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Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
Pacific City | Douglas | Lost Town | ||
Pacific City | Nemaha | Lost Town | NA | Pacific City was established in 1856. |
Pageton | Trego | Lost Town | ||
Paint Creek | Bourbon | Lost Town | ||
Painted Post | Barber | Lost Town | ||
Painterhood | Elk | Lost Town | ||
Palacky | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1877-1905 | |
Palatine | Ellis | Lost Town | 1880-1897 | |
Palermo | Doniphan | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857 | |
Palermo Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | Established on the Missouri River in 1855 about 2.5 miles southwest of Wathena. | |
Palestine | Sumner | Lost Town | ||
Palmetto | Marshall | Lost Town | Adjacent to Marysville, incorporated 1857. | |
Palmyra | Douglas | Name Change | Now Baldwin. | |
Palo Alto | Neosho | Lost Town | ||
Pansy | Gray | Name Change | Name changed to Loyal. | |
Papin’s Ferry | Shawnee | Lost Place | Established in 1842 on the Kansas River at Topeka, Kansas. Joseph Papin, Proprietor. | |
Papin’s Toll Bridge | Shawnee | Lost Place | Established in about 1847 over Shunganunga Creek. Joseph Papin, Proprietor. | |
Parallel | Riley | Lost Town | ||
Paris | Linn | Lost Town | 1870 | Paris got its as a rallying point for pro-slavery men during the Kansas-Missouri Border War. |
Park City | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
Parker | Montgomery | Lost Town | Established in 1869, and discontinued in 1882. | |
Parker’s | Morris | Name Change | Now Skiddy. Now a ghost town. | |
Parker’s Grove | Hodgeman | Lost Town | See Clawson. | |
Parkersburg | Montgomery | Lost Town | ||
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. |
Park’s Fort or Old Ogallah | Trego | Lost Town | Moved to site of Trego about 1870; name changed to Trego in 1876; moved to WaKeeney in 1878. | |
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. |
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 | ||
Patenville | Gray | Lost Town | Vacated 1893. | |
Patty’s Mill | Lyon | Lost Town | 1870-1871 | |
Pawnee | Geary | Lost Town | 1855 | Incorporated 1855. 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. |
Pawnee County | Pawnee | Current County | 1867 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 Station | Bourbon | Name Change | Changed to Anna in 1903. | |
Pawnee Valley | Hodgeman | Lost Town | ||
Paupaw, Paw-Paw | Elk | Lost Town | ||
Pavilion | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
Peace | Rice | Name Change | Now Sterling. | |
Peace Creek | Barton | Lost Town | ||
Peach Creek | Washington | Lost Town | ||
Peach Grove | Clay | Lost Town | ||
Peacock | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1901 | The post office was only open for eight months. |
Pearlette | Meade | Lost Town | Established 1889. | |
Pendell | Butler | Lost Town | ||
Penfield | Labette | Lost Town | ||
Penfield | Osage | Lost Town | ||
Penitentiary | Leavenworth | Name Change | Now Lansing. | |
Penn | Osborne | Name Change | Changed to Osborne 1873. | |
Penseneau, Ponsino | Leavenworth | Lost Town | On Fort Leavenworth and Oregon road. | |
Pentheka | Rawlings | Name Change | The name changed to Oak Ranch, 1903. | |
Peoria Village | Miami | Name Change | The name changed to Paola, in 1856. | |
Peotone | Sedgwick | Lost Town | ||
Perris | Elk or Chautauqua | Lost Town | ||
Peru | Osborne | Name Change | The name changed to Osborne. | |
Peters, Petersburg, | Edwards | Name Change | Now Kinsley. | |
Petersburg | Doniphan | Lost Town | Located by Peter Cadue; vacated 1864. | |
Petersburg | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1865-1875 | The post office moved to Lansing. |
Petersville | Cherokee | Lost Town | Name changed to Lostine. | |
Petosi, Potosi | Linn | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857, two miles east of Pleasanton. | |
Petrea | Lost Town | Town company incorporated in 1857. | ||
Peytonville | Brown | Lost Town | ||
Phila | Johnson | Lost Town | 1890-1894 1898-1899 |
This small town was located somewhere bear DeSoto and Lexington. |
Phillips County | Phillips | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Phillipsburg is the county seat. |
Phil Sheridan | Wallace | Lost Town | See Sheridan, Logan County. | |
Pierce | Anderson | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857. | |
Pierce | Brown | Lost Town | Vacated 1891. | |
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. |
Pine Grove | Butler | Lost Town | ||
Pinon | Lincoln | Lost Town | ||
Pioneer | Johnson | Lost Town | 1897-1900 | Located on one of the creek tributaries of the Kansas River, about seven miles northwest of Olathe. |
Pipe Creek | Lost Town | Overland station. | ||
Pipe Creek | Ottawa | Lost Town | ||
Pittsburg | Mitchell | Name Change | Now Tipton. | |
Pittsburgh | Doniphan | Lost Town | ||
Pittsburg Ferry | Pottawatomie | Lost Place | At 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 | ||
Plainfield | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
Pleasant Dale | Rush | Lost Town | A Russian settlement; located about 1877; abandoned about 1881 or 1882. | |
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 | ||
Pleasant Ridge | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1862-1895 | |
Pleasant Run | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | ||
Pleasant Valley | Coffey | Lost Town | Chartered 1858. | |
Pleasant Valley | Lincoln | Lost Town | ||
Pleasantview, Pleasant View | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1866-1903 | County seat in 1866. The name changed from Pleasant View to Pleasantview in 1877. Was located 11 miles northeast of Columbus. |
Pliny | Saline | Lost Town | ||
Ploughboy, Plow Boy | Shawnee | Name Change | Name changed to Redpath 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 | ||
Plumb | Lyon | Lost Town | 1878-1896 | |
Plumb Creek | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
Plumb Station | Jackson | Lost Town | ||
Plymouth | Nemaha | Lost Town | NA | James Redpath and 300 free state settlers joined Preston B. Plumb and approximately 30 men at this point 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 | ||
Poheta | Saline | Lost Town | ||
Poland | Chase | Lost Town | ||
Poleska, Poliska | Riley | Lost Town | Located 1854. Now part of Manhattan. | |
Polo | Cowley | Lost 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. | |
Pop Corn | Osage | Lost Town | ||
Pope | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1890-1893 | |
Poplar Hill | Dickinson | Lost Town | ||
Port Byron | Sheridan | Lost Town | ||
Port Landis | Morton | Lost Town | ||
Port William | Atchison | Lost Town | 1856-1860 | Incorporated 1855, second incorporation 1858. Located in Walnut Township, the settlement was situated on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. |
Portage | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
Porter’s Ranch | Smith | Lost Town | ||
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 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. |
Pottersburgh | Lincoln | Lost Town | Located by A.S. Potter. | |
Powellsburgh | Clay | Lost Town | ||
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 |
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.” |
Prairie City | Douglas | Lost Town | Incorporated 1858, second incorporation 1859. | |
Prairie City | Osage | Lost Town | On the Santa Fe Trail. | |
Prairie du Chien | Ness | Lost Town | Plat filed in 1869. | |
Prairie Grove | Republic | Lost Town | ||
Prairie Home | Republic | Lost Town | ||
Prairie Plain | Republic | Lost Town | ||
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 | |
Pratt County | Pratt | Current County | Created from unorganized area in 1867. Pratt is the county seat. | |
Prescott | Osage | Lost Town | Located 1860. | |
Price | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1895-1906 | It was a station on the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad. |
Pride | Barton | Lost Town | 1879-1883 | |
Princeville | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
Prospect | Republic | Lost Town | ||
Prosper | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1874-1887 | Was also in Rice County for a time (site moved). |
Proston | Pawnee | Lost Town | ||
Provo | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1897-1901 | A hamlet in the eastern part of Greenwood County. |
Purity | Reno | Lost Town | ||
Putnam | Barton | Lost Town | 1878-1883 | |
Quaker Point | Jewell | Lost Town | ||
Quakerville | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1880-1887 | |
Queen City | Coffey | Lost Town | ||
Queen City | Reno | Lost Town | ||
Quindaro | Wyandotte | Lost Town | Incorporated 1858; vacated 1871-’72. Absorbed into Kansas City. It is a neighborhood today. | |
Quito | Butler | Lost Town |