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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
Iago, Igo	Rooks	Lost Town
Iatan Ferry		Lost Place	NA	This ferry operated from 1855-61 on the Missouri River. Formerly Daugherty’s Landing, Nimrod Farley, proprietor.
Iantha or Ianthe	Anderson	Lost Town		Laid out in 1856, it was the first town laid out in the county. The name was changed to Kansas City, and the townsite was abandoned in 1858.
Ibaton	Jewell	Lost Town	1873-1886	Ibaton was a farming settlement in Esbon Township, in the western central part of Jewell County. In 1880, it had a population of about 200, a stone Catholic Church building, Methodist and United Brethren congregations, a school, and a grocery store.
Ida	Harper	Lost Town		Near Albion.
Ida	Republic	Lost Town	1873-1885	It was located in 1872 and named for Miss Ida Williams, daughter of a pioneer settler.
Idana	Clay	Extinct Town	1882-1980	The name Idana was a combination of the names of two sisters: Ida Howland and Anna Broughton. It was located in Five Creeks Township on the Union Pacific Railroad, seven miles west of Clay Center. The Presbyterian Church, still the center of much activity in town, was built in 1889. The community has a few vacant business buildings and several homes.
Idaville	Reno	Lost Town	1875-1876	The post office moved to Nonpariel.
Idell	Crawford	Lost Town	1870-1901	Idell was situated on Hickory Creek, 12 miles southwest of Girard.
Idenbro	Labette	Lost Town	1887-1901	Idenbro was a Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad station in Labette Township. It was named for Thomas T. Iden, postmaster.  In 1910, its population was 104, and it received its mail from Parsons. It was five miles southwest of Parsons and 15 miles northwest of Oswego, the county seat.
Idylwild	Clay	Lost Town	1897-1901	A hamlet located 11 miles north of Clay Center. The population in 1910 was 15.
Igo	Rooks			This was a country post office 13 miles southeast of Stockton, the county seat and banking point, and nine miles south . of Woodston, the nearest railway station.
Ilion	Rawlins			Possibly named after Ilion, New York.
Imes/Larimore	Franklin	Lost Town	1877-1917	Named for Harmon Imes, the postmaster. The name changed from Larimore to Imes on May 23, 1887.
Imogene	Reno	Lost Town		It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Imperial	Finney	Lost Town	1888-1932	In 1910, Imperial was a country post office with tri-weekly mail in Garfield Township with a population of 20. It was  23 miles northeast of Garden City and 19 miles southwest of Dighton, in Lane County, which was the nearest railroad station.
Independence	Montgomery	Current Town		County seat.
Independence Crossing	Marshall	Lost Place		A trading post six miles south of Marysville in 1848, located at the point where General John C. Fremont forded the Blue River in 1842 and where the Mormons crossed in later years.
Independence Spring	Atchison	Lost Town		P.O. 1855.
Indian City	Linn	Lost Town		Two miles west of Prescott.
Indian Creek	Elk	Lost Town	1873-1882
Indian Creek	Linn	Lost Town	1862-1868
Indian Creek Campground	Johnson	Lost Place		This emigrant staging area extended several miles from the Missouri State line in a southwest direction and included Indian Creek and its several branches. West of Little Santa Fe, the trail from Independence paralleled Tomahawk Creek, a southern branch of Indian Creek, to the divide east of Lone Elm Campground.
Indiana City/Scranton	Osage	Name Change		Now Scranton.
Indian Valley	Anderson	Lost Place	1861	The post office was only open for about eight months.
Indianapolis	Miami	Lost Town		P.O. 1859.
Indianola-Smithfield	Butler	Lost Town	1871-1902	In Benton Township. The name changed from Smithfield to Indianola on June 1, 1874. It was located 12 miles southwest of Eldorado and eight miles northwest of Augusta.
Indianola	Shawnee	Lost Town	1855-1868	It was founded by H.D. McMeekin and was a pro-slavery settlement north of Topeka.
Industry	Dickinson	Extinct Town	1876-1906	Industry straddles the Clay/Dickinson county line at the Chapman Creek crossing. Amazingly, for a small town without a post office for more than a century, it continues to be called home to numerous residents and has an active Methodist Church. It is located approximately 13 miles north of Abilene.
Inez	Sherman	Lost Town
Ingalls	Gray	Current Town		Located on the Santa Fe Trail. In 1887 Asa T. Soule, a millionaire promoter from New York, laid out the town and named it after Senator John J. Ingalls.
Ingalls	Lincoln	Lost Town
Ingleton/Arnold	Crawford	Lost Town	1871-1872	The name was changed from Arnold to Ingleton on February 26, 1872.
Ingo	Barber	Lost Town
Inland	Greenwood	Lost Town	1862-1863
Inman/Superior	McPherson	Current Town		Also called Superior, it was located on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887;
Inman	Pratt	Lost Town		Established 1879.
Ino	Osage	Lost Town	1899-1900
Inver	Atchison	Lost Town
Invermay	Atchison	Lost Town	1882-1897	A country post office, it shipped grain and livestock, and mail was delivered daily to to John Andrews, the postmaster.
Inyo	Harper	Lost Town		Located one mile from the county line.
Iola	Allen	Current Town		County seat. Founded in 1857 and settled by German immigrants.
Iola	Doniphan	Lost Town	None	Located near the Wolf River, across from the community of Fanning.
Ionia	Jewell	Extinct Town	1871-1982	Ionia, Kansas, is a ghost town near the middle forks of Limestone Creek in the southern part of Ionia Township of Jewell County, Kansas.
Iowa	Ness	Lost Town
Iowa City, Iowa Creek	Crawford	Lost Town	1867 1870-1877	Iowa City was situated two miles southeast of Pittsburg.
Iowa Point	Doniphan	Lost Town	1955-1933	It was located on the Missouri River and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in Iowa Township.
Iowaville	Sedgwick		1874-1902
Irene	Hamilton	Lost Town	1887-1890 1906-1933	A country post office, Irene was located in Bear Creek Township. In 1910, it had tri-weekly mail and a population of 25. The principal occupations were farming and stockraising. It was 15 miles southwest of Syracuse, the county seat.
Irene	Pratt	Lost Town		It was between Wichita and Dodge City.
Irish Creek	Marshall	Lost Place		Located on the south fork of the Black Vermillion River, this was located on the crossing of the Parallel Road In 1859. It was probably the Gilliam Company campsite on June 4, 1844.
Iron Mound	Saline	Lost Town	1866-1868
Irwin	Neosho	Lost Town	1871	The post office was only open for about six months.
Irving	Marshall	Lost town	1860-1960	Irving had a tragic life filled with drought, grasshoppers, & tornadoes before it was finally wiped out with the Tuttle Lake Dam.
Isabel	Barber	Current Town
Island	Neosho	Lost Town	1871-1878 1880-1901	Located in the southeast part of Neosho County, the first settlement was made here in 1869 by L.F. Rogers, and a townsite was established
Island City	Geary	Lost Town	1855
Island Creek	Wyandotte	Lost Town	1866	The post office was only open for a month.
Italia, Florence	Lyon	Name Change		Now Neosho Rapids.
Iuka	Labette	Lost Town	1866-1869
Iuka	Pratt	Current Town		Held the county seat until a redistricting of the area;
Ivanhoe	Haskell	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Ivanpah	Greenwood	Lost Town	1879-1904
Ives	Montgomery	Lost Town	1882-1884
Ivy/Bunker Hill	Lyon	Lost Town	1870 1871-1896	The post office in Bunker Hill was only open for four months in 1870. It was reopened in 1871 and renamed Ivy.
Iwacura	Clay	Lost Town	1882-1894	A country post office in Clay County, it was 18 miles northwest of Clay Center, the county seat, and 12 miles south of Clifton, its nearest banking and shipping point, from which its mail was delivered semi-weekly by stagecoach to James H. Geist, postmaster.
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Jack	Russell	Lost Town	1883-1888
Jackson	Linn	Lost Town	1858-1859 1862-1872	Jackson was the first post office established in Liberty Township on June 30, 1858.
Jackson County	Jackson	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. It was initially called Calhoun County. Holton is the county seat.
Jackson’s Mills	Wilson	Lost Town
Jacksonville	Jefferson	Lost Town	1883-1887
Jacksonville	Neosho	Lost Town	1867-1882	Jacksonville was situated on the corners of Crawford, Neosho, and Labette Counties and within about 100 yards from the corner of Cherokee County.
Jacksonville	Smith	Lost Town
Jaggard	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1889-1905	On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad two miles northwest of Bonner Springs
Jamaica	Greenwood	Lost Town
James Crossing	Jackson	Lost Town	1862-1886	James’ Crossing was established in 1862 on Soldier Creek; John James, Proprietor & postmaster. Post village in 1864. On the post road from Atchison to Louisville in 1864.
Jamesburgh	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1873-1880	Located a little over two miles northwest of Wichita. It was laid out in the winter of 1872-73 and named for James Morgan, the proprietor. It once had a store, shop, and post office, but they were gone by the early 1880s.
Jamestown	Cloud	Current Town
Jamestown Ferry	Doniphan	Lost Place		Established in 1841 at Jamestown Landing on the Missouri River about 7.5 miles above St. Joseph, Missouri, near the mouth of Dillon Creek.
Janesville	Greenwood	Lost Town	1860-1880
Janet	Reno	Lost Town		Located between Arlington and Langdon on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad
Jaqua	Cheyenne	Lost Town	1887-1919	A small settlement located on the south fork of the Republican River in the southwestern part of the county.
Jarbalo	Leavenworth	Extinct Town	1872-1958	There are still several homes in the community and an active church.
Jarvis View, Jarvis Creek	Rice	Lost Town		East of Lyons on Santa Fe Trail.
Jasper	Linn	Lost Town	1898-1901
Jay	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1898-1902	Located about six miles southwest of Easton.
Jay Eau-Jay Eu	Republic	Lost Town	1872-1878 1879-1883	A post office in the southwestern part of Republic County, it was ten miles from Belleville.
Jay Hawk	Chautauqua	Name Change		The name changed to Matanzas.
Jeddo	Allen	Lost Town	1868-1877
Jefferson	Montgomery	Lost Town	1888-1954	Located on Fawn Creek, it was a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was laid out in 1886 when the railroad was extended to that point and named for Albert Jefferson Broadbent, the original owner of the townsite. In 1910, it had an express office, good local trade, a money order post office with one rural route, and a population of 100. It still has several homes, including one that was once a schoolhouse built in 1900.
Jefferson	Republic	Lost Town	1878-1883
Jefferson City	Jefferson	Lost Town	1864-1865
Jefferson County	Jefferson	Current County		One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Oskaloosa is the county seat.
Jeffersonville	Cowley	Lost Town	1870-1872	The post office moved to Lazette.
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Jennings	Decatur	Current Town		Named for Warren Jennings, the postmaster.
Jericho	Gove	Lost Town	1905-1923	Jericho was a country post office in Larabee Township, 12 miles southeast of Gove, the county seat, and 15 miles from Quinter, its nearest shipping point.
Jerome	Anderson	Name Change		The name changed to Central City.
Jerome	Atchison	Lost Town
Jericho	Gove	Lost Town	1905-1923	A small town located south and west of Hackberry.
Jerome	Gove	Lost Town	1886-1943	Jerome was located on the Smoky Hill River in Jerome Township. The town was founded in 1886. Jerome was a flourishing community until the Gove County Aerial Gunnery Range was established in the southwest part of Gove County. The government took over in 1943
Jerusalem	Johnson	Lost Town	1895-1900	Located two miles northeast of Gardner.
Jetmore	Hodgeman	Current Town		County seat. On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Jewell	Jewell	Current Town		Named for Colonel N. H. Billings, a founder of Jewell.
Jewell Center/Mankato	Jewell	Name Change		Now Mankato.
Jewell County	Jewell	Current County	NA	Created from unorganized area in 1867. Mankato is the county seat.
Jimtown	Phillips	Lost Town		Seven miles north of Phillipsburg.
Jingo	Miami	Lost Town
Johnson	Crawford	Name Change		Now Drywood.
Johnson	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1872-1873	The post office was only open for about six months.
Johnson City	Stanton	Current Town		County seat.
Johnson/Veteran	Stanton	Current Town	1887-Present	County seat. The town was initially called Veteran. Changed to Johnson in 1887. On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Johnson County	Johnson	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Olathe is the county seat.
Johnsonville	Jewell	Lost Town	1871-1885	In 1880, it had daily stagecoach service to Scandia and Cawker City. It was located in the southeastern part of Jewell County, 18 miles from Mankato, 12 from Jamestown, and an equal distance from Scottsville.
Johnston	Sumner	Lost Town	None	It was one mile north and 3.5 miles west of Caldwell at 1100 West 160th Street South.
Johnstown	McPherson	Lost Town	1883 1885-1904	Named for John Johnson, the postmaster. A hamlet with a station on the Salina & McPherson branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. It was six miles south of Lindsborg, the nearest significant town.
Jonah	Washington	Lost Town	1898-1902	Jonah was eight miles southeast of Washington, the county seat, and five miles from Greenleaf, the nearest shipping point and the postoffice from which its mail was distributed after its post office closed.
Jones	Morris	Lost Town		On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Jonesburg	Chautauqua	Lost Town
Jonestown	Allen	Lost Town	1875-1879	Nine miles east of Iola.
Jonesville	Brown	Lost Town	1879-1885
Jordon Springs	Reno	Lost Town	1875-1887	Jordan Springs had a school, a store, and a beauty shop. It was located about two miles west and one mile south of Langdon, or 30 miles southwest of Hutchinson.
Josalina	Lincoln	Lost Town	1886	The post office was only open for a few months, from February 23, 1886, to July 28, 1886
Journeycake, Johnny Cake	Leavenworth	Name Change		An Indian village, a stage station, and a post office. It was later called Stranger and now Linwood.
Joy	Kiowa	Lost Town		On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Joy	Lyon	Lost Town
Joy Creek	Washington	Lost Town	1870-1878
Judson	Smith	Lost Town
Julia	Kingman	Lost Town	1889-1908	Located in Ninnescah Township, Julia was on the Missouri Pacific R. R. seven miles southeast of Kingman. The railroad’s name was Alameda. In 1910, it had a general store and a population of 27.
Julian	Montgomery	Lost Town		A paper town.
Junction	Leavenworth	Lost Town		On the Missouri River.
Junction City	Geary	Current Town		County seat. Founded in 1858 near the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers. Originally named Manhattan, it was located on the Smoky Hill Trail. It was a station on the Leavenworth-Pikes Peak Express. Later, it was located on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Juniata, Dyers’ Town	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1855-1856	The Juniata crossing of the Big Blue River was on the Fort Leavenworth-Fort Riley Military Road.
Jurett	Wilson	Lost Town	1871-1887	The post office moved to Buxton.

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