Oil Hill	Butler	Lost Town	1917-1958	Company-owned Oil Town.
Oil Valley	Butler	Lost Town	1920-1922
Okaw	Kingman	Lost Town	1884-1905	A country hamlet near the south line of Kingman County, it was located 20 miles southwest of Kingman. After its post office closed, it received its mail from Duquoin in Harper County.
Oketo	Marshall	Current Town
Oketo Ferry	Marshall	Lost Place		Operated 1859-67 on Big Blue River; Poor, Whitehead & Co., Proprietors. Located a half-mile south of Oketo.
Oklahoma	Kingman	Lost Town	1883-1888
Olanthe	Johnson	Lost Town		Incorporated 1857.
Olanthus	Norton	Lost Town
Olathe	Johnson	Current Town	1857-Present	County seat. On the Santa Fe Trail. Elm Grove/Lone Elm campground south of Olathe. Founded in 1856/1857 and named after the Shawnee expression for “beautiful.”
Olcott	Reno	Lost Town	1887-1903 1904-1907	It was the terminal station on the Olcott & Iuka branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
“Old” Ogallah	Trego	Lost Town		See Park’s Fort.
Old Ulysses	Grant	Lost Town		The site moved about 1899. The next site was called New Ulysses for a time.
Ole, Middleton	Jefferson	Lost Town	1857-1865	The town’s name was changed from Middleton to Ole in 1860.
Olene	Graham	Lost Town
Olivet	Osage	Current Town
Olmitz	Barton	Current Town	1881-Present
Olney	Rush	Lost Town	1874-1888
Olpe	Lyon	Current Town		On the Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Olsburg	Pottawatomie	Current Town
Omaha	Kearny	Lost Town	1888	Located in about 1888.
Omio	Jewell	Lost Town	1877-1889 1890-1895	Omio, in Vicksburg and Grant Townships, was located in the eastern part of Jewell County. Except for one old building, the town is gone today. Omio was 16 miles east of Mankato and 14 from Scandia.
Omnia	Cloud	Lost Town
Omnia	Cowley	Lost Town	1871-1873	The post office moved to Baltimore.
Onaga	Pottawatomie	Current Town
Oneida	Nemaha	Current Town	-2013	The post office closed on March 30, 2013.
Oneonta	Cloud	Lost Town	1890-1894
Onion Creek	Osage	Lost Town	1869-1870	The post office moved to Osage City.
Ontario	Jackson	Lost Town	1862-1922	A hamlet located near the northern line of the county about ten miles northwest of Holton.
Ophir	Butler	Lost Town	1881-1886
Opolis	Crawford			It was a station on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Orbitello	Lincoln	Lost Town	1880-1899
Orchard/Coonsville	Linn	Lost Town	1879-1901	Situated on Sugar Creek about ten miles east of La Cygne.
Orcuttville	Neosho	Lost Town	1870-1871	The post office was only open for about five months.
Ord	Neosho	Lost Town	1870-1872
Oread	Coffey	Lost Town	None	This was a paper town located near the farm of Wesley Stubblefield, ten miles northeast of Burlington.
Oregon	Jefferson	Lost Town	1882-1883 1885
Orel	Allen	Lost Town	1875-1881	Settled in 1867, Orel was located on the headwaters of the Marmaton River, in Orel Township in the east-central part of the county.
Orie	Sumner	Lost Town	1877-1893	It was three miles south and two miles west of  Mayfield at 50th Street South and Chikaskia Roads.
Orino	Jewell	Lost Town
Oriole	Smith	Lost Town
Orion	Cloud	Lost Town		Same as Arion.
Orion	Gove			It had a post office, a one-room school, a grocery store, a gas station, and a dance hall.
Orlando	Cheyenne	Lost Town	1886-1888
Orleans	Lyon	Lost Town
Oro	Butler	Name Change		The name changed to Fulton.
Orr	Doniphan	Lost Town	1893-1897
Orwell/Fordham	Hodgeman	Lost Town	1879-1888	The name changed from Fordham to Orwell on September 14, 1885.
Orworth	Lincoln	Lost Town	1879-1892
Osaga/Fulton	Bourbon	Extinct Town	1869-2005	Fulton, Kansas, a tiny town in northeast Bourbon County, was established in 1869. Initially, it was called Osaga, but it was changed to Fulton in April 1876. It is a semi-ghost town today.
Osage, Osage City	Bourbon	Lost Town
Osage	Miami	Lost Town
Osage Center	Osage	Name Change		Now Lyndon.
Osage City	Osage	Current Town		On the Santa Fe Trail and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Osage County	Osage	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties created in 1855. First called Weller County. Lyndon is the county seat.
Osage Mission/St. Paul	Neosho	Name Change		Now St. Paul. On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Osawkie	Jefferson	Name Change		Now Ozawkie.The first settlement was made in the spring of 1854 by Missourians, who erected a store and started a trading ranch on the old military freight road.
Osawatomie	Miami	Current Town		Named after the Osage and Potawatomi tribes. In August 1856, John Brown and 40 defenders were attacked by about 400 pro-slavery Missourians.
Osborn	Crawford	Lost Town	1867-1872
Osborne	Osborne	Current Town		Named for Vincent Osborne. Geodetic Center of the United States.
Osborne County	Osborne	Current County		Created from unorganized area in 1867. Osborne is the county seat.
Oskaloosa	Jefferson	Current Town		County seat. On the Smoky Hill Trail.
Ost/St. Joseph	Reno	Extinct Town	1882-1911	A country office and trading center for Sumner Township. It still has an active church and school.
Oswego	Labette	Current Town		The first permanent settlers arrived in 1865. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Oswell	Rush	Lost Town	1882-1883
Otego	Jewell	Extinct Town	1877-1954	A post office was established on November 11, 1887. In 1910, it was on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, had a money order post office with one rural route, express and telegraph offices, a good local trade, and a population of 175.
Otis	Rush	Current Town		Named for the land owner.
Otoe	Marshall	Lost Town	None	A stage station on the Oketo cutoff on the Otoe Indian reserve.
Ottawa	Franklin	Current Town	1964-Present	County seat. Named after the Ottawa tribe. Reverend Jotham Meeker established the Ottawa Baptist Mission in the summer of 1837. The town was platted in March 1864 on the Marais des Cygnes River.
Ottawa County	Ottawa	Current County	NA	Created from unorganized area in 1860. Minneapolis is the county seat.
Ottawa Creek	Franklin	Lost Town	1856-1864	The post office moved to Ottawa.
Otter Creek	Clay	Lost Town
Otter Lake	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1870-1886	Located in the center of Shannon Township.
Otterborn, Otterbound	Sheridan	Lost Town
Otto	Cowley	Lost Town	1872 -1915	A country post office in Grant Township, it was 20 miles southeast of Winfield and six miles southwest of Hoover, the nearest railroad station. The population in 1910 was 36.
Otto	Marshall	Lost Town		Chartered 1858.
Ottumwa	Coffey	Lost Town	1857-1906	Located on the Neosho River in Ottumwa Township, Ottumwa was established in 1857. Once showing great promise, it had a university.
Our Carter	Stafford	Lost Town
Oursler	Marion	Lost Town	1886-1889	Oursler was named for W.E.M. Oursler, who came to Kansas in 1870 and kept a post office in his place for several years.
Over Muncha	Ellis	Lost Town	1880	The post office was only open for five months.
Overbrook	Osage	Current Town		Located on a ridge separating the waters of the Wakarusa and the Marais des Cygnes Rivers. Located on the Santa Fe Trail. The community was once a center for the mining of bituminous coal.
Overland Park	Johnson	Current Town	1910-Present	Located west of Kansas City, Missouri.
Overton	Butler	Lost Town	1867-1869
Oxford	Johnson	Lost Town	None	Once located in Oxford Township, adjoining New Santa Fe, Missouri, on the Santa Fe Trail.
Oxford	Sumner	Current Town
Oxide	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1883-1888
Oyer	Rooks	Lost Town
Ozark	Anderson	Lost Town	1862-1885	This small hamlet and post office were in the southeastern part of Anderson County, near the border of Allen County. In 1878, it had a population of less than 30. When its post office closed, it was moved to Kincaid.
Ozark Divide
Ozawkie	Jefferson	Current Town		The town was moved when Lake Perry was built.
Ozro, Osrow Falls	Chautauqua	Lost Town
Ozro Falls	Jefferson	Lost Town

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