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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
La Blanche	Sherman	Lost Town		Vacated 1905.
La Coy	Crawford	Lost Town	1876-1883	The post office was moved from Strongstown.
La Crosse	Rush	Current Town		County seat.
La Cygne	Linn	Current Town
La Fayette, La Fayette Landing	Doniphan	Lost Town	1857-1871	Steamboat landing c1845. Townsite 1856. Henry Lott, postmaster. Like so many projected towns, Lafayette never achieved an existence of any notable amount.
La Grange	Morris	Lost Town	1868-1871
La Harpe	Allen	Current Town
La Mont’s Hill, Lamont	Greenwood	Current Town		Now Lamont.
La Mont’s Hill	Osage	Lost Town	1871-1887	The post office moved to Vassar.
La Ness	Lane/Ness	Lost Town		On the line of Lane and Ness Counties. 1887.
La Paz	Elk	Lost Town	1872-1874
La Port	Grant	Lost Town		Post office at Shockeyville, 1887.
La Porte/Smithton	Doniphan	Lost Town	1855-1859	The name changed from Smithton to La Porte on February 12, 1858. Incorporated 1860; vacated 1864.
Laban, Labon	Mitchell	Lost Town		Discontinued 1882.
Labette	Labette	Extinct Town	1870-1986	On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. Five miles north of Chetopa. The post office closed on January 17, 1986.
Labette County	Labette	Current County	NA	Formed from Neosho County in 1867. The county seat is Oswego.
Lackman	Johnson	Lost Town	None	A station on the Frisco Railroad, Lackman was three miles north of Olathe.
Laclede-Eagle	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1871-1906	The name changed to Laclede on December 4, 1874.
Lacona	Woodson	Lost Town
Ladore/Fort Roach	Neosho	Lost Town	1867-1901	Located in the southern part of Neosho County, Ladore was first called Fort Roach in honor of James N. Roach, its principal founder. The report of its probably being made the railroad junction, where shops and businesses were to be built, was the cause operating in favor of its rapid advancement, which, for a time, was scarcely paralleled.
Lael	Russell	Lost Town	1904	The post office order of change was rescinded.
Lafayette (Landing)	Doniphan	Lost Town	1857-1871	Entered as a townsite in July 1857 but had existed as a steamboat landing since about 1845 when millwork for the Iowa/Sac & Fox Presbyterian Mission was unloaded at this point. In 1868 there was a sawmill, lumber dealer, dry goods store, grocery stores, physician, and a large hotel. The hotel was moved to Fanning after the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad was constructed in 1870-71. Henry Lott, postmaster.
Lafayette	Stevens	Lost Town		Located west of Liberal.
Lafontaine/La Fontaine	Wilson	Ghost Town	1879-1991	In Talleyrand Township of Wilson County, Kansas, got its start on March 14, 1879, when a post office was established.
Lagrange	Marshall	Lost Town	1875-1901	Located in the southeastern part of the county, about 21 miles from Marysville, it had 25 inhabitants in 1910.
Laing	Rawlins	Lost Town		A settlement in 1879.
Laird	Ness
Lake City	Barber	Extinct Town	1873-1993
Lake Creek	Labette	Lost Town		P.O. 1859.
Lake Fork		Lost Town
Lake Fort Scott	Bourbon	Waterway	NA
Lake Quivira	Wyandotte	Current Town	NA	Lake Quivira, partly in Johnson County, is both a city and a private country club. There is no public access.
Lake Sibley	Cloud	Lost Town	1868	Four miles north of Concordia, same as Fort Sibley and Sibley, located in 1868, abandoned early in the 1870s.
Lake View/Lake Village	McPherson	Lost Town	1870-1889	The name changed from Lake Village to Lake View on June 6, 1872.
Lakeside	Bourbon	Lost Town	1885-1900	Located five miles southeast of Uniontown. W.C. Rose was the first postmaster, and the post office was located in his home.
Lakin	Kearny	Current Town		County seat. It was on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Lakin	Harvey	Lost Town	1872-1873	The post office moved to Halstead.
Lamasco	Graham	Lost Town
Lamb’s Point or Lamb’s Station	Dickinson	Lost Town	1863-1865
Lamoil	Riley	Lost Town	1881-1884
Lamont	Greenwood	Lost Town	1877-1884
Lamont	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1877-1884
Lanark	Pawnee	Lost Town	1878-1883
Lancaster	Atchison	Ghost Town
Landis’ Ferry	Doniphan	Lost Place		Established in 1856 on the Missouri River at Doniphan. John Landis, proprietor.
Landondale, Mount Vernon	Doniphan	Lost Town
Landrum	Clark	Lost Town
Lane	Franklin	Current Town
Lane	Miami	Lost Town	1855-1856	P.O. was established on March 3, 1855, with A.F. Powell as postmaster; abolished in 1856.
Lane County	Lane	Current County	NA	Created in 1886 from unorganized area. Dighton is the county seat.
Lanesburg or Lanes Crossing	Marshall	Lost Town	1863-1868	It was on the Big Blue River between Irving and Blue Rapids.
Lanesfield	Johnson	Lost Town	1861-1870	Absorbed into Edgerton.
Lang/Hortonburg	Lyon	Lost Town	1882-1900 1900-1905 1919-1924	This community, first known as Hortonburg, was established in 1882
Langdon	Reno	Ghost Town	1873-1992	The post office moved from Leonville. Langdon was a station on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad 16 miles southwest of Hutchinson. It is still a very small town with some interesting old buildings.
Lanham	Washington	Ghost Town	1914-1923	Lanham is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Kansas, and Gage County, Nebraska.
Langley	Ellsworth	Lost Town		Located in the southeast corner of Ellsworth County
Lanno	Clark	Lost Town
Lansing	Leavenworth	Current Town	1875-Present	The post office was first called Petersburg. Changed to Lansing.
Lapeer			1873-1902
Lapland	Greenwood	Lost Town	1871-1906	Located in Salem Township, 16 miles northwest of Eureka.
Lappin	Nemaha	Name Change		P.O. 1876; now Oneida.
LaPorte/Smithton	Doniphan	Lost Town	1858-1859	Alfred Barnett, postmaster. Originally named Smithton.
Larimer/Ritchie	Montgomery	Lost Town	1887-1905	The post office moved from Radical City. The name changed from Ritchie to Larimer on February 6, 1890. It was a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad five miles north of Independence. In 1910 its population was 50.
Larimore	Franklin	Lost Town
Larkin	Atchison	Lost Town
Larkinburg/Larkin	Jackson	Lost Town	1872-1963	It was laid out in 1880, although a post office called Larkin had existed since 1872.
Larned	Pawnee	Current Town	1872-Present	The county seat, the town was named after Fort Larned. It is on the Santa Fe Trail and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Lashmet	Kingman	Lost Town	1890-1897
Lasita	Riley	Lost Town	1892-1935
Lasker	Ford	Lost Town	1886-1887	A short-lived Jewish community that hoped to establish a utopian town.
Lasswell	Barber	Lost Town	1905-1931	It was located in Eagle Township, 12 miles southwest of Medicine Lodge, the nearest shipping point.
Latham	Butler	Current Town
Latimer	Morris	Ghost Town		Named for town promotor. It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Laton		Lost Town	1878-1904
Lattaville	Leavenworth	Lost Town
Laura	McPherson	Lost Town
Laurel	Hodgeman	Lost Town	1886-1912	A country post office, it was located in Hallet Township, about ten miles west of Jetmore, the nearest shipping point. In 1910, it had mail tri-weekly and a population of 18.
Laurence	Leavenworth	Lost Town
Lavinia		Lost Town		The Town company was incorporated in 1855.
Lawn	Anderson	Lost Town	1899	The post office was only open for about eight months.
Lawndale	Jackson	Lost Town	1877-1882
Lawnridge	Cheyenne	Lost Town	1885-1896
Lawrence	Butler	Lost Town
Lawrence	Douglas	Current Town		County seat. Named after Amos A. Lawrence, promoter of the Emigrant Aid Society. It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Lawrence No. 2	Doniphan	Lost Town		Near the Missouri River. In 1856 it was a trading post and emigrant campsite on Smith Creek about 2.5 miles southeast of Smithton.
Lawrenceburg/Salt Creek	Cloud	Lost Town	1868-1869 1869-1901	The post office name changed from Salt Creek to Lawrenceburg on January 15, 1869. It was named for L.D. or Frank Lawrence, Cloud County pioneers.
Lawson	Grant	Lost Town	1887-1925	Located about 15 miles southeast of Ulysses.
Layton	Chautauqua			Named for the Layton brothers, pioneer cattlemen.
Layton	Elk	Lost Town
Lazette	Cowley	Lost Town	1872-1880	The post office moved from Jeffersonville. In 1880, it moved to Cambridge.
Leanna	Allen	Lost Town	1881-1920	It was a village in the extreme southern part of the county about six miles southeast of Humboldt,  the most convenient railroad station. In 1910, it had a money order post office, was a local trading center for the neighborhood, and had a population of 50.
Leath’s Town	Marshall	Lost Town
Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Current Town		County seat. The city was organized on June 13, 1854, by 32 people from Weston, Missouri, representing both Free State and pro-slavery positions. On the Leavenworth & Pikes Peak Express and Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Leavenworth County	Leavenworth	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Leavenworth is the county seat.
Leavenworth Ferry	Leavenworth			Established in 1855 on the Missouri River at Leavenworth. Thomas C. Shoemaker, Jarret Todd & Samuel D. Pitcher, Proprietors.
Leawood	Johnson	Current Town
Lebanon	Smith	Current Town		Geographic Center of the Continental United States.
Lebo	Coffey	Current Town		Named for Joe Leabo, a pioneer on Lebo Creek.
Lebo Creek	Coffey	Lost Town	1872-1880
Lebo Creek	Coffey	Stream	NA	Lebo Creek is located 11.3 miles from Burlington, Kansas, in Coffey County. It is also near Hartford, Kansas, in Lyon County. Alternate names for this stream include Sebos Branch.
Lebreton	Leavenworth	1884-1885
Lecompton	Douglas	Current Town		The town company was organized in the winter of 1854-1855 with pro-slavery presidential appointees with political connections in the Bogus Legislature; the territorial capital was established here.
Lee	Hamilton	Lost Town	1886-1891
Lee	Norton	Lost Town
Leesburg	Stafford	Lost Town		Town disbanded in 1912. Located near Stafford, Kansas. Believed to be named for J.H. Lee. Only the old Leesburg Cemetery is left.
Leedsville	Cherokee	Name Change		Changed to Galena.
Leeser	Finney	Lost Town	None	Jacob Warshawski brought his father and about a dozen other Russian Jewish families from New York to settle Leeser in 1886. It was named for Rabbi Isaac Leeser, who was the editor of a popular Jewish magazine, Occident. Many of the inhabitants were related. A blizzard in 1886, a tornado in 1887, and a drought beginning in 1888 led to its demise. By 1890, it was gone.
Leffel	Ness	Lost Town
Leghorn	Pottawatomie	Lost Town
Le Grand/New Arcadia	Osborne	Lost Town
Lehigh	Marion	Current Town
Lehunt	Montgomery	Current Town
Leland	Kingman	Lost Town	1886	The post office was open for less than four months. After it closed, it was moved to Spivey.
Leland	Morris	Lost Town		Discontinued 1882.
Le Loup/Ferguson	Franklin	Extinct Town	1870-1954	In the northeastern part of the county, it started as a station on the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Fort Gibson Railroad in 1870. The name was changed from Ferguson to Le Loup on May 8, 1879. There are still a few homes in the area.
Lena Valley	Lyon	Lost Town	1872-1887	Established in Greenwood County. The site moved to Lyon County.
Lenape	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1868-1943	Lenape was founded in Sherman Township in 1867 on the main line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Lenexa	Johnson	Current Town
Lenora	Norton	Current Town
Leon	Butler	Current Town		On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Leon	Clay	Lost Town		The Town company was incorporated in 1860.
Leon	Morris	Lost Town	1862-1869	The post office moved to Lyona in 1869.
Leona	Doniphan	Extinct Town	1873-1986	Located on the Wolf River in Wolf River Township, started in 1873. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41. It still has scattered homes, buildings, and an active Methodist Church.
Leonard	Sherman	Lost Town
Leonardville, Alembic, Leonard	Riley	Current Town		Named for Leonard T. Smith, president of the Kansas Central Railway. The name changed from Alembic to Leonard and then to Leonardville to avoid confusion with Larned. The town was a Swedish community.
Leopa	Pottawatomie	Lost Town		Four miles north of Fancy Creek; discontinued 1882.
Leopold	Republic	Lost Town	1882-1883
Leota	Norton	Lost Town
Leoti	Wichita	Current Town		County seat.
Leoville	Barton	Lost Town	1880-1881	The post office moved to Nathan.
Leonville	Reno	Lost Town	1873	The post office was only open for six months. It was moved to Langdon. The town was six miles west of Partridge.
Lerado/Netherland	Reno	Lost Town	1874-1904	The town was named after Laredo, Texas but was misspelled when the application went in for a post office.
Leroy	Coffey	Current Town		On the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Leroy	Doniphan	Lost Town		Platted in 1857 just north of Wathena.
Leslie	Reno	Lost Town	1874-1887	The post office moved to Medora.
Lesterville	Saline	Lost Town	1872-1875
Letitia	Clark	Lost Town
Letitia	Thomas	Lost Town
Levant	Thomas	Extinct Town	1888-2004	The post office closed on June 19, 2004.
Levy	Sumner	Lost Town
Lewis	Edwards	Current Town		Named for the Lewis family, town promoters.
Lewis Centre	Republic	Lost Town	1886-1887
Lewis’ Ferry	Atchison	Lost Place		Established in 1854 on the Missouri River at Lewis’ Point, Captain Calvin Lewis, Proprietor.
Lewisburg
Lewiston	Cherokee	Lost Town	1869-1871
Lewiston	Doniphan	Lost Place		Ferry landing opposite Robidoux’s Blacksnake Hills Trading Post in about 1856.
Lexington	Brown	Lost Town	1856
Lexington	Clark	Lost Town
Lexington	Johnson	Lost Town	1857-1863	Incorporated 1857. This small town located three miles south of DeSoto was laid out in 1857 by pro-slavery settlers.
Lexington	Nemaha	Lost Town	NA	Situated on the Lane’s Trail, Lexington was a stop on the Underground Railroad that came through the eastern part of the county. Three miles southeast of present Sabetha,
Lima	Elk	Lost Town	1874-1887
Lott	Barton	Lost Town	1880-1882
Merchant		Lost Town		Vacated 1864. Fifteen miles east of Lawrence.
Lexington	Osage	Lost Town
Liberal	Seward	Current Town		County seat. Named after a pioneer who led thirsty travelers to free water. When a town was established in 1888 at “the liberal well,” the town was named Liberal. It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1888
Liberty	Montgomery	Current Town		Moved to the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad
Lida	Chase	Lost Town	1876-1888	The post office was at Prairie Hill, with Bill Spencer as postmaster. It was six miles southwest of Cottonwood Falls.
Liebenthal	Rush	Current Town	1880 1891-2011	Established in 1876 by immigrants from the Saratov/Volga region of Ukraine in Russia.
Lieblichdorp	Rush	Lost Town		The German name for Pleasant Dale.
Lilly	McPherson	Lost Town	1874-1879
Lily	Morris	Lost Town	1881-1887
Lima	Allen	Lost Town
Lima	Clay	Lost Town
Lima	Elk	Lost Town
Limestone	Washington	Lost Town	1864-1872
Lincoln	Bourbon			See Fort Lincoln.
Lincoln	Clay	Lost Town		Incorporated 1860.
Lincoln	Nemaha	Lost Town	1861-1868	Named for Abraham Lincoln. It was established in 1860 at the crossing of the South Fork of the Nemaha River. Founded by J. E. Hocker. Luther Jones, postmaster.
Lincoln/Lincoln Centre	Lincoln	Current Town		County seat. Named for Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln City	Greenwood	Lost Town
Lincoln County	Lincoln	Current County		Created from unorganized area in 1867. Lincoln is the county seat.
Lincolnville	Marion	Current Town
Lindale	Osage	Lost Town		See Fairfax.
Lindale, Linndale	Rush	Lost Town	1888-1905
Lindon	Nemaha	Lost Town
Lindsborg	McPherson	Current Town		The primary colony from Sweden was located at Lindsborg. Dr. Carl Swensson was the pastor of the Bethany Lutheran Church in 1881 when he founded Bethany College.
Lindsey	Ottawa	Lost Town		Named for a pioneer.
Line	Greenwood	Lost Town	1878-1879	Established in Lyon County (site moved.)
Line	Lyon	Lost Town
Line	Reno	Lost Town	1879	The post office was only open for three months
Linn	Washington	Current Town
Linn County	Linn	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Mound City is the county seat.
Linn Valley	Linn	Current Town
Linnville	Linn	Lost Town	None	Once the county seat, it was located about three miles east of Farlinville.
Linton/Miami/Woytown	Linn	Lost Town	1881-1903	Located about eight miles south of Pleasanton, it was first called Woytown
Linwood	Leavenworth	Current Town		On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad and the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Lionstone	Crawford	Lost Town
Lisbon	Chautauqua	Lost Town
Litchfield	Crawford	Lost Town	1878-1903	Litchfield was a busy coal-mining town on Carbon Creek. It was first called Edwin but was renamed Litchfield in 1881. It was located four miles northeast of New Pittsburg.
Little Arkansas	Rice	Lost Town		Station on Santa Fe Trail, about 36 miles east of Ellinwood.
Little Dutch	Cowley	Name Change		Now Akron.
Little Grasshopper Creek Bridge	Atchison	Lost Place		Established in about 1850 on the Ft. Leavenworth & Ft. Laramie road. A farmer named Howell lived at this crossing in 1860. It was six miles from Kennekuk.
Little Oak	Jewell	Lost Town	1879-1880	Little Oak was in the southwestern corner of Jewell County, eight miles north of Cawker City, from which it receives a daily mail after its post office closed.
Little River	McPherson	Lost Town	1875-1877
Little River	Rice	Current Town
Little Santa Fe	Johnson	Lost Town
Little Stranger	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1860-1866	The post office moved to Kelly’s Station. Two miles south of Penitentiary Station.
Little Town or Little Osage Town	Labette	Lost Town		Now part of Oswego. Its Indian name was Kee-i-tone.
Little Valley	McPherson	Lost Town	1873-1888
Little Walnut	Butler	Name Change	1870	Established 1870; now Leon.
Littledale	Dickinson	Lost Town	1884	The post office was only open for about five months.
Littleton	Sumner	Lost Town	1871-1879	The post office moved to Mulvane. Littleton was three miles south and one mile east of Mulvane on 120th Ave North on the east side of the Arkansas River.
Liverpool	Grant	Lost Town	1888-1898 1899-1903	The post office was originally established in Stanton County. It closed in 1898 and moved to Grant County.
Livingston	Cherokee	Lost Town		it was on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Livingston	Stafford	Lost Town
Locknan, Powhattan	Brown	Lost Town		The name changed to Powhattan; It was a Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express station.
Loco
Lockport	Gray	Lost Town		Vacated 1893.
Lockport	Haskell	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Loco	Haskell	Lost Town		Vacated 1891.
Loco	Seward	Lost Town
Locust	Greeley	Lost Town	1913-1919
Locust Grove	Atchison	Lost Town	1862-1887	The post office moved from Mount Pleasant.
Loda Center	Reno	Lost Town	None	It had a school with an enrollment of 34 in the early 1900s. It was located between Lerado and Pretty Prairie, at the intersection of Pretty Prairie Road and Hodge Road.
Lodi	Barber	Lost Town	1877-1895	A small village in southern of Barber County, stock raising was its chief industry. In 1885, it had semi-weekly mail delivered by stagecoach. It was 17 miles southwest of Medicine Lodge, the county seat, and 42 miles east of Harper, its nearest railroad point.
Lodiana	Rice	Lost Town
Loette	Kingman	Lost Town
Log Chain	Nemaha	Lost Town	1864-1868	Log Chain, Kansas, was established in Nemaha County in 1860 as a Pony Express Station with H. Rising, the proprietor. John Hazzard was the first. postmaster.
Logan	Phillips	Current Town
Logan County	Logan	Current County	NA	Formed from Wallace County in 1888. It was first called St. John County. Oakley is the county seat.
Logansport	Logan	Lost Town	1887-1888 1912-1915	It was laid out in 1887 by the Union Pacific Railroad Town Site Company.
Lois	Sherman	Lost Town
Lola	Barber	Lost Town	1875-1878	The post office moved to Springvale.
Lola	Cherokee	Lost Town	1867-1869	The post office moved to Millersburgh.
Lombard	Greeley	Lost Town	1887	The post office was only open for three months.
London	Sumner	Lost Town	1871-1887	It was four miles west and four miles north of Belle Plaine at 130th Ave North and Seneca Road.
London Falls	Dickinson	Lost Town
Lone Elm	Anderson	Current Town
Lone Elm	Chautauqua	Lost Town
Lone Elm Campground	Johnson	Lost Place		Established in 1825 at the head of Cedar Creek on Santa Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri. It was located south of Olathe.
Lone Oak	Crawford	Lost Town	1884-1886	A coal mining camp northwest of Pittsburg on the other side of Cow Creek.
Lone Star/Bond	Douglas	Extinct Town	1875-1953	First settled in 1854 by pro-slavery advocates who wanted slavery to be legal in Kansas Territory. The town’s name changed from Bond to Lone Star in 1899. This area still has an active church, another commercial building, and several area homes.
Lone Star	Sumner	Lost Town	1875-1876
Lone Tree	Cherokee	Lost Town
Lone Tree	Cowley	Lost Town	1870-1872
Lone Tree/Empire	McPherson	Lost Town	1872-1888	The name changed from Lone Tree to Empire on August 10, 1880.
Lone Tree	Sumner	Lost Town		See Darien.
Lone Walnut	Lincoln	Lost Town	1878-1887 1888-1900
Long Branch	Norton	Lost Town
Long Island	Phillips	Current Town
Longford	Clay	Current Town
Longton	Elk	Current Town
Lookout	Clay	Lost Town
Lookout	McPherson	Lost Town	1879-1880
Lookout Station, Lookout Hollow	Ellis	Lost Town		Overland station, six miles south of Hays.
Loraine, Lorraine	Nemaha	Lost Town	-2017	The post office closed on November 18, 2017.
Lorena	Butler	Lost Town	1872-1902	The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad went through the land of Stephen Harrison Chase, and a townsite was laid out. When Andover was laid out, Lorena died.
Lorenz	Finney	Lost Town	1887-1889	Lorenz was located in the southeast corner of Garfield Township. It had a post office and several places of business during the boom years of 1886-1888. It was vacated in 1893.
Lorette	Kingman	Lost Town
Loring/Indianola	Shawnee	Lost Town
Loring	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1877-1954	Loring was the last station on the Union Pacific Railroad in the county. It is now a neighborhood of Bonner Springs.
Lorette	Kingman	Extinct Town	1877-1883	The post office moved to Oakland when it closed.
Loretto	Rush	Lost Town	None	Established in 1912, the settlers of Loretto were an offshoot of the Pfeifer Catholic parish in nearby Ellis County.
Loring	Shawnee	Lost Town	1855	The post office was only open for 11 months before moving to Indianola.
Lorraine	Ellsworth	Current Town
Lost Creek	Linn	Lost Town	1873-1877
Lost Creek Toll Road	Pottawatomie	Lost Place	None	A corduroy road was established in 1855, about four miles east of the Red Vermillion crossing of the Oregon Trail. In 1844,  James Clyman and Nathaniel Ford pioneered a new trail up Lost Creek to cross the Red Vermillion River near present Laclede and rejoin the original trail at Rock Creek (Westmoreland.)
Lost Spring, Lost Spring  Station	Marion	Lost Place	1861-1864	Old Lost Springs was a watering place and trading post on the Santa Fe Trail. It was located about 15 miles west of Diamond Springs.
Lost Springs	Marion	Current Town	1879-Present	on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Lostine, Petersville	Cherokee	Lost Town	1866-1879	The name changed from Petersville to Lostine in 1869. The post office moved to Beaumont in 1879.
Lott	Barton	Lost Town
Louisa Springs		Lost Place		Overland station.
Louisburg	Miami	Current Town
Louisburg	Montgomery	Lost Town
Louise	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1877-1880
Louisiana	Douglas	Paper Town		A paper town, later Salem, was incorporated in 1855. Two miles northwest of Baldwin.
Louisville/Rock Creek	Pottawatomie	Current Town	1856-Present	Louisville, Kansas, is a small town in south-central Pottawatomie County. As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 131. It was first called Rock in 1856 and changed its name to Louisville on July 19, 1867.
Lovejoy	Clay	Lost Town	1873-1876	The post office moved to Industry.
Lovewell-Lovewell Station	Jewell	Lost Town	1888-1972	Lovewell, Kansas, is a ghost town in Sinclair Township of Jewell County. In 1910, it had express and telegraph offices, a post office, and a population of 200. By 1915, Lovewell was being hailed as the fastest-growing town in the county.
Lowe	Finney	Lost Town		Named for Thaddeus Lowe, a military man.
Lowell	Cherokee	Lost Town	1868-1905	Located on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. It was named for the town promoter.
Lowell	Rooks	Lost Town
Lowemont	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1888-1938	Located in the county’s northern portion on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Lower Robidoux Crossing	Marshall	Lost Place	None	Crossing of Vermillion Creek, south of Beattie, Kansas. The following names are carved on rocks on the west bank: Michel Robidoux, James Bridger, C.F. Smith, J. S. Jones, J. Frey & L. Row. Life Cemetery is on the west side of the creek.
Loyal-Pansy-Pattenville	Finney	Lost Town	1880-1881 1882-1899	This place was first called Pattenville but was changed to Pansy on November 28, 1881. The name was changed again on March 3, 1882, to Loyal.
Lucas	Russell	Current Town
Lucas/Marshall	Pawnee	Lost Town	1878-1894	The name changed to Marshall in 1886.
Lucerne	Rooks	Lost Town
Lucerne	Sheridan	Lost Town		Located 12 miles northeast of Hoxie. Only the cemetery is left now. A B Shoemaker, a state representative. owned the largest herd of longhorn cattle in the state in the late 1800s.
Lucretia, California	Lane	Lost Town
Luctor	Phillips
Ludell	Rawlins		1876-2002	This place went through a series of names – Prag (1876-79), Kelso (1879-80), Danube, and Ludell in 1881. Its post office closed on September 28, 2002.
Luella	Bourbon	Lost Town		Chartered 1858.
Lulie	Gove	Lost Town
Lulu	Mitchell	Lost Town
Lulu Valley	Pratt	Lost Town
Lund	Kingman	Lost Town	1885-1886
Lura	Russell	Lost Town
Luray/Lurray	Russell	Current Town
Lusk	Cherokee	Lost Town	1898	The post office was only open for 11 days. Order of change rescinded.
Luther	Morris	Lost Town	1880-1887	It was about 2.5 miles from Dwight.
Luther	Washington	Lost Town	1895-1904	Though the post office was authorized, it was never in operation. This hamlet was located 12 miles southwest of Washington, the county seat, five miles from Palmer, the nearest shipping point, and ten miles from Clifton, the post office from which it received its mail.
Luzerne	Sheridan	Lost Town
Lydia	Wichita
Lyle	Decatur
Lyna	Geary	Lost Town		Founded in 1854.
Lyndon	Osage	Current Town		County seat.
Lynn Creek	Shawnee	Lost Town	1872-1874
Lyon	Miami	Lost Town
Lyon County	Lyon	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. It was first called Breckenridge County. Emporia is the county seat.
Lyona	Dickinson	Lost Town	1869-1888	The post office moved from Leon.
Lyons	Rice	Current Town		County seat. It was on the Santa Fe Trail. Freeman J. Lyons laid out the town in 1876. Its major industry was salt. The first salt shaft was sunk in 1890.
Lura	Russell	Lost Town	1872-1888	The post office moved to Luray when it closed.

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