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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
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 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 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, educator.
Palmetto	Marshall	Lost Town	None	Palmetto was incorporated in 1857. It was the north half of Marysville.
Palmyra	Butler	Lost Town	1876-1900	In Murdock Township.
Palmyra/Baldwin	Douglas	Name Change		Now Baldwin.
Palo Alto	Neosho	Lost Town
Pansy	Franklin	Lost Town	1898-1902
Pansy	Gray	Name Change		Name changed to Loyal.
Paola	Miami	Current Town		County seat. The name came from Baptiste Peoria. The town was first called Baptiste Spring. It changed to Paola. In 1856 Paola was in the center of the Bleeding Kansas border war. In 1860, the first oil well West of MississippiRver was discovered at Paola.
Papin’s Ferry	Shawnee	Lost Place		Established in 1842 on the Kansas River at Topeka, Kansas. Joseph Papin, Proprietor.
Paola	Miami	Current Town		County seat. Got its start as a pro-slavery stronghold.
Papin’s Toll Bridge	Shawnee	Lost Place		Established in about 1847 over Shunganunga Creek. Joseph Papin, 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, 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 February1871 by C. G. Parker, the townsite owner. 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.
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.
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. Was incorporated in 1871.
Partridge	Reno	Current Town		On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Patenville	Gray	Lost Town		Vacated 1893.
Patmos	Coffey	Lost Town	1890-1902
Patty’s Mill	Lyon	Lost Town	1870-1871
Pauline	Shawnee			It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Pavilion	Wabaunsee
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 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
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		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	Was located at the headwaters of Peace Creek, 28 miles west of Hutchinson.
Peach Creek	Washington	Lost Town
Peach Grove	Clay	Lost Town
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.
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	-1990	The post office closed on April 28, 1990.
Pence	Scott			Named for John W. Pence, postmaster.
Pendell	Butler	Lost Town
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	Lost Town	1882-1954	It was located in Downs Township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the 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.
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		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 1857, two miles east of Pleasanton.
Petrea		Lost Town		Town company 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 bear 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	-1992	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	In Rock Creek Township.
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 located 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 located two miles into Woodson County, west of the Allen County line. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
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. The town was platted by Franklin Playter 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 the Mitchell County Pittsburg to use the name. His was changed to Tipton.
Pittsburg	Mitchell	Name Change		Now Tipton. Originally named for W. A. Pitt, treasurer of the local town company.
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
Pixley	Barber	Lost Town	1892-1897	Pixley was on the rail just 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 distant 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	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 for General Alfred Pleasanton who defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Mine Creek.
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.
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		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	1870-1888	In Plum Grove Township.
Plumb	Chase	Lost Town	1899-1900
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	1879-1888
Poheta	Saline	Lost Town
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
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	In Prospect Township.
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	Morton	Lost Town
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 was located in his home along with a general store. In 1910 the population was 20.
Portis	Osborne			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 vice president of the railroad.
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
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	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
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		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.” 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	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
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
Prospect	Republic	Lost Town
Prosper	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1874-1887	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
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, pioneer. Still home to active 1896 St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
Purcell	Sumner	Lost Town	1885-1887	The post office moved to Anson.
Purity	Reno	Lost Town	1880-1893
Putnam	Barton	Lost Town	1878-1883
Q
Quaker Point	Jewell	Lost Town
Quaker Valley
Quakerville	Cherokee	Lost Town	1880-1887
Quarry	Marion	Lost Town	1888-1897	Quarry had a railroad station and 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		Was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad between Colyer and Park just off highway 70.
Quinton Heights	Shawnee	Lost Town	1889-1895 1897-1899
Quito	Butler	Lost Town	1870-1881
Quivera	Wyandotte	Lost Town	1889-1896

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