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Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
Pacific City | Douglas | Lost Town | ||
Pacific City | Nemaha | Lost Town | None | Pacific City was established in 1856. |
Padonia | Brown | Lost Town | 1857-1933 | Amazingly, this tiny place that has been extinct for so long still has grain silos, a couple of buildings, and a few area homes. |
Page City | Logan | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | ||
Pageton | Trego | Lost Town | ||
Paint Creek | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1874-1884 | It was seven miles south of Uniontown in Marion Township. The first postmaster was Alfred Monsur. |
Painted Post | Barber | Lost Town | 1878-1882 | |
Painterhood | Elk | Lost Town | 1870-1871 1874-1879 |
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Palacky | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1877-1905 | |
Palatine | Ellis | Lost Town | 1880-1897 | |
Palco | Rooks | Current Town | ||
Palermo | Doniphan | Lost Town | 1855-1904 | An early riverfront town located in Marion Township. Frank Mahan was the first postmaster. At one time, it had stores, a bank, a newspaper, churches, a mill, and a lawyer. |
Palermo Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | Established on the Missouri River in 1855, about 2.5 miles southwest of Wathena. | |
Palestine | Sumner | Lost Town | 1871-1873 | It was four and a half miles north and two and a half miles west of Oxford at 1500 E. 60th Ave North. |
Palmer | Washington | Current Town | Named for J. Palmer, an educator. | |
Palmetto | Marshall | Lost Town | None | Palmetto was incorporated in 1857. It was the north half of Marysville. |
Palmyra | Butler | Lost Town | 1876-1900 | Located in Murdock Township, this hamlet was settled in about 1873 on the south branch of Whitewater River in the western part of Butler County. |
Palmyra/Baldwin | Douglas | Name Change | Now Baldwin. | |
Palo Alto | Neosho | Lost Town | 1870-1872 | |
Pansy-Pattenville-Loyal | 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. |
Pansy | Franklin | Lost Town | 1898-1902 | |
Paola | Miami | Current Town | 1856-Present | County seat. The name came from Baptiste Peoria. The town was first called Baptiste Spring. It changed to Paola. In 1856, Paola was a pro-slavery stronghold in the center of the Bleeding Kansas border war. In 1860, the first oil well West of the Mississippi River was discovered at Paola. |
Pappan’s Ferry | Shawnee | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1842 on the Kansas River at Topeka, Kansas. Joseph Pappan, Proprietor. |
Pappan’s Toll Bridge | Shawnee | Lost Place | It was established in about 1847 over Shunganunga Creek. Joseph Pappan, Proprietor. | |
Parallel | Riley | Lost Town | ||
Paradise | Russell | Current Town | ||
Paris | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1878-1898 | |
Paris | Linn | Lost Town | 1870 | Paris got was a rallying point for pro-slavery men during the Kansas-Missouri Border War. |
Park, Buffalo Park | Gove | Current Town | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | |
Park City/Cosmosa | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1870-1876 | The name changed from Cosmosa to Park City on April 21, 1871. |
Parker | Linn | Lost Town | Named for J. W. Parker, the postmaster. | |
Parker | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1869-1876 1879-1882 1883-1888 |
It was established in the fall of 1869 by H. N. Martin and Colonel D. T. Parker, after whom it was named. |
Parkerfield | Cowley | Current Town | ||
Parker’s/Skiddy | Morris | Name Change | Now Skiddy a ghost town. | |
Parker’s Grove | Hodgeman | Lost Town | See Clawson. | |
Parkersburg | Montgomery | Lost Town | ||
Parkerville | Morris | Ghost Town | Located on the Neosho River in Parker Township. It was incorporated in February 1871 by C. G. Parker, the townsite owner. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. | |
Pardee | Atchison | Lost Town | 1858-1903 | Pardee was one of the oldest settlements in Atchison County. It was established by Caleb May in October 1854. |
Parkerfield | Cowley | Current Town | None | Parkerfield, Kansas, in Creswell Township, is the newest town in Cowley County. It was incorporated in 2004 and had a population of 406 as of the 2020 census. |
Park’s Fort or Old Ogallah | Trego | Lost Town | Moved to the site of Trego about 1870; name changed to Trego in 1876; moved to WaKeeney in 1878. | |
Parma | Norton | Lost Town | 1899 | The post office was only open for about eight months. |
Parnell | Atchison | Lost Town | 1883-1923 | Situated on both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the town was platted in December 1883. |
Parnell Junction | Atchison | Lost Place | In Mount Pleasant Township. | |
Parrott’s Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1846 on the Missouri River about four miles above St. Joseph, Missouri, at Wathena. It later became Wathena Landing. |
Pasadena | Finney | Lost Town | ||
Parsons | Labette | Current Town | Located east of Independence, named for Judge Levi Parsons, promoter and president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. It was incorporated in 1871. | |
Partridge | Reno | Current Town | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
Pattenville-Pansy-Loyal | 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. |
Patmos | Coffey | Lost Town | 1890-1902 | |
Patterson | Harvey | Lost Town | 1888-1927 | A station on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in Lake Township, 20 miles southwest of Newton. In 1910, it had an express office, a money order post office, and a population of 30. |
Patterson | Kingman | Lost Town | 1883-1884 | |
Patty’s Mill | Lyon | Lost Town | 1870-1871 | |
Pauline | Shawnee | It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | ||
Pavilion | Wabaunsee | |||
Paw Paw | Elk | Lost Town | 1872-1890 | |
Pawnee | Bourbon | |||
Pawnee | Geary | Lost Town | 1855 | Incorporated in 1855 by the Bogus Legislature. The post office was established on March 3, 1855, with Fox Booth as postmaster. Pawnee was the first county seat of Riley County and the first territorial capital of Kansas. |
Pawnee County | Pawnee | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Larned is the county seat. |
Pawnee Fork, Fort Larned | Pawnee | Historic Site | National Historic Site | |
Pawnee Ferry | Geary | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1855 on the Kansas River between Pawnee and Riley City, Fox B. Booth, proprietor. |
Pawnee River | Several | Waterway | NA | The Pawnee River, also called the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas River, rises in the northwest corner of Gray County in southwest Kansas. |
Pawnee Rock | Barton | Current Town | On the Santa Fe Trail and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
Pawnee Rock Landmark | Barton | Historic Site | None | A landmark located near Fort Larned in the Pawnee buffalo hunting territory, named for an Indian battle between the Pawnee and Comanche. A natural fortress on the Santa Fe Trail, it became known as the “Prairie Citadel.” |
Pawnee Station | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1871-1945 | |
Pawnee Valley | Hodgeman | Lost Town | 1878-1894 | |
Paw Paw | Elk | Lost Town | 1872-1890 | |
Pavilion | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
Paxico | Wabaunsee | Current Town | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
Paxson | Lost Town | 1885-1887 | ||
Payne | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1884 | The post office was only open for a month. |
Peabody | Marion | Current Town | 1871-Present | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, it was named after F.H. Peabody, the vice of the railroad, in 1875. |
Peace | Rice | Name Change | Now Sterling. | |
Peace Creek | Barton | Lost Town | ||
Peace Creek | Reno | Lost Town | 1876-1905 | It was located at the headwaters of Peace Creek, 28 miles west of Hutchinson. |
Peach Creek | Washington | Lost Town | ||
Peach Grove | Clay | Lost Town | 1872-1885 | A small settlement on Fancy Creek in the northeastern part of Clay County, 14 miles from Clay Center, is the county seat and nearest shipping point. In 1878, it was on the stagecoach line to Greenleaf and Clay Center, from which mail was delivered daily to George Winsworth, the postmaster. |
Peacock | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1901 | The post office was only open for eight months. |
Pearl | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1883-1935 | Located on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, it was 12 miles southeast of Abilene. In 1910, it had a grain elevator, telegraph and express offices, a money order post office, and a population of 35. |
Pearl | Elk | Lost Town | 1877-1881 | |
Pearlette | Meade | Lost Town | Established 1889. | |
Peck | Sedgwick | |||
Pedagogen | ||||
Pekin | Reno | Lost Town | 1897-1905 | It was located 15 miles west of Hutchinson. The population in 1910 was 40. |
Penalosa | Kingman | Extinct Town | 1884-1990 | Originally known as Lotta, this place gained a post office on June 25, 1884. It was platted in 1886 and renamed Penalosa on May 13, 1887, in honor of a Spanish explorer. The post office closed on April 28, 1990. |
Pence | Scott | Named for John W. Pence, the postmaster. | ||
Pendell | Butler | Lost Town | 1871-1880 | Pendell was settled in 1870 on Dry Creek in the Western part of Butler County. In 1878, it had a Methodist Episcopal church, a district school, a blacksmith, a physician, a lawyer, and a justice of the peace. |
Penfield | Labette | Lost Town | ||
Penfield | Osage | Lost Town | 1885-1888 | The post office was open for six months before an order of change was rescinded in February 1886. |
Penitentiary | Leavenworth | Name Change | Now Lansing. | |
Penn | Osborne | Name Change | Changed to Osborne 1873. | |
Penokee | Graham | Extinct Town | 1882-2008 | The post office closed on March 15, 2008. |
Peoria | Franklin | Lost Town | 1857-1934 | The first county seat of Franklin County. It was six miles east of Ottawa. The old Briles one-room school remains. |
Pendell | Butler | Lost Town | 1871-1880 | |
Penseneau, Ponsino | Leavenworth | Lost Town | On the Fort Leavenworth and Oregon Road. | |
Pentheka | Rawlings | Name Change | The name changed to Oak Ranch in 1903. | |
Peoria Village | Miami | Name Change | The name changed to Paola in 1856. | |
Peotone | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
Perkins | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1890-1893 | |
Perris | Elk or Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
Perry | Jefferson | Current Town | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad and the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | |
Perth | Sumner | Extinct Ghost Town | 1882-1954 |
It was located in Downs Township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and Chicago and Rock Island Railroads, 12 miles southwest of Wellington. |
Peru | Allen | Lost Town | 1858 | The post office was open for less than four months before moving to Xenia. |
Peru | Chautauqua | Current Town | ||
Peru/Osborne | Osborne | Name Change | The name changed to Osborne. | |
Peters/Petersburg | Edwards | Name Change | Now Kinsley. | |
Peters | Kingman | Lost Town | 1883-1891 | |
Petersburg | Doniphan | Lost Town | 1858-1859 | Established by Peter Cadue, a Kickapoo trader, in 1857. A. Daugherty, postmaster. Vacated 1863 by Kansas Legislature. |
Petersburg | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1865-1875 | Named for Peter Cadue. The post office moved to Lansing. |
Petersville | Cherokee | Lost Town | The name changed to Lostine. | |
Peterton | Osage | Lost Town | 1876-1904 | A coal-mining town and a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad four miles north of Osage City. |
Petosi, Potosi | Linn | Lost Town | Incorporated in 1857, two miles east of Pleasanton. | |
Petrea | Lost Town | The Town company was incorporated in 1857. | ||
Petrolia | Allen | Extinct Town | 1905-1953 | Only houses are left today. |
Peytonville | Brown | Lost Town | ||
Pfeifer | Ellis | Current Town | -2010 | The post office closed on August 28, 2010. |
Phila | Johnson | Lost Town | 1890-1894 1898-1899 |
This small town was located somewhere near DeSoto and Lexington. |
Phillips County | Phillips | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Phillipsburg is the county seat. |
Phillipsburg | Phillips | Current Town | Named after Colonel William A. Phillips, commander of an Indian home guard regiment during the Civil War. | |
Phil Sheridan | Wallace | Lost Town | See Sheridan, Logan County. | |
Pickwick | Greeley | Lost Town | 1887 | The post office was only open for six months. |
Piedmont | Greenwood | On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. | ||
Pierce | Anderson | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857. | |
Pierce Junction | Brown | Lost Town | 1888-1914 | A station at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroads in the southeast corner of the county, it was located 15 miles from Hiawatha. |
Pierceville | Finney | Extinct Town | 1873-1874 1878-1892 |
On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. The post office closed on April 11, 1992. |
Pillsbury Crossing | Wabaunsee | Lost Place | NA | At Deep Creek on the Manhattan & Wabaunsee Road, Josiah Pillsbury, proprietor. Deep Creek was settled in 1854 by a colony from New England, which included Horace A. W. Tabor. Tabor later moved to Colorado and made a fortune in silver. Near SR 18. 1.8 miles west of Wabaunsee. |
Pilsen | Marion | |||
Pine Grove | Butler | Lost Town | 1874-1895 | Several families settled in Rock Creek Township in 1872. It was on the Muddy River in the northeastern part of Butler County. |
Pinon | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1879-1888 | The post office moved from Battle Creek. |
Pioneer | Johnson | Lost Town | 1897-1900 | Located on one of the creek tributaries of the Kansas River, about seven miles northwest of Olathe. |
Pioneer | Rush | Lost Town | 1878-1893 | |
Pipe Creek | Lost Town | Overland station. | ||
Pipe Creek | Ottawa | Lost Town | ||
Piper | Wyandotte | Extinct Town | 1888-1971 | Piper was west of Kansas City, Kansas, just off K-7 near Leavenworth Road at 110th. Once a railroad town, it was named for a railway official. Annexed by Kansas City in 1991. |
Piqua | Woodson | Current Town | Piqua is two miles into Woodson County, west of the Allen County line. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. | |
Pitt | Finney | Lost Town | 1892-1896 | |
Pitt | Kingman | Lost Town | 1883-1887 | |
Pittsburg | Crawford | Current Town | The name came from a coal region of Pennsylvania. It was founded in the 1870s as a mining camp. In 1878, Robert Layton established a zinc smelter. In 1903, Pittsburg State University was established as the Auxiliary Manual Training Normal School. Franklin Playter platted the town in May 1876. However, there was already a town named Pittsburg in Mitchell County. So, this town was named New Pittsburg until 1880, when an agreement was made with W. A. Pitts, the founder of Mitchell County, Pittsburg, to use the name. His was changed to Tipton. | |
Pittsburg | Mitchell | Name Change | Now Tipton. Initially named for W. A. Pitt, treasurer of the local town company. | |
Pittsburgh | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
Pittsburg Ferry | Pottawatomie | Lost Place | A two-story stone house that stood for many years was probably the Pikes Peak Express stage station in 1859. Near US 24 on Big Blue River opposite Manhattan. | |
Pittsville | Cherokee | Lost Town | ||
Pixley | Barber | Lost Town | 1892-1897 | Pixley was on the rail about 3-5 miles southeast of Medicine Lodge. |
Pitzer Mines | ||||
Plainfield | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
Plains | Meade | Current Town | Also called West Plains, it was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
Plainville | Rooks | Current Town | ||
Platte Valley | Finney | |||
Pleasant Dale, Pleasant Dale, Lieblichdorp | Rush | Lost Town | 1878-1895 | Primarily a German-Russian settlement, it was established about 1877. Lieblichdorp is German for Pleasant Dale. |
Pleasant Grove | Douglas | Lost Town | 1879-1900 | A few homes and buildings remain in the area. Now a suburb of Lawrence. |
Pleasant Grove | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1857-1874 | |
Pleasant Hill | Osborne | Lost Town | 1886-1902 | |
Pleasant Ridge | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1862-1895 | It was located in Kickapoo Township in the northwestern portion of the county, eight miles from Leavenworth. Christian Moser, postmaster. At one point, it had two churches. |
Pleasant Run | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | 1870-1886 | In the early 1880s, the town had a general store run by George W. Duncan. |
Pleasant Spring/Granada | Nemaha | First called Pleasant Spring in 1855, then changed to Granada. | ||
Pleasant Valley | Coffey | Lost Town | Chartered 1858. | |
Pleasant Valley | Cowley | Lost Town | 1871 | The post office was open for less than four months. |
Pleasant Valley | Lincoln | Lost Town | ||
Pleasanthill | Franklin | Lost Town | 1898-1902 | The post office moved from Garlington. |
Pleasanton | Linn | Current Town | Founded in July 1869. The name changed from Potosi to Pleasanton. It was named after General Alfred Pleasanton, who defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Mine Creek. | |
Pleasantview, Pleasant View | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1866-1903 | The county seat in 1866. The name changed from Pleasant View to Pleasantview in 1877. It was located 11 miles northeast of Columbus. |
Plevna | Reno | Current Town | 1877-2011 | The post office closed on March 26, 2011. |
Pliny | Saline | Lost Town | Absorbed by Gypsum City. | |
Ploughboy, Plow Boy | Shawnee | Name Change | The name changed to Redpath in 1881 | |
Plum | Logan | Lost Town | 1904-1906 | |
Plum Buttes | Rice | Lost Town | On the Santa Fe Trail. | |
Plum Creek | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1869-1871 | |
Plum Grove | Atchison | Lost Town | 1862-1868 | The post office moved to Oak Mills in January 1868. |
Plum Grove | Butler | Lost Town | 1870-1888 | In Plum Grove Township. |
Plum Station | Jackson | Lost Town | 1868 | The post office was only open for about four months. |
Plumb | Chase | Lost Town | 1899-1900 | |
Plumb | Lyon | Lost Town | 1878-1896 | |
Plumb Creek | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
Plymell | Finney | Extinct Town | 1886-1894 1918-1925 |
Still has an active church, and an old elementary school still stands. It is located on U.S. Route 83, 11 miles south of Garden City. |
Plymouth | Nemaha | Lost Town | NA | James Redpath and 300 free state settlers joined Preston B. Plumb and approximately 30 men in September 1856. It was a rendezvous point on Lanes Trail. Located on the south bank of Pony Creek, about 2.5 miles north of Morrill. |
Plympton | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1879-1888 | |
Poheta | Saline | Lost Town | 1870-1887 | |
Point of Rocks | Finney | Landmark | None | Landmark on the Santa Fe Trail. |
Point of Rocks | Morton | Historic Place | On the Cimarron Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. | |
Point View | Pawnee | Lost Place | 1879-1912 | A country post office, it was located 11 miles southeast of Larned. |
Poland | Chase | Lost Town | ||
Poleska, Poliska | Riley | Lost Town | Located 1854. Now part of Manhattan. | |
Polo | Cowley | Lost Town | 1874-1885 | |
Pomeroy | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1869-1906 | The next station southeast of Connors, it was platted in the spring of 1871. In the early 1880s, it had several stores and a steam, flour, and sawmill. |
Pomona | Franklin | Current Town | ||
Pond City, Pond Creek | Wallace | Name Change | Later, Fort Wallace. See Camp Pond Creek. | |
Poney Creek | Brown | Lost Town | ||
Ponsino, Pensineau | Leavenworth | Lost Town | On Fort Leavenworth Road and the Oregon Trail. | |
Pontiac | Butler | Lost Town | 1873-1926 | Pontiac was settled in 1871 on Bird Creek in Prospect Township, in the eastern part of Butler County. |
Pontoon | Sumner | Lost Town | 1879-1880 | |
Pony Creek | Brown | Lost Town | 1858-1861 | |
Pop Corn | Osage | Lost Town | 1874-1890 | |
Pope | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1890-1893 | |
Poplar Hill | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1875-1889 | |
Port Byron | Sheridan | Lost Town | ||
Port Landis | Norton | Lost Town | 1874-1879 | Port Landis was formed in 1873 on the north fork of Solomon River in the southern part of Norton County. In 1878, it had a steam sawmill, two churches — Methodist and United Brethren, a district school, a general store, and a doctor. The post office moved to Edmond when it closed. It was 15 miles from Norton, the county seat. |
Port William | Atchison | Lost Town | 1856-1860 | Founded by pro-slavery men, it was incorporated by the Bogus Legislature in 1855. The town furnished 81 members of the “Port William Sharpe’s Rifles” to the Kansas Militia in October 1856. Located halfway between Atchison and Leavenworth on the Missouri River, it faded as its competitors grew. |
Portage | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
Porter’s Ranch | Smith | Lost Town | ||
Porterville | Bourbon | Lost Town | 1882-1905 | It was located in the southwest corner of the county. Levi G. Porter was the first postmaster, and the post office and general store were located in his home. In 1910, the population was 20. |
Portis | Osborne | It was first named Bethany but changed to Portis because the Missouri Pacific Railroad already had a Bethany on its line in Missouri. It was named for a railroad vice president. | ||
Portland | Sumner | Lost Town | 1886-1940 | It was located in Guelph Township on the Kansas Southwestern Railroad 15 miles southeast of Wellington. |
Post Creek | Wabaunsee | Waterway | NA | |
Post-Rock Scenic Byway | Ellsworth, Lincoln, and Russell | Scenic Byway | NA | Making its way over the Smoky Hills of north central Kansas, the Post Rock Scenic Byway winds through 18 miles of fields and prairie across hills, creeks, and valleys, displaying numerous stone fence posts for which this route was named. The byway extends north and south on K-232, connecting with I-70 on the south and K-18 on the north. |
Potomac | Linn | Lost Town | 1882 | The post office lasted only three months. |
Potosi | Linn | Lost Town | 1859-1869 | The settlement got its start in 1856 when a town company, comprised of all pro-slavery men, laid out the townsite. |
Pottawatomie | Coffey | Lost Town | 1882-1906 | Pottawatomie was surveyed in the spring of 1858. It was six miles northwest of Westphalia. |
Pottawatomie City | Anderson | Lost Town | Located in 1857, changed to Mt. Gilead, now Greeley. | |
Pottawatomie County | Pottawatomie | Current County | NA | Formed from Calhoun and Riley Counties in 1857. Westmoreland is the county seat. |
Potter | Atchison | Ghost Town | 1865-2009 | It was close to Leavenworth. The post office closed on May 16, 2009. |
Pottersburg | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1870-1904 | Pottersburg, sometimes spelled Pottersburgh, was laid out and platted by A. S. Potter in June 1874. |
Potwin | Butler | Current Town | ||
Powellsburgh | Clay | Lost Town | 1872-1881 | A post office in Highland Township, near the center of the eastern line of Clay County. It was seven miles east of Clay Center, the nearest railroad point. The post office moved to Green when it closed. |
Powhatan | Brown | Current Town | First named Locknane as a Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express stage station. | |
Powhatan | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1857-1867 | Powhatan got its start in September 1856. Twenty years later, in 1887, another town with the same name was established about ten miles to the northeast |
Powhatan | Nemaha | Current Town | Located in 1887, about ten miles north of the first Powhatan when the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad was constructed. | |
Prag | Rawlins | Lost Town | It was located seven miles below the forks of the Beaver River, near Ludell. | |
Prairie | ||||
Prairie Center | Johnson | Lost Town | 1872-1902 | A village in the western part of the county, it was also known as “Bear Paw” or “Bear Foot.” It was contained within the lands that the government took over for the Sunflower Ordnance Plant during WWII. |
Prairie City | Douglas | Lost Town | Incorporated 1858, second incorporation 1859. Located on the Humboldt Trail. This early-day settlement was southwest of Baldwin. | |
Prairie City | Osage | Lost Town | On the Santa Fe Trail. | |
Prairie Dog Creek | Norton | Lost Place | Was Station 15 on the Leavenworth & Pike’s Peak Express. | |
Prairie Du Chien | Neosho | Lost Town | 1868-1871 | |
Prairie du Chien | Ness | Lost Town | Plat filed in 1869. | |
Prairie Grove | Republic | Lost Town | 1872-1883 | In 1878, Prairie Grove had a Free Will Baptist Church, a district schoolhouse, and a post office in the postmaster’s E.W. Hall’s house. |
Prairie Home | Republic | Lost Town | 1871-1878 | Located in Fairview Township in the central-eastern part of Republic County, it had a post office and a schoolhouse in 1878. Its nearest railroad point was in Hanover, about 30 miles distant. |
Prairie Plain | Republic | Lost Town | 1870-1875 | A small settlement in Creek Township, in the northwestern part of Republic County. The post office moved to New Tabor. It was about 25 miles from Fairbury, Nebraska, a station on the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad. |
Prairie Springs Campsite | Brown | Lost Place | Emigrant campsite at the head of Roy’s Creek on the St. Joseph’s Branch of the Oregon Trail. Near 240th Street, about 4.5 miles east of Hiawatha. | |
Prairie View | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1872-1873 | |
Prairie Village | Johnson | Current Town | ||
Pratt | Pratt | Current Town | County seat. In 1884, it was founded on a site that was once the hunting grounds of Kiowa Indians. It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | |
Pratt County | Pratt | Current County | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Pratt is the county seat. The county was named for Caleb Pratt, Second Lieutenant in the Second Kansas Cavalry, who was killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. | |
Prescott | Linn | Current Town | Originally called Coal Center, platted by James Skinner. | |
Prescott | Osage | Lost Town | Located 1860. | |
Preston | Pratt | Current Town | -1990 | It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. It is about 30 miles from Pratt. The post office closed on April 28, 1990. |
Pretty | ||||
Pretty Prairie | Reno | Current Town | ||
Price | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1895-1906 | It was a station on the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad. |
Pride | Barton | Lost Town | 1879-1883 | |
Princeton | Franklin | Current Town | ||
Princeville | Cloud | Lost Town | 1871-1882 | |
Prospect | Republic | Lost Town | 1878-1888 | The post office moved to Courtland. |
Prosper | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1874-1887 | It was also in Rice County for a time (site moved). |
Prosper | Rice | Located in Farmer Township, it was Bushton’s rival. | ||
Proston | Pawnee | Lost Town | 1878-1883 | |
Protection | Comanche | Current Town | Harvey Titus Rayl was the proprietor of the post office store in about 1876. | |
Providence | Butler | Lost Town | 1881-1896 | In Richand Township. |
Provo | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1897-1901 | A hamlet in the eastern part of Greenwood County. |
Purcell | Doniphan | Extinct Town | 1887-1956 | Named for John Purcell, a pioneer. Still home to the active 1896 St. Mary’s Catholic Church. |
Purcell | Sumner | Lost Town | 1885-1887 | The post office moved to Anson. |
Purdyville | Hodgeman | Lost Town | 1880-1887 | |
Purity | Reno | Lost Town | 1880-1893 | A country store opened in 1979, followed by a post office the next year. |
Putnam | Barton | Lost Town | 1878-1883 | |
Putnam | Harvey | Lost Town | 1891-1907 | A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, located six miles south of Newton and about three miles north of Sedgwick. In 1910, its population was 35. |
Pyramid | Gove | Lost Town | 1888-1891 | Pyramid was platted in 1888 in Lewis Township just southeast of the Monument Rocks. The Pyramid Post Office was established on April 25, 1888. It closed less than three years later. |
Quaker Point | Jewell | Lost Town | 1875-1878 | The post office moved to North Branch when it closed. |
Quaker Valley | ||||
Quakerville | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1880-1887 | |
Quarry | Marion | Lost Town | 1888-1897 | Quarry had a railroad station and a limestone rock quarry. It was approximately 5.5 miles north of Marion. |
Queen City | Coffey | Lost Town | ||
Queen Valley | Reno | Lost Town | 1871-1872 | The post office was only open for seven months. |
Quenemo | Osage | Current Town | ||
Quickville | Lost Town | 1880-1909 | ||
Quincy | Greenwood | Ghost Town | It was on the Benedict Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
Quindaro | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1857-1909 1921-1954 |
Now part of Kansas City. The 70.5-acre Quindaro Townsite is now a National Commemorative Site and an archaeological district. |
Quinter | Gove | Current Town | It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad between Colyer and Park, just off Highway 70. | |
Quinton Heights | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1889-1895 1897-1899 |
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Quito | Butler | Lost Town | 1870-1881 | This village was located on the Little Walnut River in the central part of Butler County, ten miles from El Dorado, the county seat and nearest shipping point. In 1878, it had a Methodist Episcopal Church, a district school, and mail was delivered weekly to A. Ades, the postmaster. |
Quivera | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1889-1896 |