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| Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
| La Grange | Morris | Lost Town | 1868-1871 | |
| Laban, Labon | Mitchell | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
| Labette | Labette | Lost Town | Five miles north of Chetopa, 1867; moved to Chetopa. | |
| La Blanche | Sherman | Lost Town | Vacated 1905. | |
| La Coy | Crawford | Lost Town | 1876-1883 | The post office was moved from Strongstown. |
| 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. |
| Lacona | Woodson | Lost Town | ||
| Ladore | Neosho | Lost Town | Established 1870. | |
| Lafayette | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
| Laing | Rawlins | Lost Town | A settlement in 1879. | |
| Lake Creek | Labette | Lost Town | P.O. 1859. | |
| Lake Fork | Lost Town | |||
| Lake Sibley | Cloud | Lost Town | 1868 | Four miles north Concordia, same as Fort Sibley and Sibley, located in 1868; abandoned early in the 1870s. |
| Lake View | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Lake Village | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Lamasco | Graham | Lost Town | ||
| Lamb’s Point or Lamb’s Station | Dickinson | Name Change | Now Detroit | |
| Lamont | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
| La Mont’s Hill | Greenwood | Lost Town | Now Lamont. | |
| Lanark | Pawnee | Lost 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 | 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 | Marshall | Lost Town | ||
| Lanesfield | Johnson | Lost Town | 1861-1870 | Absorbed into Edgerton. |
| La Ness | Lane/Ness | Lost Town | On the line of Lane and Ness Counties. 1887. | |
| Lang/Hortonburg | Lyon | Lost Town | 1882-1900 1900-1905 1919-1924 |
This community, first known as Hortonburg was established in 1882 |
| Lanno | Clark | Lost Town | ||
| La Paz | Lost Town | |||
| La Port | Grant | Lost Town | Post office at Shockeyville, 1887. | |
| La Port | Doniphan | Lost Town | P.O. 1859; incorporated 1860; vacated 1864; formerly Smithton. | |
| Lapland | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1871-1906 | Located in Salem Township 16 miles northwest of Eureka. |
| Lappin | Nemaha | Name Change | P.O. 1876; now Oneida. | |
| Larimore | Franklin | Lost Town | ||
| Larkin | Atchison | Lost Town | ||
| Lasker | Ford | Lost Town | 1886-1887 | A short-lived Jewish community that hoped to establish a utopian town. |
| Lattaville | Leavenworth | Lost Town | ||
| Laura | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Laurence | Leavenworth | Lost Town | ||
| Lavinia | Lost Town | Town company was incorporated in 1855. | ||
| Lawndale | Jackson | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
| Lawrence | Butler | Lost Town | ||
| Lawrence No. 2 | Doniphan | Lost Town | Near the Missouri River. | |
| Lawrenceburg | Cloud | Lost Town | 1879 | Located in 1879. |
| Lawson | Grant | Lost Town | 1887-1925 | Located about 15 miles southeast of Ulysses. |
| Layton | Elk | Lost Town | ||
| Lazette | Cowley | Lost Town | 1872-1880 | The post office moved from Jeffersonville. In 1880, it moved to Cambridge. |
| Leath’s Town | Marshall | Lost Town | ||
| 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. | ||
| Lebreton | Leavenworth | 1884-1885 | ||
| Lee | Norton | Lost Town | ||
| Leedsville | Cherokee | Name Change | Changed to Galena. | |
| Leffel | Ness | Lost Town | ||
| Leghorn | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | ||
| Le Grand | Osborne | Lost Town | See New Arcadia. | |
| Leland | Morris | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
| Lena Valley | Lyon | Lost Town | 1872-1887 | Established in Greenwood County. Site loved 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. |
| Leon | Clay | Lost Town | Town company was incorporated in 1860. | |
| Leon | Morris | Lost Town | 1862-1869 | The post office moved to Lyona in 1869. |
| Leonard | Sherman | Lost Town | ||
| Leopa | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | Four miles north Fancy Creek; discontinued 1882. | |
| Leota | Norton | Lost Town | ||
| Leoville | Barton | Lost Town | 1880-1881 | The post office moved to Nathan. |
| Leroy | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
| Leslie | Reno | Lost Town | ||
| Lesterville | Saline | Lost Town | ||
| Letitia | Clark | Lost Town | ||
| Letitia | Thomas | Lost Town | ||
| Levy | Sumner | Lost Town | ||
| Lewis’ Ferry | Atchison | Lost Place | Established in 1854 on the Missouri River at Lewis’ Point; Captain Calvin Lewis, Proprietor. | |
| Lewiston | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1869-1871 | |
| Lewiston | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
| Lexington | Brown | Lost Town | 1856 | |
| 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, |
| Lott | Barton | Lost Town | 1880-1882 | |
| Merchant | Lost Town | Vacated 1864. Fifteen miles east of Lawrence. | ||
| Lexington | Osage | Lost Town | ||
| Liberty | Montgomery | Lost Town | Moved to the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad | |
| Lida | Chase | Lost Town | ||
| Lieblichdorp | Rush | Lost Town | German name for Pleasant Dale | |
| Lilly | McPherson | Lost Town | ||
| Lily | Morris | Lost Town | 1881-1887 | |
| Lima | Allen | Lost Town | ||
| Lima | Clay | Lost Town | ||
| Lima | Elk | Lost Town | ||
| Limestone | Washington | Lost Town | ||
| 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. |
| Lincoln City | Greenwood | Lost Town | ||
| Lincoln County | Lincoln | Current County | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Lincoln is the county seat. | |
| Lindale | Osage | Lost Town | See Fairfax. | |
| Lindon | Nemaha | Lost Town | ||
| Line | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1878-1879 | Established in Lyon County (site moved.) |
| Line | Lyon | Lost Town | ||
| Linn County | Linn | Current County | NA | One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Mound City is the county seat. |
| 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 |
| Lionstone | Crawford | Lost Town | ||
| Lisbon | Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
| Litchfield | Crawford | Lost Town | 1878-1903 | Litchfield was a busy coal-mining town on Carbon Creek |
| 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 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 | ||
| Little Walnut | Butler | Name Change | 1870 | Established 1870; now Leon. |
| Littleton | Sumner | Lost Town | ||
| 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 | ||
| Livingston | Stafford | Lost Town | ||
| Lockport | Gray | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
| Lockport | Haskell | Lost Town | Vacated 1903. | |
| Loco | Haskell | Lost Town | Vacated 1891. | |
| Loco | Seward | Lost Town | ||
| Locust Grove | Atchison | Lost Town | 1862-1887 | The post office moved from Mount Pleasant. |
| Lodi | Barber | Lost Town | ||
| 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. |
| 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 | ||
| Lola | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1867-1869 | The post office moved to Millersburgh. |
| London | Sumner | Lost Town | ||
| London Falls | Dickinson | Lost Town | ||
| Lone Elm Campground | Johnson | Lost Place | Established in 1825 at the head of Cedar Creek on Santa Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri. | |
| Lone Elm | Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
| 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 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 | ||
| Lone Tree | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
| Lone Tree | Sumner | Lost Town | See Darien. | |
| Lone Walnut | Lincoln | Lost Town | ||
| Long Branch | Norton | Lost Town | ||
| Lookout | Clay | Lost Town | ||
| Lookout Station, Lookout Hollow | Ellis | Lost Town | Overland station; six miles south of Hays. | |
| Loraine, Lorraine | Nemaha | Lost Town | ||
| Lorena | Butler | Lost Town | See Smithfield. | |
| Lorenz | Finney | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
| Lorette | Kingman | Lost Town | ||
| Loring | Shawnee | Lost Town | See Indianola. | |
| Lost Creek | Linn | Lost Town | 1873-1877 | |
| Lost Creek Toll Road | Pottawatomie | Lost Place | 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 near present Laclede, and rejoin the original trail at Rock Creek (Westmoreland.) | |
| 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 | Montgomery | Lost Town | ||
| Louise | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
| Louisiana | Douglas | Lost Town | Paper Town | A paper town, later Salem, was incorporated in 1855. Two miles northwest of Baldwin. |
| Lovejoy | Clay | Lost Town | ||
| Lowell | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1868-1905 | Located on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad . |
| Lowell | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Lowemont | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1888-1938 | Located in the northern portion of the county on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. |
| Lower Robidoux Crossing | Marshall | Lost Place | NA | 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 | Finney | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
| Lucas | Pawnee | Lost Town | ||
| Lucerne | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
| Lucretia, California | Lane | Lost Town | ||
| Luella | Bourbon | Lost Town | Chartered 1858. | |
| Lulie | Gove | Lost Town | ||
| Lulu | Mitchell | Lost Town | ||
| Lulu Valley | Pratt | Lost Town | ||
| Lura | Russell | Lost 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 | |
| Luzerne | Sheridan | Lost Town | ||
| Lyna | Geary | Lost Town | Founded in 1854. | |
| Lynn Creek | Shawnee | Lost Town | ||
| 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 |