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Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
Fact | Clay | Lost Town | 1883-1903 | A small hamlet in the northeast corner of the county, it was about 15 miles from Clay Center and eight miles from Palmer, the nearest railroad station. |
Fagan | Graham | Lost Town | Vacated 1895 | |
Fair Play | Marion | Lost Town | 1877-1878 | It was located five miles south of Peabody. |
Fairdale/Summundowot | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1887-1902 | The name changed from Summundowot to Fairdale in 1891. |
Fairfax/Lindale | Osage | Lost Town | 1869-1883 | The name changed from Lindale to Fairfax on March 6, 1871. |
Fairfield | Russell | Lost Town | ||
Fairfield | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | 1880-1889 | |
Fairhaven | Norton | Lost Town | ||
Fairland | Marshall | Lost Town | 1863-1869 | |
Fair Lawn | Allen | Lost Town | 1879-1881 | Located in the east-central part of the county, it was 11 miles east of Iola Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Kansas Railroad, its shipping point, and the location of the nearest bank |
Fairmount | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1864-1866 | Located a few miles southwest of Leavenworth on the Lawrence branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. |
Fairpoint | Rice | Lost Town | ||
Fairport/Clarkson | Russell | Lost Town | 1878-1959 | The town name changed from Clarkson to Fairfield on June 15, 1881. In 1910, it had a population of 75. It was located about 12 miles north of Gorham. |
Fairview | Anderson | Lost Town | 1857 | |
Fairview | Brown | Current Town | ||
Fairview | Doniphan | Lost Town | A townsite was filed on June 6, 1857. It was a ferry landing. | |
Fairway | Johnson | Current Town | ||
Farisville | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1875-1911 | |
Fall/Fall Leaf | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1868 1874-1894 1895-1927 |
Fall Leaf was a station in the southern part of Reno Township on the main line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad and on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. |
Fall Leaf | Anderson | |||
Fall River | Greenwood | Current Town | On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. | |
Fame | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1868 1870-1920 |
A country post office located ten miles east of Eureka and five miles from Neal. |
Fancy Creek | Clay | Lost Town | 1870-1901 | Settled in 1860, this farming settlement was located on the stream from which it takes its name in the northeastern part of Clay County, 12 miles from Clay Center, the county seat and nearest shipping point. |
Fannie | Cloud | Lost Town | 1870-1878 | A rural post office on the Smoky Hill River in Empire Township, about 12 miles southeast of Ellsworth. |
Fanning | Doniphan | Lost Town | 1870-1933 | The community started in 1870 as a station on the Atchison & Nebraska Railway. |
Far West | Morris | Lost Town | 1864-1869 1872-1887 |
Far West was a crossing on Clark’s Creek in Clark’s Creek Township in western Morris County. William Marion Walter was the first postmaster. The post office moved to Aroma in 1869. It reopened in 1872 and moved in 1887 to Latimer. |
Fargo | Graham | Lost Town | ||
Fargo, Fargo Springs | Seward | Lost Town | ||
Farisville | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1875-1911 | A rural post office on the Smoky Hill River in Empire Township, about 12 miles southeast of Ellsworth. |
Farland | McPherson | Lost Town | 1872-1887 | |
Farlington | Crawford | Extinct Town | 1870-2018 | Eugene D. Farley was the first postmaster. The post office closed on February 1, 2018. |
Farlinville | Linn | Lost Town | Named for Alonzo Farlin, a pioneer | |
Farmdale | Lost Town | Located on the Benedict Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | ||
Farmer | Rice | Lost Town | ||
Farmer | Wyandotte | Lost Town | ||
Farmer City | Wichita | Lost Town | ||
Farmersburg | Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
Farmersville | Osage | Lost Town | 1873-1879 | |
Farmington | Atchison | Lost Town | 1868-1940 | Located on the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Atchison County, Kansas, Farmington started as a railroad station. |
Farmington | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1861-1863 | |
Farmington | Nemaha | Lost Town | None | Farmington was established about 1856, about one mile southwest of Baker’s Ford on the St. Joseph and California Road. |
Farmridge | Montgomery | Lost Town | ||
Farms | Harvey | Lost Town | ||
Farms | McPherson | Lost Town | 1873-1887 | |
Farnsworth | Lane | Lost Town | ||
Faulkner | Cherokee | Extinct Town | 1886-1944 | Faulkner was a shipping point on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. |
Favor | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1874-1876 | |
Fawn Creek, Fawn Valley | Montgomery | Lost Town | ||
Fay | Russell | Lost Town | 1883-1908 | A small settlement of Paradise Township, it was located in the Solomon Valley, about ten miles northwest of Russell. |
Fayette | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1875-1884 | |
Fayetteville | Clay | Lost Town | ||
Federal | Hamilton | Lost Town | 1886-1913 | Federal was a rural post office in the Richland township of the northeastern part of Hamilton County. Its population in 1910 was 28. It was located about 18 miles from Syracuse, the county seat and the most convenient railroad station. |
Felix | Finney | Lost Town | 1880-1884 | Located in Garfield Township, Felix was in the center of a cattle range that was patronized largely by cattlemen. It received its mail from Garden City twice weekly. |
Fellsburg | Edwards | Lost Town | Named for the Fells family, pioneers. | |
Fenton | Rush | Lost Town | 1882-1898 | |
Fenwick | Republic | Lost Town | 1875-1882 | Fenwick was located on Elk Creek in the southeastern part of Republic County. In 1878 it had semi-weekly mail delivered to postmaster John Canary. It was 18 miles from Belleville, the county seat, and four and 1/2 miles from Clyde, the nearest railroad station from which wheat, hogs, and cattle were shipped. |
Ferguson | Franklin | Lost Town | ||
Ferguson | Sedgwick | Named for a pioneer | ||
Fernandino | Harvey | Lost Town | At the junction of Little Arkansas River and Sand Creek. | |
Ferris | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1877-1882 | |
Fiat | Elk | Lost Town | 1882-1898 | |
Fidelity | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1890-1902 | |
Field | Morris | Lost Town | 1880-1895 | |
Fillmore | Lane | Lost Town | Vacated 1903. | |
Findlay | Linn | Lost Town | 1891-1906 | On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, it was about 15 miles northwest of Mound City. |
Findlay City | Crawford | Lost Town | ||
Fingal | Rush | Lost Town | 1887-1910 | In Pleasant Dale Township near the county’s northeast corner, about 20 miles from La Crosse. |
Finlay, Finley | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
Finney County | Finney | Current County | NA | Formed from Arapahoe, Grant, Kearny, and Sequoyah Counties in 1883. |
First Sight | ||||
Fish’s Ferry | Douglas | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1845 on the Kansas River at present Eudora. Pascal Fish, Proprietor. Units of Colonel Stephen W. Kearny’s Army of the West crossed here in 1846. |
Fishkill | Labette | Lost Town | ||
Flag Spring | Osage | Lost Place | NA | Campsite on Santa Fe Trail. Located on Camp Creek, about 1.5 miles northwest of Overbrook. |
Flat | Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |||
Flat Ridge | Greenwood | Lost Town | ||
Flat Rock | Neosho | Lost Town | ||
Flavius | Rush | Lost Town | 1880-1908 | In Belle Prairie Township, about 14 miles southwest of La Crosse and seven miles from Nekoma. |
Fleming | Crawford | Lost Town | 1892-1908 | Fleming was a coal mining town located about six miles southwest of Pittsburg. The Fleming School (dist. 119) was located near Weir, Kansas. |
Fleming & Howard’s Steam Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | Located on the Missouri River in the vicinity of Elwood. Operational in the 1860s, L.V. Fleming & Mr. Howard, proprietors. |
Fleta | Morris | Lost Town | 1883-1887 | |
Flint Hills National Scenic Byway | Morris, Chase, Butler | Scenic Byway | NA | The 47-mile-long Flint Hills National Scenic Byway is a two-lane, paved road that crosses Morris, Chase, and Butler Counties. It leaves Council Grove on Highway 177 and continues south through several communities before ending in Cassoday. |
Flint Ridge | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1874-1921 | Also spelled Flintridge, it was a country post office located in Salem Township, 20 miles northwest of Eureka. |
Float | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | 1874-1876 | |
Flogny | Hamilton | Lost Town | 1915-1917 | |
Floral | Cowley | Lost Town | 1870-1932 | |
Florence | Allen | Lost Town | 1858-1859 | The post office was only open for about three months. The post office moved to Carlyle. |
Florence | Marion | Current Town | Established at the junction of the Cottonwood River and Doyle Creek in 1870. It was named for Mrs. Florence Crawford Capper, daughter of Governor S. J. Crawford. It was located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
Floreyville | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
Flush | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | 1899-1927 | Located in Pottawatomie Township, nine miles southwest of Westmoreland. In 1910, it had a local telephone exchange, a money order post office with one rural route, and a population of 23. |
Fly Creek | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1868-1870 | |
Fonda | Ford | Lost Town | 1885-1890 | Fonda, located just north of Corbitt, was a proposed station on the Wichita and Dodge City Railroad. Vacated 1895. |
Fontana | Miami | Current Town | Located south of Paola. | |
Fontanelle | Butler | Lost Town | ||
Fontzville – See Tontzville. | Miami | Lost Town | ||
Ford | Ford | Ghost Town | On the lower Crossing of Santa Fe Trail at the Arkansas River and Mulberry Creek junction. | |
Ford County | Ford | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Dodge City is the county seat. |
Fordham | Hodgeman | Lost Town | ||
Forest | Barber | Lost Town | 1908-1919 | |
Forest | Russell | Lost Town | 1904-1906 | |
Forest Grove | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1875-1881 | |
Forest Hill | Lyon | Lost Town | 1858-1871 | Forest Hill was established in 1858 on a hill that was not forested. |
Forest Hill | Morris | Lost Town | ||
Forest Hill | Russell | Lost Town | 1878-1895 | |
Forest Hill | Wallace | Lost Town | ||
Forest Home | Franklin | Lost Town | 1867-1877 | The post office moved to Homewood. |
Forest Lake | Wyandotte | Lost Town | Located on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad. | |
Forest Mills – See Blooming Grove. | Linn | Lost Town | ||
Forman’s Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | Established in 1855 on the Missouri River at Iowa Point, John S. Pemberton & Harvey Forman, proprietors. | |
Formoso/Omio | Jewell | Current Town | The name changed from Omio to Formoso when the railway came to Omio in 1885. There was once a small coal mine in Jewell County located about three miles south of Formoso, just west of the former town of Omio. | |
Forrester | Ness | Lost Town | Established 1879. | |
Forsha | Reno | Lost Town | 1896-1907 | Located 11 miles south of Hutchinson, it was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. In 1910, it had a flour mill and was a trading center for the neighborhood. |
Forsyth’s Cree | Russell | Lost Place | Overland station, near Ellis County line. | |
Fort Arkansas | Ford | Lost Place | ||
Fort Atkinson | Ford | Lost Place | 1851-1853 | It was established in 1850 and abandoned in 1854. It was six miles west of Dodge City on the Santa Fe Trail. |
Fort Aubrey | Hamilton | Lost Place | 1866 | Fort Aubrey was established on Spring Creek on the Santa Fe Trail in September 1865 to protect travelers from attacks by Indians and renegades. The post office was open for only eight months. It was four miles east of Syracuse. |
Fort Belmont | Woodson | Lost Place | Trading post in 1856; P. O. 1859. | |
Fort Blair | Cherokee | Lost Place | ||
Fort Brooks | Cloud | Lost Place | ||
Fort Dodge | Ford | Historic Site | 1876-1882 1893-1996 |
Two miles east of Dodge City. The fort was established in 1864 and abandoned in 1882. |
Fort Downer, Downer’s Station | Trego | Lost Place | 1857 | The post was established in 1857 and abandoned in 1868. |
Fort Ellsworth | Ellsworth | Name Change | 1864 | 1864. Changed to Fort Harker 1866. |
Fort Fletcher/Fort Hays | Ellis | Historic Site | 1866-1867 | Post office at Fort Fletcher. The post office moved to Big Creek Station in 1867. |
Fort Hamilton | Linn | Lost Place | NA | Fort Hamilton was not an official military fort. In 1858, it was a stronghold of Charles A. Hamilton, a pro-slavery advocate living in Missouri. |
Fort Harker | Ellsworth | Deactivated, Historic Site | 1864 | Four miles east of Ellsworth, established as Fort Ellsworth in 1864. Changed to Fort Harker 1866; site changed 1867; abandoned 1873. |
Fort Hays/Fort Fletcher | Ellis | Historic Site | 1866-1867 | Post office at Fort Fletcher. The post office moved to Big Creek Station in 1867. |
Fort Hays/Fort Fletcher | Ellis | Deactivated, Historic Site | 1865 | Established as Fort Fletcher in 1865, the name changed to Fort Haysin in 1866; the location changed in 1867; abandoned in 1869. |
Fort Henning | Bourbon | Lost Place | None | One of three blockhouses erected near Fort Scott during the Civil War. |
Fort Insley | Bourbon | Lost Place | None | One of three blockhouses erected near Fort Scott during the Civil War. |
Fort Jewell, Camp Jewell | Jewell | Lost Place | None | Now Jewell City. |
Fort Kanses | Atchison | Lost Place | None | A French trading post was constructed at a Kanza Indian village. |
Fort Kirwin | Phillips | Lost Place | Now Kirwin. | |
Fort Larned/Pawnee Fork | Pawnee | Historic Site | 1859-1881 | The name changed from Pawnee Fork in 1866. The post office moved to Booth in 1881. |
Fort Leavenworth Ferry | Leavenworth | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1828 on the Missouri River. Robert Cain, proprietor in 1836 |
Fort Lincoln | Bourbon | Lost Place | 1861-1879 | Twelve miles north of Fort Scott, on the Osage River, near Fulton; established 1861, abandoned 1864. |
Fort Larned/Pawnee Fork | Pawnee | Deactivated, Historic Site | 1859-1881 | The name changed from Pawnee Fork in 1866. The post office moved to Booth in 1881. |
Fort Leavenworth | Leavenworth | Active Fort | ||
Fort Macky | Ford | Lost Place | Near the site of Fort Mann, a little west of Fort Atkinson abandoned in 1850. | |
Fort Mann | Ford | Lost Place | 1845 | Fort Mann was located on the Santa Fe Trail just a few miles west of present-day Dodge City, Kansas. |
Fort Montgomery | Greenwood | Lost Place | On the site of Eureka. | |
Fort Montgomery | Linn | Lost Place | Fort has been rebuilt in Mound City. | |
Fort Monument | Logan | Lost Place | This was originally a Butterfield stage station along the Smoky Hill Trail. Troops were sent to protect the station and travelers from Indian attacks. | |
Fort Parks – See Parks Fort | Trego | Lost Place | Near WaKeeney. | |
Fort Riley | Riley | Active Fort | ||
Fort Riley Ferry | Riley | Lost Place | The Fort Riley Ferry was established in 1856 on the Kansas River. L. B. Perry, proprietor. | |
Fort Roach | Neosho | Lost Place | Now Ladore. | |
Fort Row | Wilson | Lost Place | 1861 | Near Coyville. Established in 1861 by Captain J.R. Row. |
Fort Saunders | Douglas | Lost Place | NA | Twelve miles southwest of Lawrence. |
Fort Scott | Bourbon | Current Town | 1843-Present | County seat. |
Fort Scott | Bourbon | Historic Site | NA | Fort was established in 1842 and abandoned in 1865. |
Fort Silbey, Lake Sibley | Cloud | Lost Place | 1867 | A militia station 1867. |
Fort Sumner | Ford | Name Change. | NA | Early name of Fort Atkinson. |
Fort Titus/Tituss | Douglas | Historic Site | None | A Confederate stronghold. Near Lecompton, voting precinct 1854 and 1855. A replica fort has been established in Lecompton. |
Fort Wakarusa | Douglas | Lost Place | NA | A fortification during the days of Bleeding Kansas. |
Fort Wallace, Camp Pond Creek. | Wallace | Historic Site | NA | Two miles south of Wallace. |
Fort Zarah | Barton | Lost Place | 1864 | Established in 1864, abandoned in 1869. Five miles east of Great Bend. |
Fossil Creek, Fossil Station | Russell | Name Change | Now Russell. | |
Foster | Butler | Lost Place | 1899-1905 | It was about five miles northeast of Eldorado. |
Foster Springs | Lyon | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | Foster Springs was southeast of Bushong. |
Fostoria | Pottawatomie | Ghost Town | 1884-187? | Fostoria, Kansas, is a ghost town in Pottawatomie County. It probably started as a station on the Leavenworth, Kansas, and Western Railway, a branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. |
Fountain | Anderson | Lost Town | ||
Fountain | Osage | Lost Town | 1884-1900 | |
Four Houses | Wyandotte | Lost Place | The earliest trading post of record on the Kansas River and the first 19th-century fur depot in Kansas. Sara and Francis Chouteau built it. | |
Four Mile | Butler | Lost Town | 1870-1872 | The post office moved to Lorena. |
Four Mile | Rice | Lost Town | ||
Fourmile | Lyon | Lost Town | 1900-1901 | |
Fourmile | Morris | Lost Town | 1879-1880 | On the county border with Lyon County, the post office moved to Field in 1880. |
Fourmile | Nemaha | Lost Town | None | Located near the present site of Bern. |
Fouse | Lyon | Lost Town | 1890-1895 | |
Fourth Creek | Mitchell | Lost Town | ||
Fowler | Meade | Current Town | It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. Named for George Fowler, town promoter. | |
Fox | Kingman | Lost Town | 1886-1903 | |
Fox Creek | Chase | Lost Town | 1871-1873 1879-1883 |
A farm post office with Murray Tuttle as postmaster. It was about eight miles north of Strong City. |
Foxtown | Crawford | Lost Town | NA | Foxtown was a mining camp located two miles east of Franklin. It once had a school, a church, and several business buildings. |
Francella | Sheridan | Lost Town | ||
Frankfort | Marshall | Current Town | It was on the Oregon Trail. The Black Vermillion River Crossing was to the southwest. Later it was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. | |
Franklin | Crawford | Extinct Town | 1908-2009 | The post office closed on May 16, 2009. |
Franklin | Douglas | Lost Town | 1855-1867 | Founded in October 1853, it was a pro-slavery stronghold during Territorial Kansas. |
Franklin County | Franklin | Current County | NA | One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Ottawa is the county seat. |
Franks Ford | Marshall | Name Change | Now Frankfort. | |
Frankton | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
Fred | Marion | Lost Town | 1883-1901 | Fred was between Peabody and Hillsboro. |
Frederick | Rice | Current Town | ||
Fredericksburg | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
Fredericktown | Coffey | Lost Town | 1866-1871 | The post office moved to Bangor. |
Fredonia | Wilson | Current Town | County seat. Founded in 1868. It was on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in 1879. | |
Free Mount | McPherson | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
Free Point | Cherokee | Lost Town | Incorporated 1860. | |
Free Will | Osborne | Lost Town | 1873 | Established in 1873. |
Freedom | Butler | Lost Town | 1874-1900 | Located in Bloomington Township, this farming settlement was formed in 1869 on Hickory Creek in the southeastern part of Butler County. |
Freeman | Pratt | Lost Town | ||
Fremont | Linn | Lost Town | ||
Fremont | Lyon | Lost Town | 1860-1867 1870-1873 1876-1878 |
Fremont was laid out in April 1858. |
Fremont/Smoky/Smoky Hill | McPherson | Lost Town | 1873-1932 | Fremont was located in the northwestern part of the county on a branch line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. |
Fremont | Osage | Lost Town | Two miles south of Burlingame. | |
Fremont | Shawnee | Lost Town | The site was located in 1855 on the Kansas River, west of and adjoining Topeka. | |
Freeport | Harper | Extinct Town | 1879-2016 | With a population of just about four people, Freeport was the smallest incorporated town in Kansas until November 2017, when a vote of 4-0 dissolved the city. It still supports a church and a grain elevator. |
French Valley | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | Seven miles south of Eskridge. | |
Friend | Finney | Extinct Town | 1887-1992 | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The post office closed on April 11, 1992. |
Friendlay | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | |
Friendship | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1889-1901 | Located on Lightning Creek, 12 miles northwest of Columbus and three miles from Sherman. |
Fringer | Meade | Lost Town | ||
Frinkville | Brown | Lost Town | 1878-1883 | |
Frisbie | Johnson | Lost Town | ||
Frisco | Morton | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
Fritchey City | Osborne | Lost Town | Near the mouth of Twin Creek. | |
Frizell | Pawnee | Lost Town | 1904-1933 | A money order post-village and station on the Larned & Jetmore division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. Located seven miles west of Larned, it had a general store in 1910. |
Frog Town, Laramie Creek | Nemaha | Lost Town | Overland station, 12 miles west of Seneca. | |
Front | Allen | Lost Town | 1886-1887 | The post office moved to Bayard. |
Frontenac | Crawford | Current Town | Located north of Pittsburg, it began as a mining camp. It was platted in 1887 when it was given the name of a famous French general. | |
Fruit Land | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1874-1876 | |
Fruitland | Chase | Lost Town | 1879-1880 | The post office was open for less than a year. It was ten miles northeast of Cottonwood Falls. |
Fulda | Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
Fulda | Elk | Lost Town | ||
Fulda | Lincoln | Lost Town | ||
Fuller | Crawford | Lost Town | 1894-1914 | Fuller was a coal-mining town with a Kansas City Southern Railroad station. |
Fuller’s Crossing | Jackson | Lost Place | Crossing of Straight Creek in 1856 on Lane’s Trail 3.5 miles south of present Netawaka, Dr.Fuller, proprietor. This was a station on the Underground Railroad in 1857 and the site of the Battle of the Spurs in January 1859 between John Brown and pro-slavery forces. Brown was escorting approximately 40 slaves to freedom. | |
Fuller’s Ranch, Big Turkey Ranch | McPherson | Lost Town | On the Santa Fe Trail, Fuller’s Ranch was established in 1855 at Running Turkey Creek crossing. | |
Fullerton | Greenwood | Lost Town | ||
Fullerton | Hodgeman | Lost Town | 1889-1913 | A post-hamlet, it was located about 15 miles southeast of Jetmore and eight miles south of Grayling, the nearest railroad station. |
Fulton/Osaga | Bourbon | Extinct Town | 1869-2005 | Fulton, Kansas, a tiny town in northeast Bourbon County, was established in 1869. Initially, it was called Osaga, but it was changed to Fulton in April 1876. It is a semi-ghost town today. |
Funston | Allen | Lost Town | 1892-1901 | |
Fuqua’s | Allen | Lost Town | In Geneva Township. Voting precinct, 1855, south of Leroy. | |
Furley | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1887-1953 | A station on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad 15 miles northeast of Wichita. |