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. |
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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. |
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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. |