Every Place in Kansas

Listed here is a working index of every place in Kansas.

Lost Towns/Places – These places no longer exist. While its location may still be known, there is nothing left of the community, stage stop, etc.

Extinct Towns – These communities often still have a few homes and buildings but no longer have a post office.

Ghost Towns – These places are often extinct towns but provide several business buildings, an old school, and interesting buildings or places that provide great photo opportunities. Ghost towns can also be current towns that are shells of their former selves due to losing their primary economic mainstay or other reasons.

Name Change – The community’s name was changed, or the community merged with another.

Paper Town – These places were claimed, sometimes staked out, and never built. Or a town company was incorporated but never followed through.

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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
50 Camp	Crawford	Lost Town	None	This mining camp was located about two miles west of Arma. It was a company town of Central Coal and Coke Company.
110 Station/Crossing	Osage	Lost Place	None	One Hundred Ten Crossing of Santa Fe Trail. McGee-Harris Stage Station 1854, Fry McGee, Proprietor. Town of Richardson platted 1854, a post office 1855-74, Fry McGee, postmaster. Two miles southeast of Scranton.
142 Crossing	Lyon	Lost Place	None	Crossing of Santa Fe Trail. Charles H. Withington had a store in 1856. Allen post office was established 1/2 mile northeast, 1855-56. Located near Road M, four miles north of Allen
Abbyville	Reno	Current Town	1873-Present
Abilene	Dickinson	Current Town	1860-Present	County Seat. The name changed from Mud Creek or Muddy Creek. It was on the Smoky Hill Trail, Chisholm Trail, Kansas Pacific Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, home of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Abram	Lincoln	Lost Town	1872	For a brief time, the county seat. The post office was moved from Rocky Hill on February 26, 1872, and back to Rocky Hill on December 5, 1872.
Abrellville	Sumner	Lost Town		It had a post office for just a few months in 1873, from May to September.
Achilles	Rawlins	Lost Town		Vacated 1903
Ackerland	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1883-1923	Ackerland, a village of Leavenworth County, is located in the western portion of the county on the Leavenworth & Topeka Railroad.
Acme	Dickinson	Lost Town	1897-1906
Akron	Dickinson	Lost Town	1874-1875
Ada	Ottawa	Current Town	-1998	The post office closed on January 3, 1998.
Adair	Trego	Lost Town
Adams Peak	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1870-1884	In the southern part of Shannon Township.
Adamson	Rooks	Lost Town
Adamsville	Sumner	Lost Town	1925-1931	It was located about four miles north of Geuda Springs and a half mile west of the intersection of S Oxford Rd and E 80th St, next to an abandoned railroad.
Adel	Ness	Lost Town
Adel	Sheridan	Lost Town
Adelphi	Cowley	Name Change		One of the early names of Arkansas City
Admire	Lyon	Current Town
Adobe	Seward	Lost Town
Adrian	Jackson	Lost Town	1880-1907	A small hamlet situated on the ridge between Cross and Soldier Creeks. It was about 16 miles southwest of Holton and four miles from Emmett, the nearest railroad station. When the post office closed, it received its mail by rural delivery from Delia.
Advance	Meade			On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Advance	Sheridan	Lost Town
Aeolia	Douglas	Lost Town
Aetna	Barber	Lost Town	1885-1946	It was located near the southwestern corner of the county in Aetna Township,
Agenda	Republic
Afton	Marshall	Lost Town	1893-1898 1900-1901	Afton was located ten miles southwest of Marysville.
Afton	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1874-1886
Agenda	Republic	Current Town	-1998	The post office closed on October 3, 1998.
Agnes City	Lyon	Lost Town	None	Incorporated 1857 by A. J. Baker, E. Mosier, and E. M. Sewell. It was located on the Santa Fe Trail crossing of Rock Creek.
Agra	Phillips	Current Town	1887-Present
Agricola/Hardpan	Coffey	Lost Town	1875-1974	The name changed from Hardpan to Agricola on January 24, 1876.
Aiken	McPherson			On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Ailanthus	Ottawa	Lost Town		Discontinued 1882
Ainsworth	Greeley	Lost Town	1887-1898
Air	Lyon	Lost Town	1880-1900	It was located 3.5 miles north and 1.5 west of Miller.
Akron	Douglas	Lost Town
Aladdin	Douglas	Lost Town
Alamota	Lane	Lost Town		Vacated 1895.
Alamead, Cypress	Lincoln	Lost Town		Also called Allemead and Cypress
Albany	Nemaha	Lost Town	1858-1882	Established by New Yorkers in 1859. The post office was discontinued in 1882. It was two miles north of Sabetha.
Albany	Wilson			On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Albert	Barton	Current Town	1874-Present
Albion	Republic			For a short time was the name of a post office.
Albion	Sumner			Established in Harper County, replacing Gourock. It was located on the very east border; later, it moved across the county line to Sumner County.
Albion/Pike	Wabaunsee			The name changed to Pike, replaced later by a post office named Alta Vista.
Alburtis	Morris	Lost Town	1879-1906	This town was about two miles from the Wabaunsee County line and seven miles from Council Grove.
Alcolia	Greenwood	Lost Town	1874	It was located southwest of Eureka.
Alcona	Rooks
Alcove Springs	Marshall		NA
Alcyone	Sheridan	Lost Town
Alden	Rice	Current Town		It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Alembic	Riley	Lost Town		Also called Alembria, it is now Leonardsville.
Aleppo	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1891-1903	A small hamlet located about 15 miles west of Wichita and five miles northwest of Goddard, which had the most convenient railroad station.
Alert	Riley	Lost Town	1871-1886	Alert was west of Randolph.
Alexander	Douglas	Lost Town
Alexander	Rush	Ghost Town	1874-	Alexander Harvey, postmaster
Alexandria	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1856-1857	Alexander was incorporated in 1855 by the Bogus Legislature. It was a pro-slavery town on Stranger Creek.
Alfred	Douglas	Lost Town	1875-1902
Alicari	Ness	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Alice
Aliceville	Coffey	Ghost Town	1883-1994	Located in Avon Township, it is an interesting ghost town with several buildings, a profitable bank, and an active church.
Allen	Lyon	Current Town
Allen County	Allen	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, Allen County was created in 1855. Iola is the county seat.
Allen Springs	Lane	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Allendale	Allen	Lost Town	1898-1901	A little hamlet situated about five miles northeast of Iola. It is about equally distant from Carlyle on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and La Harpe on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, the nearest railway stations.
Allendale	Johnson	Lost Town	1862-1863
Alliance	Barton	Lost Town		Located northwest of Holyrood, northeast of Claflin.
Alliance	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1881-1895
Alliance	Neosho	Lost Town		Also called Chicago Junction, New Chicago, and Tioga, it is part of Chanute today.
Allington	Crawford	Lost Town
Allison	Decatur			Named for a pioneer.
Alloway	Sumner			G. A. Alloway, townsite owner
Alma	Osage	Lost Town		Vacated 1899.
Alma	Wabaunsee	Current Town	1863-Present	County seat. Founded in 1857, named for a city in Germany from which many of its first settlers had come; located in Alma Township on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Almena	Norton	Current Town		This town grew up around the homestead of James & Mary Brown Hall south of Prairie Dog Creek circa 1871.
Alpha	McPherson	Lost Town	1880-1897
Alta/Valentine	Harvey	Lost Town	1889-1901	The name changed from Valentine to Alta on April 18, 1899.
Alta Vista/Cable City	Wabaunsee	Current Town	1880-Present	Formerly called Albion, it is located in It Washington Township. It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Altamont	Labette	Current Town	1870-Present	Located on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Alton	Atchison	Lost Town		It was three miles east and a mile and a half south of Caldwell at about 1800 S. Mayfield Road.
Alton	Osborne	Current Town		General H. C. Bull from Wisconsin was the first postmaster. He and Lyman T. Earl, town promoters. The name changed from Bull City to Alton for Alton, Illinois.
Alton	Sumner	Lost Town	1872-1881
Altoona	Wilson	Current Town
Alum Creek	Ellsworth	Name Change		Also called Elm Creek, it later became Carneiro.
Alva	Cloud	Lost Town		It had a post office from December 1871 to October 1878. The post office was moved to Jamestown.
Avilda	Marion	Lost Town	1878-1879
Alvin	Marion	Lost Town	1901-1905
Amador	Butler	Lost Town	1875-1902	In Clifford Township.
Amber	Barber	Lost Town	1883-1899
Amboy	Rooks	Lost Town
Amherst	Russell	Lost Town	1886-1887
America City	Nemaha	Lost Town	1860-1932	This place was established on the Parallel Road from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, on the Red Vermillion River.
Americus	Lyon	Current Town	1857-Present	Located north of Emporia, it was named for the “celebrated explorer Americus Vespucci. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Ames	Cloud		-1993	The post office closed on January 30, 1993.
Amiot/Mineral Point	Anderson	Lost Town	1887-1951	This settlement was first called Mineral Point on account of a mound supposed to contain minerals.
Amity	Jewell	Lost Town
Amy	Lane
Andale	Sedgwick	Current Town	1880-Present
Anderson	Pratt	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Anderson	Smith	Lost Town
Anderson County	Anderson	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, Anderson County, was created in 1855. Garnett is the county seat.
Andover	Butler	Current Town	1877-Present	On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Andrew	Smith	Lost Town
Annelly	Harvey	Lost Town	1885-1921	Located in Richland Township, it was a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, nine miles southeast of Newton. In 1910, it had a money order post office, a grain elevator, a hotel, a general store, and did some shipping. The population at that time was 25.
Anness	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1887-1952	Founded in the 1880s by W.H. Wilson when the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad began to be built.
Anson	Sumner	Extinct Town	1887-1958	Anson was situated on the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Sumner Township, about ten miles northwest of Wellington.
Antelope	Marion	Lost Town	-1988	A place on the Santa Fe Trail where antelope were seen. The post office closed on June 20, 1988.
Anthony	Harper	Current Town	1878-Present	The county seat of Harper County; is 50 miles west of Arkansas City.
Antioch	Osage	Lost Town	1883-1885	The post office moved from Eclipse.
Antone	Pawnee	Lost Town	1879-1883
Antonino	Ellis	Ghost Town		Located south of Hays;
Appanoose	Franklin	Lost Town	1857-1860 1870-1902	Located in the north part of the county.
Appin	Saline	Lost Town	1873-1875
Appleton	Bourbon	Lost Town	1867-1875	It was established in 1866 by Captain Stevens near the state line between Kansas and Missouri. At one point, it had a post office, three stores, and a blacksmith shop.
Appleton	Clark	Lost Town
Appomattox	Grant	Lost Town	1890-1894	Vacated 1893. Formed by the consolidation of Cincinnati and Surprise.
Aral	Butler	Lost Town	1880-1902	A little hamlet in Pleasant Township about 20 miles southwest of Eldorado and three miles from Rose Hill
Arapahoe	Dickinson	Lost Town
Arcadia	Crawford	Current Town	1866-Present	It was known as Hathaway, Cox’s Creek, OldArcadia, Finley City, and present Arcadia.
Arcola	Ellsworth	Lost Town	None
Arcola	Sumner	Lost Town
Argentine	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1881-1903	Annexed to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1910.
Argonia	Sumner	Current Town	1881-Present	Argonia had the “first woman mayor in the world” — Susana Medora Salter, in 1887.
Argyle	Sumner	Lost Town	1874-1881
Arion	Cloud	Lost Town		It had a post office from April 1875 to July 1883.
Arispie	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1871-1903	Located in Greene Township, it was located nine miles east of Westmoreland.
Arizon/Arizonia	Doniphan	Lost Town	None	Platted on March 1, 1856, near the intersection of Smith’s Creek road and road from Belmont/St. Joseph ferries.
Arizona	Butler	Lost Town
Arkalon	Seward	Lost Town		On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1888. It was named for Arkalon Tenny, the father of the postmaster.
Arkansas City	Cowley	Current Town	1870-Present	Founded in January 1870. During the 1880s gold rush, mining operations did not prove profitable. In August 1893, over 50,000 people swarmed into the Arkansas City area when land in Cherokee Strip opened for homesteads.
Arkansas River	Barton	Lost Town		This was a station on Santa Fe Trail one-half mile west of Ellinwood.
Arkona	Sheridan	Lost Town
Arlington	Osborne	Lost Town		Discontinued 1872.
Arlington	Reno	Current Town	1878-Present	On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 1887
Arma	Crawford	Current Town	1891-Present	Named for a coal miner and land owner.
Armstrong	Wyandotte	Lost Town	1874-1888	Part of Kansas City, Kansas, consolidated in 1886.
Armourdale	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1882-1891	Consolidated with Kansas City in 1886.
Armstrong	Leavenworth			On the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Army City	Riley	Lost Town	1918-1922	Army City was built in 1917 to satisfy the needs of Camp Funston on the Fort Riley, Kansas military reservation.
Arnold	Brown	Lost Town	1897-1898
Arnold/Ingleton	Crawford	Lost Town	1871-1872	The name was changed from Arnold to Ingleton on February 26, 1872.
Arnold	Ness	Ghost Town	1904-2006	Named for J. G. Arnold, a grain elevator owner. The post office closed on August 26, 2006.
Aroma	Dickinson	Lost Town	1869-1888	The post office moved from Far West.
Arrington	Atchison	Lost Town	1862-1973	Also called Arrington Springs, it was a settlement located in the southwestern part of Atchison County on the Delaware River.
Artesian City	Meade	Lost Town		Vacated 1893
Arthur	Ness	Lost Town
Artois	Meade	Lost Town
Arvonia	Osage	Lost Town	1869-1901	A Welsh population settlement, it was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Ash Grove	Lincoln	Lost Town	1916-1944	An old church and school still stand at 80th and Union Road.
Ash Point	Marshall	Lost Town	None	Ash Point was a stage station on the Overland Trail between Seneca and Guittard Station. It was located a few miles north of where Axtell now stands.
Ash Point/Laramie Creek Station	Nemaha	Lost Place	1858-1870	Located by Thomas Smith at the junction of the St. Joseph trail on the Fort Leavenworth and Fort Laramie Military Road. It was a  Pony Express Station on the California Trail and later a stage station on the Overland Stage Route.
Ash Rock	Rooks	Lost Town
Ash Valley	Pawnee	Lost Town	1877-1908 1922-1941	Located in Ash Creek Valley, about 12 miles northwest of Larned.
Ashcroft	Jefferson	Lost Town	1898-1900	Ashcroft was in Delaware Township, about four miles from Valley Falls
Ashland	Clark	Current Town	1883-Present	The county seat of Clark County.
Ashland	Ness	Lost Town
Ashland Colony	Riley	Lost Town	None	South of the river near Ogden.
Ashler	Chase	Lost Town	1879-1885	Located in the southwest part of Toledo Township, its first postmaster was A.B. Perrigo. When the post office closed, it moved to Elco. It was 11 miles east of Cottonwood Falls, near the Lyon County line.
Ashmead	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1875-1888	Moved to Lorraine in 1888.
Ashton	Sumner	Extinct Town	1887-1971	In Walton Township, it was a station on the Kansas Southwestern Railway, about 16 miles southeast of Wellington.
Assaria	Saline	Current Town
Astor/Reid	Greeley	Lost Town	1888-1896	First called Reid, the town had 50 residents in June 1887. That year, the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through. In 1888, the town changed its name to Astor. In 1897, Astor became a ghost town. The town company eventually sold the land to pay the back taxes.
Atchison	Atchison	Current Town	1855-Present	County seat. Settled as a pro-slavery town. The Bogus Legislature incorporated it in 1855. The take-off point for gold fields of California in 1850. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad was founded at Atchison in 1871.
Atchison County	Atchison	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, Atchison County, was created in 1855. Atchison is the county seat.
Atchison Steam Ferry	Atchison	Lost Place	NA	Operated in 1857 on the Missouri River. W. L. Challiss & Co., proprietor.
Athelstane or Athelstone	Clay	Lost Town
Athens	Jewell	Lost Town	1871-1901
Athens	Woodson	Lost Town
Athol	Smith	Current Town	-2017	The post office closed on November 18, 2017.
Athy	Grant	Lost Town	1916-1925
Atkin	Graham	Lost Town		Vacated 1889.
Atkinsville	Montgomery	Lost Town		The post office was only open for about six months
Atlanta	Cowley	Current Town	1871-Present
Atlanta	Montgomery	Name Change		The name changed to Rutland.
Atlanta	Rice	Name Change		Now Lyons.
Attica	Ellsworth	Name Change		The name changed to Bosland. Now Wilson.
Attica	Harper	Current Town	1880-Present
Atwater	Meade	Lost Town		Vacated 1899.
Atwood	Rawlins	Current Town	1879-Present	County seat
Aubrey	Hamilton	Name Change		The post office was called Zamora. Both changed to Kendall
Aubry	Johnson	Lost Town	1860-1862 1866-1888	Located in southeastern Johnson County, Aubry was once a bloody battleground during the border troubles of the Civil War.
Auburn	Shawnee	Current Town
Augusta	Butler	Current Town	1868-Present	Incorporated in 1871 and located on table land near the confluence of Walnut and Whitewater Rivers. On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Augustine Springs	Wichita	Lost Town
Aulne	Marion	Extinct town	1887-1954	A station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad six miles south of Marion. In 1910, it had a money order post office, a good local trade, did considerable shipping and had a population of 150. Today, the town still has a few buildings and an active church.
Aurora	Cloud	Current Town
Aurora	Coffey	Lost Town	None	The site was located in 1857. Though it was surveyed and platted and a house erected, nothing else was done.
Aurora	Jewell	Lost Town		Discontinued about 1881 or 1882.
Aurora	Osage	Lost Town	1886	The post office moved from Penfield. It was only open for three months before the post office rescinded an Order of change.
Austin	Sumner	Lost Town		The site was located in 1869; abandoned in 1872.
Avery	Reno	Lost Town	1885-1901	It was located on Peace Creek, about 20 miles northwest of Hutchinson.
Avilda	Marion	Lost Town	1878-1879
Avilla	Comanche	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Avoca	Chase	Lost Town	??	Located in both Chase and Butler Counties, it was one mile south of Cedar Point.
Avoca	Jackson	Lost Town	1871-1907	A hamlet located near the west line of the county, 11 miles southwest of Holton. When the post office closed, it received its mail by rural delivery from Soldier.
Avon	Coffey	Lost Town	1865-1888
Avondale	Franklin	Lost Town		Formerly Emerson: Moved to Lane.
Axtell	Marshall	Current Town	1871-Present
Ayr	Butler	Lost Town	1875-1885	The post office moved to Potwin.
Ayersburg, Ayersville	Ottawa	Name Change		Now Lindsey.
Ayersville	Marshall	Lost Town	None	Ayersville, a village or feed station in 1855, was 20 miles south of the Nebraska line on the Little Blue River, probably at or near Cedar Falls.

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