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 exist with a few homes and buildings, but no longer has 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 having lost their primary economic mainstay, or for other reasons.

Name Change – The name of the community 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	NA	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	Name Change		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		Crossing of Santa Fe Trail. Charles H. Withington had a store in 1856. Allen post office established 1/2 mile northeast, 1855-56. Located near Road M, four miles north of Allen
Abilene	Dickinson	Current Town		The name changed from Mud Creek or Muddy Creek, Tim Hersey was a pioneer and town promoter; Charles H. Thompson was the townsite owner. In 1859/1860 it was on the Smoky Hill Trail; 1866/1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad,1867 Chisholm Trail; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad,home of Dwight D. Eisenhower;
Abram	Lincoln	Lost Town		Founded 1870. Abandoned 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.
Adair	Trego	Lost Town
Adams Peak	Pottawatomie	Lost Town
Adamson	Rooks	Lost Town
Adamsville
Adel	Ness	Lost Town
Adel	Sheridan	Lost Town
Adelphi	Cowley	Name Change		One of the early names of Arkansas City
Adobe	Seward	Lost Town
Advance	Meade			On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Advance	Sheridan	Lost Town
Aeolia	Douglas	Lost Town
Agenda	Republic
Afton	Sedgwick	Lost Town
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
Aiken	McPherson			On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Ailanthus	Ottawa	Lost Town		Discontinued 1882
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.
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 right 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 located about two miles from the Wabaunsee County line and seven miles from Council Grove.
Alcolea	Greenwood	Lost Town	1874	It was located southwest of Eureka.
Alcona	Rooks
Alcove Springs	Marshall		NA
Alcyone	Sheridan	Lost Town
Alden	Rice			Was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Alembic	Riley	Lost Town		Also called Alembria, it is now Leonardsville.
Alert	Riley	Lost Town		Alert was west of Randolph.
Alexander	Douglas	Lost Town
Alexander	Rush			Alexander Harvey, postmaster
Alexandria	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1856-1857	Alexander was incorporated in 1855, by A. Majors, S. D. Pitcher, A. Payne, J. M. Alexander, Sibley and William  H. Russell. It was located on Stranger Creek.
Alfred	Douglas	Lost Town
Alicari	Ness	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Alice
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	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			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	Lost Town		This town grew up around the homestead of James & Mary Brown Hall south of the Prairie Dog Creek circa 1871. Mail was distributed to settlers from their sod house. Named for Mary Hall’s hometown in Michigan. In 1885, the Lincoln Land Company platted land north of the Prairie Dog Creek and in conjunction with the Burlington Railroad offered free lots to merchants who would move. Almena was incorporated as a city of the third class on April 10, 1893. Two rail lines served Almena: the Chicago, Kansas, and Nebraska Railway (the Rock Island route) with track laid through Norton County in 1887 located in south Almena; and in north Almena the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Each had its own depot.
Alta	Harvey	Lost Town
Alta Vista/Cable City	Wabaunsee	Lost Town		Formerly called Albion, it was located in Washington Township; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Altamont	Labette			Located on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Alton	Atchison	Lost Town
Alton	Osborne			General H. C. Bull from Wisconson 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		It had a post office from June 1872 to October 1881.
Altoona	Wilson
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.
Amboy	Rooks	Lost Town
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			Located north of Emporia, it was named for the “celebrated explorer Americus Vespucci. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Ames	Cloud
Amity	Jewell	Lost Town
Amy	Lane
Andale	Sedgwick
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			On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Andrew	Smith	Lost Town
Antelope	Marion	Lost Town		A place on the Santa Fe Trail where antelope were seen. It had a post office.
Anthony	Harper	Current Town		County seat of Harper County; 50 miles west of Arkansas City.
Antone	Pawnee	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Antonino	Ellis	Lost Town		Located south of Hays;
Appanoose	Franklin	Lost Town		The post office was established in 1859. Located in the north part of the county.
Appin	Saline	Lost Town
Appleton	Bourbon	Lost Town
Appleton	Clark	Lost Town
Appomattox	Grant	Lost Town	1890-1894	Vacated 1893. Formed by the consolidation of Cincinnati and Surprise.
Arapahoe	Dickenson	Lost Town
Arcadia	Crawford			It was known as Hathaway, Cox’s Creek, OldArcadia, Finley City, and present Arcadia
Arcola	Ellsworth	Lost Town	None
Arcola	Sumner	Lost Town
Argonia	Sumner			Argonia had the “first woman mayor in the world” — Susana Medora Salter in 1887.
Argyle	Sumner	Lost Town		It had a post office from February 1874 to February 1881.
Army City	Riley	Lost Town	1918-1922	Army City was a town built in 1917 to satisfy the needs of Camp Funston on the Fort Riley, Kansas military reservation.
Aroma	Dickinson	Lost Town
Arion	Cloud	Lost Town		It had a post office from April 1875 to July 1883.
Arispie	Pottawatomie	Lost Town
Arizon	Doniphan			Platted in March, 1856
Arizona	Butler	Lost Town
Arizonia	Doniphan	Lost Town		Platted in 1856.
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		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			On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 1887
Arma	Crawford			Named for a coal miner and land owner.
Armstrong	Wyandotte	Lost Town		Part of Kansas City, Kansas, consolidated 1886.
Armourdale	Wyandotte
Armstrong	Leavenworth			On the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Army City	Geary	Lost Town
Arnold	Crawford	Name Change		Now Beulah.
Arnold	Ness			J. G. Arnold, elevator owner
Aroma	Dickinson	Lost Town
Arrington	Atchison	Lost Town	1862-1973	Also called Arrington Springs, 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
Arvilla	Osage	Lost Town		East of Burlingame.
Arvonia	Osage	Lost Town		A Welsh population settlement it was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Ash Point/Laramie Creek Station	Nemaha	Lost Town/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
Ashcroft	Jefferson	Lost Town	1898-1900	Ashcroft was in Delaware Township about four miles from Valley Falls
Ashland	Clark	Current Town		County seat of Clark County.
Ashland	Riley	Lost Town		Post office in 1855, discontinued in 1968. Town vacated in 1873. South of the river near Ogden.
Ashland	Ness	Lost Town
Ashmead	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1875-1888	Moved to Lorraine in 1888.
Assaria	Saline
Astor	Greeley	Lost Town		Vacated 1897.
Atchison	Atchison	Current Town		The take-off point for gold fields of California in 1850. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. founded at Atchison 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., Proprietors.
Athelstane or Athelstone	Clay	Lost Town
Athens	Jewell	Lost Town
Athens	Woodson
Athy	Grant	Lost Town	1916-1925
Atkin	Graham	Lost Town		Vacated 1889.
Atkinsville	Montgomery	Lost Town
Atlanta	Cowley	Lost Town
Atlanta	Montgomery	Name Change		Name changed to Rutland.
Atlanta	Rice	Name Change		Now Lyons.
Attica	Ellsworth	Name Change		Name changed to Bosland. Now Wilson.
Attica	Harper	Lost Town
Atwater	Meade	Lost Town		Vacated 1899.
Atwood	Rawlins	Current Town		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
Augusta	Butler	Current Town		Incorporated in 1871; 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
Aurora	Cloud
Aurora	Coffey	Lost Town		Site located 1857; abandoned 1861.
Aurora	Jewell	Lost Town		Discontinued about 1881 or 1882.
Austin	Sumner	Lost Town		Site located 1869; abandoned 1872.
Avery	Reno	Lost Town
Avilda	Marion	Lost Town
Avilla	Comanche	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Avon	Coffey	Lost Town		Post office 1859.
Avondale	Franklin	Lost Town		Formerly Emerson: Moved to Lane.
Ayersburg, Ayersville	Ottawa	Name Change		Now Lindsey.
Ayr	Butler	Lost Town
Axtell	Marshall
Ayresville	Marshall	Lost Town		Established 1855. On Little Blue River, 20 miles south of the Nebraska line.

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