Chisholm Trail near Caldwell, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.
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| Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
| Cabbell | Logan | Lost Town | 1887-1909 | A post office opened in August 1887 and closed in September 1909. |
| Cabin Valley | Cowley | Lost Town | 1872-1876 | |
| The Caches | Ford | Area | NA | On the Santa Fe Trail. |
| Cadmus | Linn | Ghost Town | 1877-1902 | Technically, it is an extinct town because it no longer has a post office. However, there are a few remaining buildings and homes. |
| Cady | Linn | Lost Town | 1871-1876 | |
| Cage | Butler | Lost Town | 1887-1894 | |
| Cahola | Chase | Lost Town | 1879-1902 | In 1853, the site of Cahola was on the Kanza Indian Reservation, a short distance north of the south line of the reserve. |
| Cain City | Ellsworth | Lost Town | ||
| Cain City | Rice | Lost Town | ||
| Calcutta | Douglas | Lost Town | Six miles west of Lawrence. | |
| Caldwell | Sumner | Current Town | 1871-Present | Founded in 1871, It was on the Chisholm Trail and became a wild cowtown. People swarmed into the area when land in the Cherokee Strip opened for homesteads. |
| Calista | Kingman | Extinct Town | 1886-1896 1902-1955 |
In 1910, the village was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, at which time it had a money order post office, an express office, general stores, a lumber yard, and a population of 75. It was nine miles west of Kingman. |
| Calhoun | Cheyenne | Lost Town | 1886-1888 | |
| Calhoun | Jackson | Lost Town | 1856-1858 | |
| Calhoun | Shawnee | Lost Town | A pro-slavery settlement, it was incorporated in 1855. It was located on the north side of the Kansas River near the Jefferson County line. | |
| California | Coffey | Paper Town | None | This place was located on Benedict Creek in the spring of 1858. However, no buildings were ever erected there. |
| California, Lucretia | Lane | Lost Town | Established 1879. The name changed to Lucretia. | |
| Callison | Graham | Lost Town | ||
| Calmar | McPherson | Lost Town | 1871-1880 | |
| Cambria, New Cambria | Saline | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | ||
| Cambridge | Cowley | Current Town | 1870-Present | |
| Camden, Skiddy | Morris | Ghost Town | On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. The name changed to Skiddy, which is a ghost town today. | |
| Cameron Ferry | Douglas | Lost Place | Operating in 1857 on the Kansas River about two and one-half miles upriver from Lawrence. Hugh Cameron, proprietor. | |
| Camp Alert | Pawnee | Lost Place | It was first called Camp on Pawnee Fork in 1859. Name changed to Camp Alert, 1860; changed to Fort Larned, 1860; abandoned in 1878. | |
| Camp Bateman | Leavenworth | Lost Place | Temporary camp near Fort Leavenworth, 1857. | |
| Camp Beecher, Camp Butterfield, Camp Davidson. | Sedgwick | Lost Place | Located where Wichita now stands. | |
| Camp Center | Riley | Name change | Established in 1852, this was the first name of Fort Riley. | |
| Camp Cooke | Leavenworth | Lost Place | Temporary camp near Leavenworth, July 1857. | |
| Camp Crawford | Shawnee | Lost Place | Recruiting camp for Nineteenth Kansas, 1868, near Topeka. | |
| Camp Creek | Coffey | Lost Town | 1857-1865 | |
| Camp Creek | Osage | Lost Place | 1873-1874 | |
| Camp Criley | Pawnee | Lost Place | Railway camp near Garfield. | |
| Camp Funston | Riley | Lost Place | Camp Funston was established at Fort Riley, Kansas, after the outbreak of World War I, and work began on the camp in the summer of 1917. | |
| Camp Jewell, Fort Jewell | Jewell | Lost Place | ||
| Camp Lark | Comanche | |||
| Camp Leedy | Shawnee | Lost Place | Established in 1898 in Topeka. This was a recruiting camp for Kansas troops during the Spanish- American War. | |
| Camp Magruder | Leavenworth | Lost Place | A temporary camp for Utah recruits was established in 1860. It was near Fort Leavenworth. | |
| Camp on Pawnee Fork | Pawnee | Lost Place | Camp on Pawnee Fork, 1859. Name changed to Camp Alert, 1860; changed to Fort Larned, 1860; abandoned in 1878. | |
| Camp Pond Creek | Wallace | Name change. | Later, Fort Wallace. | |
| Camp Sackett | Douglas | Lost Place | ||
| Camp Sanger | Geary | Lost Place | At or near Fort Riley. | |
| Camp Scott | Bourbon | Name change. | Changed to Fort Scott in 1843. | |
| Camp Thompson | Leavenworth | Lost Place | Established in 1858, this was a temporary camp near Fort Leavenworth. | |
| Campbellton | Johnson | Lost Town | Near Glenwood. | |
| Campus | Gove | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | ||
| Canaan | Chase | Lost Town | 1879-1880 | |
| Canema | Barber | Lost Town | 1882-1894 | |
| Canema | Shawnee | Lost Town | ||
| Caney | Montgomery | Current Town | 1870-Present | Named for canebrakes that grew nearby when the town was founded in 1871. |
| Canola | Elk | Lost Town | 1872-1879 | Founded in 1871, the post office moved to Grenola in 1879, of which town it is now part. |
| Canton | Anderson | Lost Town | 1858-1866 | Canton was located and surveyed in 1857 by B. Tyler as a rival to Garnett. |
| Canton | McPherson | Current Town | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
| Canton | Riley | Lost Town | At or near Manhattan. | |
| Cantonment Leavenworth | Leavenworth | Name change | Post office It was established in May 1828, in Clay County, Missouri; it changed to Fort Leavenworth in 1832. | |
| Cantonment Martin, Cow Island | Atchison | Lost Place | A military post was established in October 1818. | |
| Canville | Neosho | Lost Town | 1866-1872 | Trading post near Shawnee in 1844. |
| Canyon | Finney | .Lost Town | 1904-1909 | A small hamlet situated in the valley of the north fork of the Pawnee River, about 25 miles northeast of Garden City. When the post office closed, mail was delivered by rural delivery from Ravanna. |
| Capaldo | Crawford | Lost Town | NA | Capaldo was a mining camp located two miles west of Frontenac. |
| Capioma | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1857-1906 | Capioma was established in 1856 on the Fort Leavenworth and Fort Laramie Military Road. Named for a Kickapoo Indian chief. David Magill, first postmaster. |
| Caples’ Landing | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | It was established in 1846 in present Amazonia, Missouri. Charles and William Caples, proprietors. They platted a village named Nodaway City in 1849. |
| Capto Station | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
| Carbon | Crawford | Lost Town | ||
| Carbon | Jackson | Lost Town | 1874-1880 | |
| Carbondale | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1856-1858 | The post office moved to Osage. |
| Carbondale | Osage | Current Town | 1869-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Carden | Marshall | Lost Town | 1903-1923 | It was founded in about 1902 on the farm of Mrs. Ottilia Carden, for whom the town was named. |
| Cariboo | Butler | Lost Town | 1873-1889 | In Milton Township. |
| Carietna | Barber | Lost Town | ||
| Carl | Jackson | Lost Town | 1893-1907 | Carl was located 12 miles west of Holton. After the post office closed, it received its mail from Soldier by rural route. The population in 1910 was 21. |
| Carlisle | Hamilton | Lost Town | East of Syracuse. | |
| Carlyle | Allen | Extinct Town | 1859-1988 | In 1857, a small colony from Indiana settled here. |
| Carlyle | Logan | None | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | |
| Carlyle | Wallace | Name Change | Changed to Cleaveland. | |
| Carlton | Dickinson | Extinct Town | 1872-1995 | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, it is located in the Holland Creek Valley, about 18 miles southwest of Abilene. |
| Carmel | Cloud | Lost Town | 1873-1886 1887-1894 |
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| Carmen | Meade | Lost Town | ||
| Carmi | Pratt | Lost Town | Established 1879. | |
| Carneiro | Ellsworth | Ghost Town | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | |
| Carntyne | Kingman | Lost Town | 1883-1887 | |
| Carona | Cherokee | A small town outside Pittsburg settled by the Viettis from Turino, Italy. | ||
| Carroll | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1887-1903 | A small community located 12 miles southeast of Eureka and 10 miles west of Toronto. |
| Carson/Sawin’s Store | Brown | Lost Town | 1857-1898 | Town laid out by D. McFarland and others in 1856. The name changed from Sawin’s Store to Carson in 1857. Carson It was the first post office established in Walnut Township, and M. L. Swain It was the first postmaster. |
| Carter | Washington | Name Change | Changed to Brown Rock. | |
| Carter Creek | Clay | Lost Town | ||
| Carter’s Springs | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
| Carthage | Meade | Lost Town | ||
| Carthage | Shawnee | Lost Town | None | Founded by W. B. Stith in 1857. |
| Carville | Labette | Lost Town | ||
| Carwood | Lost Town | 1889-1916 | ||
| Casca | Cowley | Lost Town | 1872-1873 | |
| Cascade | Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
| Cash City | Clark | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
| Cassoday | Butler | Current Town | 1906-Present | |
| Casper | ||||
| Cassoday | Stafford | Probably the present town of Macksville, it was known before its founding as Cassoday. It was just north of Macksville. | ||
| Castle Rock | Gove | Lost Town | Named by Lieutenant J. R. Fitch, surveyor for the Butterfield stage line. He thought the rocks in the area looked like a group of English castles. | |
| Castle Rock | Trego | Lost Town | ||
| Castle Rock Creek Station | Lost Place | Station on the Butterfield Trail. | ||
| Castleton | Reno | Ghost Town | 1872-1957 | Located 12 miles north of Hutchison. It still has several homes in the area, grain elevators, an active church, and named streets. |
| Catharine | Ellis | Current Town | Catharine was founded by five German-Russian families led by Friedrich Karlin in 1876. Initial immigrants were all Catholic Germans from the Volga River Region of Russia. It was named after Queen Catherine, empress of Russia. It is approximately five miles from Hays. |
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| Catholic Mission | Neosho | Name Change | Post office 1851. The name changed to Osage Mission, now St. Paul. | |
| Cato | Crawford | Extinct Town | 1867-1905 | Cato, Kansas, was the oldest town in Crawford County. Located between Frontenac and Fort Scott. |
| Cave Spring | Butler | Lost Town | 1874-1878 | Station on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. |
| Cave Springs-Montrose | Elk | Lost Town | 1879-1903 | Began as a health resort. The name changed from Montrose to Cave Springs in May 1882. in 1910, it was described as an inland hamlet of Elk County, nine miles northeast of Howard. |
| Cawker City | Mitchell | Current Town | 1870-Present | |
| Cayuga | Atchison | Lost Town | ||
| Cedar | McPherson | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | |
| Cedar | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Cedar/Cedarville | Smith | Current Town | First called Cedarville, it changed to Cedar. | |
| Cedar Bluff | Anderson | Lost Town | One-half mile southeast of Garnett. | |
| Cedar Bluff | Ellsworth | ?? | Now Wilson. | |
| Cedar Bluff | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Cedar Bluff | Decatur | |||
| Cedar Creek | Cowley | Lost Town | 1875-1878 | |
| Cedar Creek Bridge | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | The bridge operated in 1865 on White Cloud and Highland Road at Hewlett’s Crossing. |
| Cedar Falls | Jefferson | |||
| Cedar Falls | Lincoln | |||
| Cedar Falls | Marshall | Lost Town | None | It was located 2.5 miles northwest of Waterville on the Little Blue River. |
| Cedar Ford | Butler | Lost Town | 1877-1893 | In Rock Creek Township. The post office moved from Britton. |
| Cedar Grove | Chase | Lost Place | None | In 1872, It was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Cedar Grove | Geary | Lost Town | Post office 1859 | |
| Cedar Junction | Johnson | Lost Town | 1877-1919 | It was located on the south bank of the Kansas River about 19 miles southwest of Kansas City. |
| Cedar Point/Cottonwood Valley | Chase | Current Town | The name changed from Cottonwood Valley. | |
| Cedar Point | Geary | Lost Town | On Clark’s Creek, 1858. | |
| Cedar Point | Neosho | Lost Town | ||
| Cedar Vale | Chautauqua | Current Town | 1870-Present | |
| Cedron | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1871-1911 | Located in Cedron Township on the headwaters of Spillman Creek and about 20 miles northwest of Lincoln. Lucas, on the Union Pacific Railroad, was the nearest railroad station. |
| Ceila or Celia | Wabaunsee | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | ||
| Celia | Gove | Lost Town | ||
| Celia | Rawlins | Lost Town | Buildings moved four miles west to McDonald in 1888, vacated in 1889. | |
| Centennial | Sumner | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | It was five miles north and four miles west of Caldwell at 120th St. South and Milan Road. |
| Center | Crawford | Lost Town | Near Girard, 1867, | |
| Center City | Chautauqua | Lost Town | When the railroad moved, the town died. | |
| Center Grove | Shawnee | Lost Town | ||
| Center Hill | Riley | Lost Town | 1903-1904 | |
| Center Mound | Republic | Lost Town | ||
| Center Ridge | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Centerville | Anderson | Current Town | 1855-Present | |
| Centerville | Dickinson | Lost Town | ||
| Centerville | Jefferson | Name Change | None | Centerville It was laid out in 1865, about midway between Perry and Medina. |
| Centerville | Leavenworth | Lost Town | ||
| Centerville | Osborne | Lost Town | Established 1873. | |
| Centerville | Wilson | Lost Town | ||
| Central City | Anderson | Lost Town | ||
| Central City | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1858-1863 | Central City It was laid out in 1855 by William Dodge southeast of Baker’s Ford. Its first postmaster was Hiram H. Lanham. |
| Central Grove | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1871 | The post office was only open for a month. |
| Centralia | Nemaha | Current Town | One and a half miles north of the present town of that name, located in 1858; plat recorded May 30. 1860. It was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. | |
| Centre | Reno | Lost Town | 1873-1886 | The post office moved to Partridge. |
| Centre Mound | Republic | Lost Town | 1874-1880 | The post office moved to Harbine. |
| Centreville | Linn | Lost Town | Centreville Seminary and Town. Squatters from Missouri followed Big Sugar Creek west to the site in the winter of 1853-1854. Pro-slavery sentiments prevailed. | |
| Centropolis | Franklin | Extinct Town | 1858-1859 1863 1865-1930 |
It still has several buildings, including an active church. |
| Cerro Gordo | Jewell | Name Change | The location changed in 1879. | |
| Chaffee | Rush | Lost Town | 1896-1905 | Located about 8 miles northeast of La Crosse. |
| Chalk, Chalk Mound, Exonville | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
| Chalk Bluffs | Gove | Lost Town | On the Smoky Hill River. | |
| Chalk Mound | Wabaunsee | |||
| Chalk Pyramids | Gove | |||
| Challacombe | Greenwood | Lost Town | Chartered 1870. | |
| Challacombe | Ness | Lost Town | ||
| Challender’s | Shawnee | Lost Town | ||
| Chandler | Douglas | Lost Town | ||
| Chandler | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Chantilly | Kearny | Lost Town | Located in April 1887 and abandoned in 1888, houses were moved to the new town site of Omaha. | |
| Chanute | Neosho | Current Town | 1870-Present | Chanute resulted from merging several towns and substituting Chanute for six other names: Alliance, Osage City, Tioga, Chicago, Chicago Junction, and New Chicago. It was a terminal for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. The town was named after Octavius Chanute, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad promoter. |
| Chaplin | Elk | Lost Town | 1890-1903 | An inland hamlet, its population in 1910 was 36. It was located about eight miles southwest of Howard, from which it received its mail after its post office closed. The nearest railroad station was in Grenola, about about miles south on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Chapman/Chapman Creek Station | Dickinson | Current Town | 1866-Present | On the Smoky Hill Trail. Now Chapman. |
| Chapman’s Creek Bridge | Dickinson | Lost Place | NA | Built in 1859 on the Smoky Hill Trail near the mouth of Chapman’s Creek. Erected by U.S. Government. |
| Chapman’s – See Whitfield | Shawnee | Lost Town | A voting precinct in 1854. | |
| Chard | Nemaha | Lost Town | ||
| Chard | Neosho | Lost Town | 1879-1888 | |
| Charity | Clay | Lost Town | 1882-1893 | |
| Charleston/Charlestown | Doniphan | Lost Town | 1857-1860 1866-1867 |
A town company founded Charlestown in 1857. Michael Byrd was the first postmaster. At one point, it had 15-20 houses and several stores. |
| Charleston | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1873-1884 | The post office moved from Fall River. |
| Charleston | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | Post office 1859. | |
| Charleston | Washington | Lost Town | Chartered in 1858. | |
| Charlotteville | Coffey | Lost Town | Incorporated in 1857. | |
| Chase | Rice | Current Town | 1881-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Chase Center | Chase | Lost Place | None | This site was laid off in 1859. It was the same as Stephen M. Wood Ranch in 1887. |
| Chase County | Chase | Current County | NA | Formed from Butler and Morris Counties in 1859. The county seat is Cottonwood Falls. |
| Chautauqua | Chautauqua | Current Town | 1881-Present | |
| Chautauqua County | Chautauqua | Current County | NA | Formed from Howard County in 1875. The county seat is Sedan. |
| Chautauqua Springs | Chautauqua | |||
| Checo | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1868-1877 | Checo |
| Cheeseman | Norton | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
| Cheever | Dickinson | Lost Town | ||
| Chelsea | Butler | Lost Town | 1858-1907 | In Chelsea Township, It was on a branch of the Walnut River about eight miles northeast of Eldorado. George T. Donaldson was the first postmaster. The site is under El Dorado Lake today. |
| Cheshire | Morris | Lost Town | 1881-1887 | |
| Chemung | Franklin | Lost Town | East of Princeton. | |
| Cheney | Sedgwick | Current Town | 1876-Present | |
| Chenola | Ellis | Lost Town | Founded in 1888 and destroyed in 1905 to build Antonino six miles away. | |
| Chepstow | Washington | Lost Town | Chepstow It was located in Lincoln Township. Nothing left but a cemetery. | |
| Cherokee | Chase | Paper Town | None | The Cherokee Town Company was incorporated in February 1857 by pro-slavery men from Leavenworth County and Lecompton, Kansas. No location. It was named. It was probably a paper town only. |
| Cherokee | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1883-1885 | |
| Cherokee | Crawford | Current Town | 1870-Present | |
| Cherokee | Wise | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857 | |
| Cherokee City | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1860-1862 1867-1870 |
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| Cherokee County | Cherokee | Current County | NA | One of the original 36 counties, It was formed in 1855. It was first called McGee County. The county seat is Columbus. |
| Cherokee Mound | Cherokee | 1869-1870 | ||
| Cherry | Cherokee | 1882-1895 | The post office moved to Mineral. | |
| Cherry Creek | Anderson | Lost Town | 1861-1867 | |
| Cherry Creek | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Cherry Mound | Anderson | Lost Town | 1875-1882 | |
| Cherry Vale | Montgomery | Current Town | 1870-Present | Founded in 1871 by the Kansas City, Leavenworth, and Southern Kansas Railroad in the Cherry Creek Valley. The town was first named Cherryville, then Cherry Vale, and then Cherryvale. |
| Cherryville | Labette | Lost Town | Chartered 1869. | |
| Chester | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1868-1902 | Chester had the first post office in Sarcoxie Township soon after the area was settled. |
| Chetolah | Ellis | Lost Town | 1888-1897 | Chetolah got its start in 1886 as a potential railroad town. However, the railroad didn’t come through. The Palatine post office was moved to Chetolah in 1888. |
| Chetola, Chetolah | Geary | Lost Town | Established in 1855 north of Wreford, at the mouth of Lyons Creek. | |
| Chetopa | Labette | Current Town | 1867-Present | Founded in 1857 on land once occupied by an Osage Indian village and named for Chetopa, an Osage chief. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. |
| Cheever | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1873-1885 | |
| Cheyenne | Osborne | Lost Town | ||
| Cheyenne Bend | Barton | Lost Town | ||
| Cheyenne Bottom | Barton | Lost Town | 1875-1877 | |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Current County | NA | Established in 1873 from unorganized area. St. Francis is the county seat. |
| Chicago | Sheridan | Lost Town | ||
| Chicago Heights | Shawnee | Lost Town | North of Topeka | |
| Chicago Junction | Neosho | Lost Town | Now part of Chanute. | |
| Chicago Mound | Lyon | Lost Town | None | Chicago Mound was a small town located five miles southeast of Emporia. There was a church here, but it was gone by 1915. All that remains is the cemetery. |
| Chickasaw | Coffey | Paper Town | None |
Started in 1857 by parties in Louisville, Kentucky, as a rival to Hampden. Its location was a mile east of Hampden. It was purely a paper town, no improvements ever having been made there. |
| Chickaskia | Sumner | Lost Town | 1871-1886 | It was eight miles north and four miles west of Caldwell at 70th Street South along the Chikaskia River. |
| Chicken Creek Crossing | Lyon | Lost Place | On the Santa Fe Trail. There were two fords here. Waushara post office established one mile east 1858-95, Minor Palmer, postmaster. Also called Prairie Chicken Crossing. | |
| Chico – Wee Checo | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
| Chico/Bridge | Saline | Lost Town | 1877-1897 | The name changed from Bridge to Chico on April 27, 1886. |
| Chicopee | Crawford | Extinct Town | 1892-1918 | Chicopee was a coal mining community. |
| Child’s Acres | ||||
| Chillicothe | Phillips | Name Change | The name changed to Big Bend. | |
| Chillicothie | Johnson??? | |||
| Chillocco | Cowley | Lost Town | 1886-1887 | |
| Chingawasa Springs Resort, Carter’s Mineral Springs | Marion | Lost Place | None | Chingawasa Springs, in the northeastern part of Marion County, was once named Carter’s Mineral Springs. |
| Chouteau | Johnson | Lost Town | 1881-1903 | Once a Johnson County hamlet, it started as a trading post along the Kansas River. Later It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Chouteau’s Ferry | Johnson | Lost Place | Established in 1840 on the Kansas River at Chouteau. Frederick Chouteau, Proprietor. | |
| Chouteau Island | Kearny | Lost Place | Arkansas River; station on the Santa Fe Trail. | |
| Christian | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Christiana | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1872-1873 1874-1876 |
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| Christopher | Reno | Lost Town | 1882-1892 | |
| Churchill | Ottawa | Lost Town | Located near Tescott. Thomas Bartlett Sears came to Kansas after service in the Civil War. He had a post office in his home and named it Churchhill. |
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| Cicero | Sumner | Lost Town | 1883-1934 | It was five miles north and 2.5 miles east of Wellington on 50th Ave North along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Cimarron | Gray | Current Town | County seat. In the 1830s, the Middle Cimarron Crossing of the Arkansas River was where the Santa Fe Trail headed toward the Cimarron River. It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in 1872. | |
| Cincinnati | Leavenworth | Lost Town | Established in 1857 near Fort Leavenworth. | |
| Cincinnati | Grant | Name Change | The name changed to Appomattox, which is also a lost town today. | |
| Circleville | Jackson | Current Town | 1861-Present | |
| Cisne | Sumner | Lost Town | 1881-1884 | The post office moved from Glen Valley. When it closed in Cisne, it moved to Northfield. It was two miles west and a mile and a half south of Conway Springs at 700 N. Milan Road. |
| City Point | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | ||
| Claim | Kingman | Lost Town | 1884-1887 | |
| Claflin | Barton | Current Town | ||
| Claymore | Montgomery | Lost Town | None | Named in honor of an Osage chief, Claymore was laid out in the winter of 1868-69 at the site of Lushbaugh’s trading post by a town company, of which G. L. Canada was chairman and Alexander Duncan was secretary. For a time, the town grew rapidly and reached a population of about 100. However, It was short-lived, and by the spring of 1869, it had died out. |
| Clare | Johnson | Lost Town | 1899-1913 | Five miles southwest of Olathe, this town was first called Wainwright. |
| Clarence | Barton | Lost Town | 1874-1887 | The post office moved to Bartholdi in February 1887. |
| Clarence | Cowley | Lost Town | 1872 | The post office moved to Maple City. |
| Clarinda | Ness | Lost Town | ||
| Clarion | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1871-1885 | Clarion was in the center of Lincoln Township. |
| Clark | Wilson | Lost Town | 1869-1871 | |
| Clark | Clark | Current County | NA | Formed from Ford County in 1885. Ashland is the county seat. |
| Clarksburg | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1880-1900 | A coal mining company established a station switch here in 1871. The village of Clarksburg grew up around it. |
| Clarkson | Riley | Lost Town | 1889-1892 | |
| Clarksville | Johnson | Lost Town | ||
| Claudell | Smith | Named for a pioneer family. | ||
| Clawson | Finney | Lost Town | 1886-1888 | Clarance F. Parker started Clawson in about 1875. It had a store, and he was the postmaster. It was located about 7.5 miles east of Ravanna along the Pawnee River. |
| Clawson | Hodgeman | Lost Town | ||
| Clay | Clay | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1857. Clay Center is the county seat. |
| Clay Center | Clay | Current Town | ||
| Clay Center | Butler | |||
| Clay Center | Clay | Founded in 1862, the seat of Clay County in 1866; the railroad reached Clay Center in 1873. | ||
| Claymore, Clymore, Tally Springs | Montgomery | Lost Town | Established in 1867. Post office 1868. | |
| Clayton | Norton | Ghost Town | -2005 | The post office closed on July 2, 2005. |
| Clayton | Decatur | Current Town | ||
| Claytonville | Brown | Lost Town | 1857-1882 | Laid out in November 1856 by George E. Clayton and others on a townsite of 320 acres. Once county seat. |
| Clear Creek | Ellsworth | Lost Place | None | Stage Station on the Smoky Hill Trail. |
| Clear Creek | Marion | Lost Town | 1867 | |
| Clear Creek | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1858-1860 1870-1890 |
An area post office. |
| Clear Creek | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | Post office 1859 | |
| Clear Dale | Sumner | Lost Town | 1877-1900 | It was seven miles west and a half miles north of Geuda Springs at 120th St. South and Oliver Road. |
| Clear Fork Crossing | Marshall | Lost Place | NA | The crossing of the Black Vermillion River in 1857. E.F. Jones, proprietor. Perhaps an alternate route for the Parallel Road in 1859. A cabin It was still standing in 1956. LaGrange post office was established in 1875-1901, with Jones as the first postmaster. |
| Clearwater | Sedgwick | Current Town | 1871-Present | Near the old Chisholm Trail. The name was translated from the Indian word Ninnescah. |
| Cleaveland | Wallace | Lost Town | Formerly Carlyle. | |
| Cleburne | Riley | Lost Town | 1886-1960 | One of Riley County’s river towns, Cleburne, was located in Swede Township. It was razed when Tuttle Creek Dam was built. |
| Clements/Crawfordsville | Chase | Ghost Town | 1881-1988 | Clements, Kansas, in western Chase County, was first called Crawfordsville. |
| Clementville | Leavenworth | Lost Town | ||
| Cleo | Brown | Lost Town | 1885-1897 | |
| Cleveland | Butler | Lost Town | ||
| Cleveland | Kingman | Extinct Town | 1880-1957 | Today, this unincorporated community is called home to only a handful of people, the grain elevators, and a few scattered homes. |
| Clifford | Smith | Name change | The name changed to Carvil in 1903. | |
| Clifton | Clay | |||
| Clifton | Washington | Current Town | On the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. The station’s name was Vining. | |
| Clifton | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Climax | Greenwood | Ghost Town | 1870-1989 | On the Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The post office closed on January 7, 1989. |
| Clinton | Douglas | Current Town | 1855-1927 | Clinton Reservoir drowned part of Clinton. The post office closed on November 27, 1927. |
| Clonmel | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1905-1938 | |
| Cloud | Cherokee | Name change | The name changed to Bero. | |
| Cloud | Cloud | Lost Town | 1881 | The post office was only open from May to December 1881. |
| Cloud County | Cloud | Current County | NA | Formed from Washington County in 1866. First called Shirley County. Concordia is the county seat. |
| Clovet | ||||
| Cloydville | Sumner | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | |
| Clugh | Cheyenne | Lost Town | 1887-1893 1901-1902 |
The post office moved from Bolton, Colorado. |
| Clyde | Cloud | Current Town | The Honey family purchased the townsite. The first sheriff of the town was Quincy Honey. Jene Honey had a photo shop nearby. Rosella Honey started the first school in Cloud County. It is about 25 miles southwest of Waterville. | |
| Clymore, Claymore, or Tally Springs | Montgomery | Lost Town | Established in 1867. Post office 1868. | |
| Coahooma | Lost Town | Town company It was incorporated in 1857. | ||
| Coal Center | Linn | Lost Town | ||
| Coal Creek | Atchison | Lost Town | Post office 1858. | |
| Coal Creek | Ottawa | Lost Town | ||
| Coal Siding | Franklin | Lost Town | ||
| Coal Switch | Bourbon | Lost Town | ||
| Coalburgh | Linn | Lost Town | 1885-1889 | |
| Coalfield – See Sandfordville. | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
| Coalville or Coleville | Harper | Name change | The name changed to Danville. | |
| Coalvale/Bovard | Crawford | 1880-1907 | ||
| Coats | Pratt | Current Town | 1887-2018 | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The post office closed on February 1, 2018 |
| Cobb | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
| Coburn | Franklin | Lost Town | 1900-1902 | It was ten miles west of Norwood, the nearest railroad station in the northwestern part of the county. |
| Cocayne/Augustine Springs/Poe | Logan | Lost Town | 1886-1888 1888-1895 1895-1920 |
It was located about 22 miles southeast of Russell Springs. |
| Codell | Rooks | Extinct Town | -1995 | Codell’s claim to fame is because tornadoes struck it on the same day (May 20) in three consecutive years — 1916, 1917, and 1918. The post office closed on August 26, 1995. |
| Cofachique | Allen | Lost Town | 1856-1859 | The Bogus Legislature incorporated this town it in 1855. Pro-slavery men laid out the town. It was the Allen County seat from 1855 to 1860. |
| Coffey County | Coffey | Current County | NA | One of the original 36 counties was created in 1855. Burlington is the county seat. |
| Coffeyville | Montgomery | Current Town | 1869-Present | Named after James A. Coffey, who had a trading post at an Osage camp called Talley Springs. In October 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville. |
| Cokedale | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1899-1906 | Located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, about six miles northwest of Columbus. |
| Colby | Thomas | Current Town | 1881-Present | The county seat of Thomas County. Joseph R. Colby settled in the area in 1880 and established a post office on his claim. The town was named for him. |
| Cold Spring | Allen | Lost Town | 1861-1862 | |
| Cold Spring | Doniphan | Lost Town | None | Francis Bodart settled a claim in 1856. Pony Express Station 1860. The Cold Spring Branch of Wolf River derived its name from Cold Spring near the Pottawatomie Trail near the present site of Bendena. |
| Coldwater | Comanche | Current Town | 1884-Present | The county seat of Comanche County. |
| Colbert | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1889-1904 | It was a small hamlet on East Elkhorn Creek, about six miles southeast of Lincoln. |
| Coleman | Sedgwick | Names for W. C. Coleman, an industrialist. | ||
| Coleville – See Coalville. | Harper | Lost Town | ||
| Colfax | McPherson | Name Change | The name changed to Roxbury. | |
| Colfax | Wilson | Lost Town | ||
| Collano | Meade | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | ||
| College | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1898-1900 | |
| College Green | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
| Collins | Greenwood | Name Change | 1870-1883 | The name changed to Reece. |
| Collyer | Trego | Current Town | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | |
| Colokan | Greeley | Lost Town | 1886-1892 | Located on the Colorado/Kansas line, It was settled by Civil War veterans from Illinois who formed a soldiers’ colony. |
| Coloma | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Colony | Anderson | Current Town | ||
| Colorado | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1871-1886 | In Colorado Township, the firm of D. Hardesty had a flouring custom mill in operation. |
| Columbia | Lyon | Lost Town | Incorporated in 1855 by the Bogus Legislature. Founded by pro-slavery men from Council Grove. The town It was named for Charles Columbia. On the river three miles below Emporia. | |
| Columbia | Ellsworth | Lost Town | Vacated 1901. | |
| Columbia | Miami | Name Change | Now Hillsdale. | |
| Columbus | Cherokee | Current Town | 1869-Present | County seat. It was known as “the center” as early as 1868 when L. Lee opened a general store on the townsite. It was named for Columbus, Ohio. In 1877, it was on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. |
| Columbus | Doniphan | Lost Town | 1860-1867 | It was laid out in May 1857 but didn’t grow. Henry Wilson, postmaster. |
| Colwich | Sedgwick | Current Town | 1885-Present | |
| Comanche City | Comanche | Lost Town | Vacated 1905. | |
| Comanche County | Comanche | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. The county seat is Coldwater. |
| Comet | Brown | Lost Town | 1881-1894 | The post office moved from Discord. |
| Comingo Springs | Chautauqua | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
| Comiskey | Morris | Lost Town | 1887-1929 | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, It was located on the border with Lyon County. |
| Como | Anderson | Lost Town | 1881-1887 | The post office moved to Northcott. |
| Como | Cloud | Lost Town | 1900-1904 | It was located about 7.5 miles east of Aurora. |
| Concord | Ottawa | Lost Town | ||
| Concord | Sumner | Lost Town | 1879-1902 | Concord It was about ten miles south of Wellington and two miles southeast of Rome, the nearest railroad station. |
| Concordia | Cloud | Current Town | County seat. The town began in 1864 when J. M. Hageman selected the townsite. | |
| Condeley | Riley | Lost Town | ||
| Conductor | Grant | Lost Town | None | Settled in 1893. Also called Conductor City, the town was located southeast of Ulysses, right up against the county line. |
| Conductor | Haskell | Lost Town | ||
| Coneburg | Marion | Name Change | Became North Peabody in 1871. | |
| Conkling | Pawnee | Lost Town | 1881-1895 | |
| Connors | Wyandotte | Lost Town | None | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, 12 miles northwest of Wyandotte. In the early 1880s, it had several stores, a schoolhouse where religious services were held, and a small hotel. |
| Connersville | Decatur | Lost Town | ||
| Conquest | Wichita | Lost Town | ||
| Conrotin | Geary | Lost Town | ||
| Constant/Hackney | Cowley | Extinct Town | 1871-1872 1880-1924 |
The name changed from Constant to Hackney on March 31, 1894. It was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in Pleasant Valley Township, six miles south of Winfield. |
| Conway | Linn | Lost Town | Near Sugar Mound | |
| Conway | McPherson | Lost Town | 1880-1983 | In southwestern Jackson Township, Conway was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Conway Springs | Sumner | Current Town | 1878-Present | |
| Cook’s Ford, Cook’s Fork, Cook’s Ferry | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1865-1872 | Cook’s Ferry It was established on the Kansas River in 1859. W. W. Cook, proprietor. Butterfield Overland Despatch stage route? |
| Cool | Cloud | Lost Town | 1881-1887 | |
| Coolidge | Hamilton | Current Town | 1873-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Coon Hollow Crossing | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | Established in about 1844 on the St. Joseph & California Road. This rock-bottom ford was probably the earliest emigrant trail from Mosquito Creek to the top of Wolf River Ridge. |
| Coopersburg | Rice | Lost Town | ||
| Coopersville | Clark | Named for Dr. John Cooper, a pioneer. | ||
| Cope | Jackson | Lost Town | 1877-1887 | |
| Copeland | Gray | Current Town | 1912-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Corbin/Hurst | Sumner | Ghost Town | 1881-1974 | A ghost town in Falls Township, it is 13 miles southwest of Wellington. |
| Corbitt or Corbett | Ford | Lost Town | 1885-1887 | Corbitt was located on the Cannonball Stage Route from Wichita, just two miles north of Bucklin. Only 3-4 homes were built there when the railroad went to Bucklin. |
| Corinth | Osborne | Lost Town | It was on the south side of the Solomon River. Located about nine miles due east of Osborne on Highway 181. | |
| Cornhil | Butler | Lost Town | 1874-1876 | |
| Corning | Nemaha | Current Town | -1997 | On the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The post office closed on June 14, 1997. |
| Cornwall | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
| Corona | Coffey | Lost Town | 1870-1878 | |
| Coronado | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1877-1882 | |
| Coronado | Wichita | Lost Town | Town moved three miles to Leoti. | |
| Cortez | Graham | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
| Corvallis | Smith | Lost Town | Located in 1875 and abandoned in 1888. | |
| Corwin | Harper | Lost Town | 1883-1957 | Oscar A. Corwin, first postmaster. The post office closed on June 28, 1957. |
| Corydon | Chase | Paper Town | None | Corydon It was incorporated in 1858, but no location was given. Probably a paper town only. |
| Coss | Brown | Lost Town | 1885-1887 | |
| Costello | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1887-1908 | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, It was six miles north of Elk City. |
| Cottage Grove | Allen | Lost Town | A voting precinct in 1858. | |
| Cottage Hill | Marshall | Lost Town | None | Cottage Hill was laid out before 1872 but never had a post office. |
| Cottonwood | Chase | Lost Town | Across the river from Cottonwood Falls. | |
| Cottonwood | Lyon | Lost Town | ||
| Cottonwood Crossing/Moore’s Ranch | Marion | Lost Place | 1860-1866 | Moore’s Ranch post office. On the Santa Fe Trail near Durham, 12 miles west of Lost Springs. A hotel or stage station it was noted on the Bureau of Land Management Surveys in about 1860. |
| Cottonwood Falls | Chase | Current Town | County seat. Founded in 1858 by a group of titled Englishmen. | |
| Cottonwood Grove | Reno | Lost Town | 1877-1881 | The post office moved to Turon. |
| Cottonwood Grove | Shawnee | Name Change | Now Pauline. | |
| Cottonwood Ranche | Chase | Lost Place | None | A stock ranch, It was established in about 1854 at the mouth of Diamond Spring Creek, about three miles northeast of Elmdale. Seth Hays kept it as a branch of his trading post at Council Grove. |
| Cottonwood Springs | Doniphan | Lost Place | None | Charles & Catherine Stewart, proprietors 1855-56. Pony Express Station 1860-61. |
| Cottonwood Station | Marshall | Lost Place | Fifteen miles west of Marysville. | |
| Cottonwood Valley/Cedar Point | Chase | The place name was changed to Cedar Point. | ||
| Council City | Osage | Name Change | Now Burlingame. | |
| Council Grove/Council | Morris | Current Town | County seat. First called Council, then changed to Council Grove. On the Santa Fe Trail. Later on, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. | |
| Coursen’s Grove | Mitchell | Lost Town | ||
| Courtland | Republic | Current Town | ||
| Covert | Osborne | J. M. Bradshaw built the first stone house in Covert in 1879. The town was organized in October 1880 and named after a pioneer. | ||
| Covington | Smith | Lost Town | ||
| Cow Creek | Rice | Lost Place | Station on Santa Fe Trail. | |
| Cow Creek | Ellsworth | Name Change | Now Black Wolf. | |
| Cow Island, Cantonment Martin | Atchison | Lost Place | A military post was established in October 1818. | |
| Cowland/Ravanna | Finney | Lost Town | The town name was changed to Ravanna, and soon after that folded. | |
| Cowley County | Cowley | Current County | NA | Formed from Butler County in 1867. Winfield is the county seat. |
| Cowskin Grove/Waco | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1870-1905 | Indian village. The name changed from Cowskin to Waco on February 25, 1873. |
| Cox Creek | Crawford | Name Change | Now Arcadia. | |
| Coxes Creek | Bourbon | Lost Town | ||
| Coyote | Ellis | Lost Town | 1868 | The post office was only open for about five months. |
| Coyote | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
| Coyote | Trego | Lost Town | Near Collyer. | |
| Coy’s | Wilson | Name Change | Now Coyville | |
| Coyville | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
| Coyville | Wilson | Extinct Town | -2002 | Oscar Coy, store owner and postmaster. Fort Row was near Coyville. On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The post office closed on November 2, 2002. |
| Craig | Johnson | Lost Town | 1899-1902 | A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, seven miles north of Olathe. It was named for the landowner. |
| Crainville | Republic | Lost Town | 1878-1895 | |
| Crane | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1879-1905 | A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad was located six miles north of Independence. |
| Cransdale | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
| Crandall | Coffey | Lost Town | 1888-1906 | |
| Cravensville | Cherokee | Lost Town | Named for the townsite owner | |
| Craventon | McPherson | Lost Town | 1884-1887 | |
| Crawford | Lyon | Lost Town | ||
| Crawford County | Crawford | Current County | NA | Formed from Bourbon and Cherokee Counties in 1867. The county seat is Girard. |
| Crawford Seminary | Cherokee | Lost Place | 1848-1863 | It is believed that Crawford Seminary, a mission for Quapaw Indians, was east of present-day B Baxter Springs. The mission post office was serviced through Missouri. |
| Crawfordville | Crawford | Lost Town | Near Girard, established in 1867; abandoned in 1869; named for Governor Samuel Crawford. | |
| Crawfordsville | Chase | Lost Town | See Hunt’s Station. | |
| Cremona | Neosho | Lost Town | 1869-1878 | |
| Cresco | Anderson | Lost Town | Chartered 1858; abandoned 1860. | |
| Cresco | Elk | Lost Town | 1876-1880 | |
| Cresson | Rooks | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
| Crestline | Cherokee | Current Town | On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. | |
| Cresswell/Adelphi/ Arkansas City |
Cowley | Name Change | 1870-Present | Adelphi and Cresswell were early names of Arkansas City. |
| Creswell | Marion | Lost Town | 1873-1901 | |
| Criple Creek | Marshall | |||
| Crisfield | Harper | |||
| Crittenden | Butler | Lost Town | Founded 1861; abandoned 1865. | |
| Critzer/Montgomery | Linn | Lost Town | 1888-1906 | On the Missouri Pacific Railroad six miles west of Mound City. |
| Croco | Norton | Lost Town | ||
| Crooked Creek | Ford | Lost Town | 1870-1886 | |
| Crooked Creek | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1857-1863 | |
| Crooked Creek | McPherson | Lost Town | 1872-1876 | The post office moved to Christian. |
| Cromwell | Washington | Lost Town | ||
| Cross | Lyon | Name Change | 1870-1871 | Now Neosho Rapids. |
| Cross Creek | Shawnee | Name Change | 1864-1868 | Cross Creek Toll Bridge on Oregon/California Trail in 1852. Trading post in 1853. Now Rossville. |
| Crouse | Labette | Lost Town | ||
| Crotty | Coffey | Lost Town | 1887-1906 | |
| Crow | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
| Croweburg | Crawford | Lost Town | 1908-1972 | Croweburg It was a station on the Joplin & Pittsburg electric line. Named for the Crowe Coal Mining Company. |
| Crown Point | Saline | Lost Town | 1879-1892 | |
| Crozier Station | Johnson | Lost Town | ||
| Crystal Plains | Smith | Lost Town | ||
| Crystal Springs | ||||
| Cuba | Republic | Current Town | The first site was three miles from present-day Cuba. | |
| Cullison | Pratt | Current Town | Named for James B. Cullison, a lawyer. On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
| Culver | Ottawa | Current Town | ||
| Cumberland | Thomas | Lost Town | ||
| Cummings | Atchison | Current Town | 1868-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Cundiff | Morton | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
| Curranville | Crawford | Lost Town | 1905-1915 | Curranville, a coal-mining town, it was a station on the Kansas City Southern Railroad. |
| Cunningham | Kingman | Current Town | 1885-Present | |
| Curtis’ Ferry | Riley | Lost Place | This ferry was established in 1858 on Big Blue River north of Manhattan, at the mouth of McIntyre’s Creek. Zach Curtis, proprietor. Unadilla post office was established in 1858-62, with Edward Newell as postmaster. | |
| Custer | Smith | Lost Town | ||
| Cuyler-Eminence | Finney | Lost Town | 1883-1942 | This place was first called Cuyler when a post office opened on May 7, 1883. This village, located in Garfield Township, was located on the Pawnee River, 25 miles northeast of Garden City. The town’s name was changed to Emminence on June 3, 1887. In 1910, it had a money-order post office with one rural route, a good local trade, and a population of 92. It was located about 18 miles north of Charleston, the nearest railroad station. |
| Cypress, Alamead | Lincoln | Lost Town | Also called Allemead. | |
| Cyrus | Trego | Lost Town | 1879-1880 1880-1889 |
First called Williamsville |
| Czech Colony | Ellis | Lost Town | None | A colony of settlers from Bohemia came to Ellis County in 1885 and settled on land south of Ellis along the Trego County line. The town never grew big enough for a post office. |