Cattle at the Smoky Hill River in Ellsworth County, Kansas, by Alexander Gardner, 1867.
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| Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
| Eads | Lyon | Lost Town | 1878-1884 | |
| Eagle | Barber | Lost Town | 1890-1908 | It was situated in the forks of Little Mule Creek in Elwood Township, about 12 miles southwest of Medicine Lodge. |
| Eagle | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle Bend | Clay | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle City | Madison | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle Creek | Lyon | Lost Town | 1870-1873 | |
| Eagle Creek | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle Rapids | Smith | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle Springs | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
| Eagle Tail | Wallace | Name Change | Now Sharon Springs. | |
| Earlton | Neosho | Extinct Town | 1871-1976 | Earlton was founded in 1870. Not much progress was made until about 1876 when a railroad depot was built there. The town’s name was first spelled Earleton until it was changed to Earlton in 1950. Its post office closed on July 3, 1976. As of the 2020 census, the population of this tiny town was 60. |
| Earnest | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Easdale | Ellis | Lost Town | 1878-1887 | The post office moved to Pfeifer in 1887. Located in the southeast part of Ellis County. |
| East Haddam | Washington | Name Change | Now Haddam | |
| East Norway | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
| East Wolf | Russell | Lost Town | 1872-1887 | |
| Eastborough | Sedgwick | Current Town | ||
| Easton | Leavenworth | Current Town | ||
| Eastwood | Bourbon | Lost Town | ||
| Eaton | Logan | Lost Town | ||
| Eaton | Ottawa | Lost Town | ||
| Eaton | Riley | Lost Town | ||
| Eatonville | Cowley | Lost Town | 1887-1905 | |
| Echo | Lost Town | 1874-1900 | ||
| Eclipse | Coffey | Lost Town | 1873-1883 | The post office moved to Antioch. |
| Economy | Rush | Lost Town | 1871-1872 | |
| Eden | Atchison | Lost Town | 1858-1900 | It was located in the county’s northern portion on Independence Creek, about five miles east of Huron. |
| Eden | Sumner | Lost Town | 1858-1900 | |
| Eden Prairie | McPherson | Lost Town | 1873-1883 | |
| Edgcomb | Butler | Lost Town | 1880-1888 | A small community in Murdock Township in northwest Butler County. It had several homes, a post office, of which Jesse Aaron Hawes was the first postmaster, and a general store. |
| Edison | Crawford | Lost Town | None | Edison was a mining town. There are currently a few houses in the area. |
| Edith | Logan | Lost Town | 1888-1933 | A post office opened in March 1888 on Twin Butte Creek, about 12 miles southeast of Russell Springs. |
| Edgerton | Johnson | Current Town | On the Santa Fe Trail and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
| Edmond | Norton | Ghost Town | -1996 | The post office closed on May 2, 1996. |
| Edna | Labette | Current Town | ||
| Edonia | Allen | Lost Town | ||
| Edwards County | Edwards | Current County | NA | Formed from Kiowa County in 1874. Kinsley is the county seat. |
| Edwardsville | Wyandotte | Extinct Town | 1867-1971 | The post office changed in 1971 to a classified branch of the Kansas City, Kansas, post office. |
| Edwin/Litchfield | Crawford | Name Change | A coal-mining town later called Litchfield. | |
| Edwin | Stanton | Lost Town | 1886-1905 | |
| Edwin | Wabaunsee | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | ||
| Effingham | Atchison | Current Town | On the Missouri Pacific Railroad. | |
| Egypt | Harvey | Lost Town | 1884-1885 | The post office was only open for about six months. |
| Elba | Anderson | Lost Town | The Town company was organized on January 23, 1858, and abandoned soon after. | |
| Elba | Chase | Lost Town | 1892-1903 | |
| Elbing | Butler | Current Town | ||
| Elbon | Russell | Name Change | The name changed to Lucas in 1903. | |
| Elco | Lyon | Lost Town | 1885-1903 | Elco was a small settlement in the county’s southwestern corner, eight miles from Olpe. |
| Eldon | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1898-1901 | Located about eight miles southeast of Columbus and three miles north of Galena. |
| Eldon | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | 1858-1860 | The post office moved to Saint George. |
| Eldora | Bourbon | Name Change | The name changed to Mapleton in 1857. | |
| El Dorado | Butler | Current Town | The county seat of Butler County. It began as a trading point and cattle town on the Walnut River in the 1860s. Oil was discovered in 1915. | |
| Eldred | Barber | Lost Town | 1886-1903 1908 |
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| Eldridge | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1872-1886 | |
| Elen | Osage | Lost Town | ||
| Elgin | Chautauqua | Current Town | ||
| Elgo | Republic | Name Change | Now Norway | |
| Eli | Cowley | Lost Town | 1884-1887 | The post office moved to Hooser. |
| Eli | Stanton | Lost Town | ||
| Elinor | Chase | Lost Town | 1871-1881 | Located in Toledo Township, Elinor was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad at the mouth of Peyton Creek. Leroy Martin was the first postmaster in 1871. It was three miles west of Safford. |
| Elivon | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Elizabeth | Marshall | Lost Town | 1868-1872 | Located one mile northeast of Bigelow, there was a feed and supply station near Inman’s Quarries. |
| Elizabeth | Wallace | Lost Town | ||
| Elizabethtown | Anderson | Lost Town | 1859-1883 | In 1859, this town was located, surveyed, and platted |
| Elizabethtown | Johnson | Lost Town | Established 1858. | |
| Elizabethtown | Leavenworth | Lost Place | Established in 1845 on the Missouri River about a mile north of present Amazonia, Missouri. E.H. Perry & Young operated a store and warehouse in about 1850. | |
| Elk | Chase | Lost Town | 1874-1924 | Elk was founded in 1865 in Diamond Creek Township by Henry Collet. |
| Elk City | Jackson | Lost Town | ||
| Elk City | Montgomery | Current Town | ||
| Elk County | Elk | Current County | NA | Formed from Howard County in 1875. Howard is the county seat. |
| Elk Creek/Clyde | Cloud | Name Change | Name change from Elk Creek to Clyde. | |
| Elk Creek | Osage | Lost Town | 1857-1858 1878-1880 |
The post office moved to Ridgeway in May 1858. It reopened in 1878 and closed in 1880. |
| Elk Falls | Elk | Current Town | ||
| Elk River | Elk | Lost Town | ||
| Elkader/Keystone/Ben Allen | Logan | Lost Town | 1887-1900 1905-1948 |
It was located in the Smoky Hill Valley, 20 miles due south of Oakley. |
| Elkado | Logan | Lost Town | ||
| Elkhart | McPherson | Lost Town | 1875-1879 | |
| Elkhart | Morton | Current Town | County Seat. On the Santa Fe Trail. | |
| Elkhorn | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1898-1920 | A small hamlet situated on Elkhorn Creek, about 12 miles northeast of Ellsworth. In 1910 the population was 25. |
| Elkhorn | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1868-1871 | |
| Ellen | Osage | Lost Town | 1899-1900 | Ellen was about three miles south of Lyndon. |
| Ellinwood | Barton | Current Town | On the Santa Fe Trail and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
| Ellis | Ellis | Current Town | Founded in 1867. It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. | |
| Ellis County | Ellis | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Hays is the county seat. |
| Ellis’ Ferry 1839 | Leavenworth | Lost Place | On the Missouri River 3.5 miles above Weston, Missouri, opposite Kickapoo. Isaac M. C. Ellis, proprietor. | |
| Ellsworth | Ellsworth | Current Town | County Seat. Founded in 1867 near Fort Ellsworth/Harker. Named after Lieutenant Allen Ellsworth of the 7th Iowa Cavalry. In 1872 Ellsworth succeeded Abilene as the northern terminus of the Texas cattle trail. On the Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1867 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in 1888. | |
| Ellsworth County | Ellsworth | Current County | NA | Created in 1867 from unorganized area. Ellsworth is the county seat. |
| Elm | Allen | Lost Town | ||
| Elm Creek | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
| Elm Creek – See Alum Creek | Ellsworth | Lost Town | ||
| Elm Creek | Marshall | Lost Town | 1874-1893 | A post office was located on south Elm Creek at the home of John Means, postmaster and early settler. |
| Elm Grove, Lone Elm Campground, Round Grove Campground | Johnson | Lost Town | Station on Santa Fe Trail, 30 miles from Westport, Missouri. The campground was established in 1835. Sibley called it Caravan Grove in 1827. It was at the Cedar Creek crossing of the Santa Fe Trail about one mile west of the intersection of US56 & K7, southwest of Olathe. A DAR marker is at the site. A Shawnee Indian named John Ham provided meals and shelter to travelers in 1855. | |
| Elm Grove | Rooks | Lost Town | 1872-1877 | |
| Elm Grove | Washington | Lost Town | The post office moved to Barnes when it closed. | |
| Elm Mills | Barber | Lost Town | 1878-1893 | Located in the northcentral part of Barber County, Elm Mills had a flour mill and blacksmith in 1885. |
| Elm Mills | Pratt | Lost Town | Old milling town. | |
| Elm Valley | Rush | Lost Town | 1879-1887 | |
| Elma | Republic | Lost Town | 1872-1881 | Elma, in the northern central part of Republic County, had a general store, weekly mail, and a population of 30 in 1878. It was 13 miles from Belleville, the county seat, and 25 from Belvidere, Nebraska, on the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad, the nearest station. |
| Elmdale | Chase | Current Town | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
| Elmandaro | Greenwood | Lost Town | ||
| Elmendaro | Lyon | Lost Town | 1860-1870 | Also spelled Elmandaro. |
| Elmer/Bernal | Reno | Lost Town | 1887-1913 | Located seven miles south of Hutchinson, Bernal was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Though the post office was called Bernal, the railroad called the town Elmer. |
| Elmira | Mitchell | Lost Town | ||
| Elmo | Dickinson | Ghost Town | 1884-1966 | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, it is located in Banner Township. |
| Elmont | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1887-1955 | In Soldier Township, it was a station on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad seven miles north of Topeka. In 1910, it had a population of 61. |
| El Paso | Sedgwick | Name Change | The name changed to Derby. | |
| Elrick | Graham | Lost Town | ||
| Elsea | Barber | Lost Town | 1904-1905 | The post office’s order of change was rescinded. |
| Elsmore/Elsinore | Allen | Extinct Town | 1866-2005 | The name changed from Elsinore to Elsmore On February 11, 1889. Still has a small population of 50. |
| Elston | Labette | Lost Town | ||
| Elwood/Roseport | Doniphan | Current Town | Pony Express station. The first railroad in Kansas was between Elwood to Wathena. Formerly named Roseport for Richard Rose, but he was expelled when the community discovered he was a former convict. The town was reorganized by John B. Elwood of New York and renamed Elwood. | |
| Elyria | McPherson | Extinct Town | 1887-1954 | Elyria was a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad in King City Township. In 1910, it had a post office, general stores, an express office, and a population of 100. It is seven miles southeast of McPherson. |
| Emerald | Anderson | Lost Town | 1869-1895 1897-1903 |
Though the town is gone, the beautiful St. Patrick’s Catholic Church remains today. |
| Emerald | Franklin | Lost Town | None | First settled in 1857. |
| Emerson | Franklin | Name Change | The name changed to Avondale. | |
| Eminence-Cuyler | 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. |
| Eminence | Sumner | Lost Town | 1872 | The post office was only open for about four months. |
| Emley City | Osborne | Lost Town | 1872 | Established 1872. |
| Emmeram/Norddorf | Ellis | Lost Town | 1903-1904 | Named after the famous church builder Father Emmeram Kausler, the community consisted of the Sacred Heart Church and two schools. Though a town plot was filed in 1902, the town never materialized. The post office’s name was Emmeram. |
| Emmet | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1890-1901 | |
| Emmett | Brown | Lost Town | 1881-1882 | |
| Emmett | Pottawatomie | Current Town | ||
| Emmons | Washington | Lost Town | 1885-1918 | A village of Charleston Township, Emmons was a station on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad four miles northeast of Washington, the county seat. |
| Empire | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Empire City | Cherokee | Extinct Town | 1877-1886 1887-1913 |
The town began in 1877 when lead was discovered near Short Creek. It was absorbed into Galena. There are several buildings left in the neighborhood today. |
| Emporia | Lyon | Current Town | County Seat. Welsh population settlement; founded in 1857; 1863, Emporia State University at Emporia was established as the Kansas State Normal School. | |
| Emville | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
| Enfield | Hamilton | Lost Town | 1887 | The post office was open for only eight months. |
| Englevale/Calvin | Crawford | Lost Town | 1891-1954 | Originally named Calvin. Named for Cecil Engle, town promoter. The town was a stop on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. |
| Englewood | Clark | Current Town | ||
| Enne | Rawlins | Lost Town | ||
| Ennisville | Montgomery | Lost Town | One mile south of Caney. | |
| Enon | Barber | Lost Town | 1885-1904 | It was located about 14 miles east of Medicine Lodge and four miles from Sharon, the nearest railroad station. After its post office closed, mail was received by rural delivery through the post office at Attica. |
| Enosdale | Washington | Lost Town | 1884-1903 | Enosdale was about four miles south of Morrow, the nearest railroad station, and seven miles southwest of Washington, the county seat, from which its mail was received by rural delivery after its post office closed. |
| Ensign | Gray | Current Town | On the Santa Fe Trail. | |
| Enterprise | Dickinson | Current Town | Established 1872 by C. Hoffman & Johannes Ehrsam. Originally named Louden Falls, later changed to Enterprise to reflect the industriousness of those who lived there. Home of J.B. Ehrsam & Sons manufacturing and Hoffman Mills. |
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| Equity | Anderson | Lost Town | 1883-1894 | The post office was moved from Rich. |
| Erie | Neosho | Current Town | County seat. Originally called Osage Mission, Neosho County had both an Old and New Erie, but Old Erie suffered political defeat, a devastating fire, and final destruction by a tornado. | |
| Erin | Washington | Lost Town | 1868-1872 | The post office moved to Pursley when it closed. |
| Errick’s Ferry | Riley | Lost Place | Established in 1860 on the Kansas River in Manhattan. John Errick, Proprietor. In 1857 the ferry at this location was supplied by bringing the Pittsburg Ferry boat downstream to the mouth of the Big Blue River. By 1864, James Woodward was the owner and made substantial improvements, including landing ramps on each bank. | |
| Esbon | Jewell | Current Town | Named after Ezbon Kellogg, a pioneer. | |
| Eskridge | Wabaunsee | Current Town | ||
| Essex | Finney | Lost Town | 1886-1918 | Essex was located on a small tributary of the Pawnee River in the Pawnee Valley, one of the state’s most beautiful and fertile regions. It was on the proposed line of the Kansas Air Line Railroad, which would connect the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway’s main line running southwest into Colorado’s coal fields. In its early years, Essex had a hotel, a general store, a printing office, a real estate office, a blacksmith shop, a lumber yard, a canning outfit with a 2000-can capacity, and a large sorghum mill. In 1910, Essex was a money order post-hamlet with a population of 28. Charleston was the nearest railroad station. Essex was 18 miles northeast of Garden City, 15 miles from Ravanna, and 14 miles from Pierceville. |
| Essex | Shawnee | Lost Town | ||
| Esther | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1890-1893 | |
| Esthira | Rush | Lost Town | 1880-1883 | |
| Ethel | Coffey | Lost Town | 1899 | The post office was open for less than five months. Order of change rescinded. |
| Etzanoa | Cowley | Lost Town | None | Etzanoa is a historical city of the Wichita people, located in present-day Arkansas City, Kansas, near the Arkansas River that flourished between 1450 and 1700. |
| Eudora | Douglas | Current Town | ||
| Eugene | Ford | Lost Town | 1886-1887 | |
| Eugene/North Topeka | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1866-1879 | The name changed from Eugene to North Topeka on February 12, 1870. |
| Eujatah | Ford | Lost Town | Eujatah was an Indian village on the Arkansas River at the end of a government road to Fort Atkinson in 1855. | |
| Eunice | Kingman | Lost Town | 1878-1881 | |
| Eureka | Greenwood | Current Town | 1858-Present | County seat. Albert Tucker and a few others founded it on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Eureka | Osage | Lost Town | East of Burlingame. | |
| Eureka Ferry | Wyandotte | Lost Place | Established in about 1856 on the Kansas River. Aaron W. Merrill & Abelard Guthrie, Proprietors. | |
| Eustis | Sherman | Lost Town | Absorbed by Goodland, 1888. | |
| Evan’s Station | Chase | Lost Town | None | George and Thomas Evans were settlers near here in 1859. It was three and a half miles west of Strong City on the northwest branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Evanston | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1898-1902 | Located in the western portion of the county on Stranger Creek, five miles north of Jarbalo. |
| Evansville | Comanche | Lost Town | ||
| Evansville | Doniphan | Lost Town | None | Filed by Colonel D.M. Johnston, June 1, 1857. A few houses were built, but little else |
| Eve | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1894-1901 | |
| Everest | Brown | Current Town | 1882-Present | Everest, Kansas, is a small town in Washington Township in south-central Brown County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 265, and its total area was 0.26 square miles, all of it land. |
| Everett | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Ewell | Sumner | Lost Town | 1895-1906 | A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad five miles south of Conway Springs. |
| Ewing | Lyon | Lost Town | 1883-1887 | |
| Ewing | Marshall | Lost Town | None | Ewing was located three miles west of Vermillion. It was named for the Ewing family. |
| Example | Haskell | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
| Excelsior | Douglas | Name Change | Later Lawrence. | |
| Excelsior | Mitchell | Lost Town | ||
| Excelsior Colony | Jewell | Lost Town | None | Early in May 1869, a colony of Scotch mechanics from Brooklyn, New York, located in far western Jewell County. This group of 200 families, composed of farmers and mechanics of various trades, intended to found a town to operate various factories. |
| Exeter | Clay | Lost Town | 1871-1906 | An inland hamlet about ten miles southwest of Clay Center, the county seat and most convenient railroad station |
| Exonville – See Chalk | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
| Express City | Linn | Lost Town | A stage station between Osawatomie and Paris. | |
| Eyerton | Brown | Lost Town | 1881-1882 | The post office moved to Everest. |