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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
Raceburgh	Rooks	Lost Town
Radical/Radical City	Montgomery	Lost Town	1870-1887 1888-1893	It was a country trading point founded in 1869 by Colonel Samuel Young. It was about six miles northwest of Independence. The post office moved to Ritchie.
Radium	Stafford	Current Town	-1990	The post office closed on April 28, 1990.
Raemer Creek	Marshall	Lost Town	1873-1874	It was named for the Raemer Brothers, early permanent settlers. It was located at or near Herkimer.
Rago	Kingman	Extinct Town	1883-1999	The Rago Trading Post was established in early 1883, two miles east and four miles south of the present town site. The post office closed on September 30, 1999.
Ramona	Marion	Current Town	1887-Present
Rancho	Elk	Lost Town	1883-1887
Randall	Brown	Lost Town	1864
Randall	Jewell	Current Town
Randolph	Riley	Current Town
Range	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1883-1890
Ransom	Ness	Current Town
Ransomville	Franklin	Lost Town	1881-1915	It was a coal mining camp in the county’s southwestern part.
Rantoul	Franklin	Current Town	1872-Present
Rantoul		Lost Town	1862-1866
Rapture	Jewell	1892-1893
Ratcliff	Hodgeman	Lost Town	1885-1887
Ravanna-Cowland-Mason	Finney	Lost Town	1979-1922	The name changed from Mason to Cowland on February 15, 1883. The name changed from Cowland to Ravanna on September 25, 1886. In 1910, it had a country post office and a daily stage to Garden City. It was located on the Pawnee River, 28 miles northeast of Garden City and 22 miles north of Cimarron, the nearest shipping point.
Rawlins	Rawlins	Lost Town
Rawlins County	Rawlins	Current County	NA	Created from an unorganized area in 1873. Atwood is the county seat.
Ray	Pawnee	Lost Town	1878-1884 1889-1929	A small village on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, eight miles east of Larned.
Raymond	Rice	Current Town
Rayville/Osage	Bourbon	Lost Town	1858-1861	It was located on the Osage River, about halfway between Fort Lincoln and Mapleton.
Rayville	Norton	Lost Town	1885-1902	Rayville was a country hamlet 20 miles northwest of Norton, the county seat, and eight miles northeast of Almena. In 1894, Alamena was its nearest shipping and banking point, and its population was 28. In 1910, with its closed post office, it received mail by rural delivery from Alemena, the nearest shipping point. At that time, its population was ten.
Reading	Lyon	Current Town
Reager	Norton	Extinct Town	1916-1923	Reager, Kansas, is an extinct town in Norton County. There is very little left today but a couple of buildings and some silos.
Reagle	Norton	Lost Town	1882-1884	The post office moved from Wilmot, Nebraska. It was on the semi-weekly mail stagecoach route from Beaver City, Nebraska, to Norton, from which the mail was delivered to Joseph M. Miller, the postmaster. It was 14 miles north of Norton, the county seat and nearest banking location, and 24 south of Arapahoe, Nebraska, its nearest shipping point. When the post office closed, it was moved to Hanback.
Rebekah	Morris	Lost Town	1872-1873	Moved to Munson in 1873.
Redbank	Kingman	Lost Town	1884-1886
Red Clover	Johnson	Lost Town	1881-1887 1891-1895	Red Clover was located on the county line just outside Kansas City, Kansas.
Red Creek	Barber	Lost Town	1875-1883	Settled in 1875 on Medicine Lodge River in Barbour County, Red Creek was ten miles northwest of Medicine Lodge, the county seat, and 35 from Harper, the nearest shipping point on the Southern Kansas Railway.
Red Rock	Lincoln	Lost Town	1869-1871	M.D. Greene established a post office on April 08, 1869, on Red Rock Creek. It was located five miles east of Lincoln and was named for the red sandstone along the creek banks. The post office moved to Rocky Hill.
Red Rock	Reno	Lost Town	None	It didn’t have a post office, but it had an active Grange. It was two miles southwest of present-day Plevna.
Red Stone	Cloud	Lost Town
Red Vermillion/Vieux Crossing	Pottawatomie	Lost Place		On the Oregon Trail about five miles northeast of Wamego.
Redbud	Cowley	Lost Town	1873-1910	A country post office in Maple Township, 15 miles northwest of Winfield and five miles north of Udall, the nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was ten.
Redd	Norton	Lost Town	1883-1886	A country post office in Norton County, eight miles west of Norton, the county seat, and 15 north of Lenora, its nearest shipping point, from which it exported grain, livestock, and wool. It is on the tri-weekly mail stage route from Norton to Oberlin, from which the mail was delivered to Mary C. Rule, postmaster. In 1885, it had a carpenter, a blacksmith, a broom manufacturer, and a reverend.
Redden	Butler	Lost Town	1875-1885	Redden was located in Fairmount Township, in the northwestern corner of Butler County, about 18 miles from the county seat. Eight miles distant Peabody was the nearest railroad point, and J.J. Lyon was the postmaster.
Redes	Anderson	Lost Town	1858-1864
Redes	Brown	Lost Town
Redfield	Bourbon	Current Town
Redmond	Leavenworth	Lost Town
Redoubt	Clark	Lost Town		On Bear Creek.
Redoubt	Clark	Lost Town		On the Cimarron River.
Redpath/Plowboy	Shawnee	Lost Town	1871-1884	The name changed from Plowboy to Redpath on April 24, 1882. It was near Auburn.
Red Stone	Cloud	Lost Town	1869-1887	Red Stone was situated on the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Redwing	Barton	Extinct Town	1892-1896 1903-1955	Situated on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A few buildings left today.
Redwood	Dickinson	Lost Town	1879-1886
Reeder	Anderson	Lost Town	1882	The post office was only open for about eight months.
Reeder	Dickinson	Lost Town		Near Solomon City.
Reeder	Kiowa	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Reedsville/Heaslyville	Marshall	Lost Town	1870-1902	A post office in Center Township was named for Allen Reed, postmaster, storekeeper, and prominent settler. The name changed from Heaslyville to Reedsville in 1873.
Reedtown	Norton	Lost Town
Reesville	Clark	Lost Town
Reid City	Greeley	Lost Town		Vacated 1897.
Reinert	Ford	Lost Town	1908-1917	Reinert was a country post office located 15 miles southwest of Dodge City.
Reiter	Washington	Lost Town
Remanto	Sumner	Lost Town		See Salt City.
Reno	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1864-1918	It was a station on the Lawrence branch of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Reno	Scott	Lost Town
Reno Center	Reno	Lost Town
Reno County	Reno	Current County	NA	Created from unorganized area in 1867. Hutchinson is the county seat.
Republic	Republic	Current Town
Republican City-Five Creeks	Clay	Lost Town	1868-1875	The name changed from Five Creeks to Republican City on May 12, 1869.
Republic County	Republic	Current County	NA	Formed from Washington County in 1868. Belleville is the county seat.
Republican River Military Bridge	Geary	Lost Place		It was established in about 1856 on the west edge of Fort Riley near the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Forks of the Kansas River. Constructed by U.S. Army Engineers. This place is probably Custer Road over the Republican River at Junction City.
Reserve	Brown	Current Town	1882-1983	Reserve got its start as a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was named for its location on a former Sac & Fox Indian reservation. It is technically extinct but still has several buildings and a small population.
Rest	Wilson	Lost Town	1877-1955	A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, it was located on the line between Colfax and Pleasant Valley Townships, 14 miles northeast of Fredonia.
Retreat	Hodgeman	Lost Town	1879	The post office was only open for about five months.
Reubens	Jewell	Lost Town
Reviere	Woodson	Name Change		Now Toronto.
Rex	Sumner	Lost Town
Rexford	Thomas	Current Town
Rhodes	Anderson	Lost Town
Rhodes	Dickinson	Lost Town	1878-1896
Rialto Ferry	Leavenworth	Lost Place		Operational 1844-65 on the Missouri River between Rialto, Missouri (extinct) & Fort Leavenworth, John B. Wells, proprietor. Rialto may have been located south of Weston near Kirk Bottom Road in Platte County, Missouri.
Rice	Cloud	Lost Town	1878-1980	An extinct town today, it continues to have a small population, homes, grain silos, and an old business building.
Rice County	Rice	Current County	NA	Created from unorganized area in 1867. Lyons is the county seat.
Riceville	Cherokee	Lost Town	1895	The post office was only open for six months. Order of change rescinded.
Rich	Anderson	Lost Town	1872-1883	This place was settled in 1867 on Deer Creek in the southeastern part of Anderson County. In 1878, it had a United Brethren Church, a general store, a physician, and a population of about 40. Its mail was delivered four times weekly from a stagecoach to Colony to B.F. Reiber, the postmaster. It shipped grain, livestock, castor beans, and flax seed from Colony, the nearest railroad station. It was 12 miles from Garnett, the county seat, ten from Colony, and 88 from Topeka. When its post office closed in 1883, it was moved to Equity.
Richards	Barber	Lost Town	1883-1884
Richards	Chase	Lost Town	None	David Richards settled here in May 1858. It was an incorporated town on the east side of the Chicago, Kansas, and Western Railroad in Diamond Creek Township. The townsite was vacated by 1889.
Richardson, McGee’s	Osage	Lost Town	1855-1874	At or near 110 Station on the Santa Fe Trail.
Richardson	Pottawatomie	Lost Town
Richeyville	Greenwood	Lost Town
Richfield	Morton	Current Town
Richland	Miami	Name Change		Now Wellsville.
Richland	Shawnee	Lost Town	1867-1969	Richland was abandoned when the Corps of Engineers acquired area land for the Clinton Lake floodplain.
Richland Centre	Butler	Lost Town	1878-1881
Richeyville	Greenwood	Lost Town	1882-1883
Richmond	Franklin	Current Town
Richmond	Nemaha	Lost Town		Located in about 1854. It was the first town in the county and county seat until 1858.
Richter	Franklin	Lost Town	1890-1907
Ricka	Ford	Lost Town	1885-1886
Riddle Ferry	Jefferson	Lost Place		Operation 1856-57 on the Delaware River at Ozawkie on the Ft. Leav.-Ft. Riley Road. Jefferson Riddle, Proprietor.
Ridge	Linn	Lost Town	1866-1868
Ridge Farm	Doniphan	Lost Town
Ridgeway	Osage	Lost Town	1858-1900	It is one of the historic early-day towns, but it dwindled after being missed by the railroads.
Riley/Riley Center	Riley			Now Riley.
Riley City	Geary	Lost Town		Opposite Fort Riley, established in 1854, was also called West Point and Whiskey Point.
Riley County	Riley	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, it was created in 1855. Manhattan is the county seat.
Rinehart/Rhinehart	Dickinson	Lost Town	1896-1903	The name changed from Rhinehart to Rinehart on April 15, 1902.
Ringo	Crawford	Lost Town	1915-1957	Coal mining camp.
Ripon	Labette	Lost Town	1870-1884 1886-1891
Rising Sun	Jefferson	Lost Town	1858-1859 1863-1866	Incorporated 1857. Opposite Lecompton.
Risley	Marion	Lost Town	1873-1879	The post office moved to Hillsboro.
Ritchel Crossing	Franklin			Cross of Pottawatomie Creek, southwest of Lane, Kansas.
Ritter	Kingman	Lost Place	1986	The post office was only open for about seven months.
River View	Rice	Lost Town
Riverdale	Clay	Lost Town
Riverdale	Sumner	Extinct Town	1887-1973	Located on the Chicago and Rock Island and the Missouri Pacific Railroads, eight miles north of Wellington.
Rivere	Woodson	Name Change		Now Toronto.
Riverton	Cherokee	Current Town		A small town on Route 66.
Riverton	Reno	Lost Town	1875-1890
Riverview	Wyandotte	Lost Town		Now part of Kansas City.
Roberts	Russell	Lost Town	1896-1906	A country hamlet 15 miles south of Russell. The population in 1910 was 25.
Robidoux Crossing	Marshall	Lost Place		This place is most likely located on Robidoux Creek, where the St. Joseph Branch of the Oregon Trail crossed. It was near US Route 36, about 1.75 miles south of Beattie, Kansas.
Robidoux Ferry	Doniphan	Lost Place		Established in 1839 on the Missouri River at Robidoux Landing. Julius Robidoux, proprietor.
Robinson	Brown	Current Town
Rochester	Anderson	Lost Town
Rochester	Neosho	Lost Town	1869-1870 1872
Rochester	Shawnee	Lost Town		Founded in 1854 by J. Butler Chapman. First called Delaware City, then Whitfield, then Kansopolis, and afterward changed to Rochester.
Rock	Cowley	Current Town	1870-Present	Rock, Kansas, is an unincorporated village on the Walnut River in Rock Creek Township of Cowley County.
Rock	Sumner			It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Rock-a-By	Coffey			The post office was named Strawn. It was on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Rock Castle	Nemaha	Name Change		Now Seneca.
Rock Castle	Rush	Lost Town	None
Rock Creek	Lyon	Lost Town	1870-1871	It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Rock Creek/Louisville	Pottawatomie	Current Town	1856-Present	This place got its start in 1856 and was first called Rock. The name changed to Louisville on July 19, 1867. Today, Louisville, Kansas, is a small town in south-central Pottawatomie County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 131.
Rock Creek, Rock Creek Crossing	Morris	Lost Town	1870-1871	Located along the Santa Fe Trail, it was known as a good camping and watering place, with wood for fuel. Located near Agnes City.
Rock Creek Crossing	Pottawatomie	Lost Place		Rock Creek Crossing of Fort Leavenworth-Fort Riley Military Road at Louisville, Kansas. Robert Wilson operated a tavern and grist mill at the crossing.
Rock Ford, French Crossing	Doniphan	Lost Place		Near the mouth of the Wolf River. S. F. French, Proprietor. Located in Iowa Township, where SR 7 crosses the river.
Rock Hill	Lincoln	Lost Town
Rock Island	Grant	Lost Town		Vacated 1908.
Rock Spring, Rock Stream	Ellsworth	Lost Town		It was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Rockford	Bourbon	Lost Town	1860-1902	First settled in 1858 by Guy Hinton.
Rockford, Rocky Ford	Pottawatomie	Lost Town
Rocklow	Allen	Lost Town	1877-1886	Rocklow was located on the Marmaton River in the township of that name. In 1880, it was on the graded but uncompleted railroad from Fort Scott to Humboldt, its shipping point and bank location. A
Rockton	Wabaunsee	Lost Town
Rockville, Rockwell	Miami	Lost Town
Rockville	Saline	Lost Town
Rockwell	Cherokee	Lost Town	1877-1879	It was on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Rockwell City/Bell	Norton	Lost Town	1879-1904	This small town was in the northwestern part of Norton County. In 1879, a group of Dunkards came to the area from Maple Grove, Iowa, and organized a Dunkard colony. Rockwell City was abandoned. In 1894, it had a population of 15. It was located 12 miles northwest of Norton, the county seat, and seven miles from Oronoque.
Rocky Ford	Wabaunsee	Lost Town
Rocky Hill	Lincoln	Lost Town	1871-1880	Rocky Hill sprang up just east of the old paper town of Abram, which was the county seat for a brief time.
Roeland Park	Johnson	Current Town
Roger’s Mills	Neosho	Lost Town	1865-1870	The post office moved to Tioga when it closed.
Rogersville	Doniphan	Lost Town	1857-1859	North of Troy on the California Trail, this town was named for Emerson Van B. Rogers, the first postmaster.
Rogersville	Ness	Lost Town
Rogersville-Rodgersville	Washington	Lost Town
Roland	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1895-1902
Rolla	Morton	Current Town		On the Cimarron branch of the Santa Fe Trail
Roland	Rush	Lost Town	1880-1887
Rollin	Neosho	Lost Town	1890-1901
Rolling Green	Sumner	Lost Town
Rolling Prairie	Lane	Lost Town		Discontinued 1882.
Romance	Johnson	Lost Town	1876-1877 1878-1879
Rome	Ellis	Lost Town	None	Rome, Kansas, was the first settlement formed after Ellis County was officially organized. It was just west of Hays. Buffalo Bill Cody organized it.
Rome	Franklin	Lost Town
Rome	Sumner	Lost Town	1874-1933	Located in Jackson Township, it was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, eight miles south of Wellington.
Rooks Center	Rooks	Lost Town
Rooks County	Rooks	Current County	NA	Created from unorganized area in 1867. Stockton is the county seat.
Root				On the Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Roper/Sidell	Wilson	Lost Town	1887-1933	The town was started in 1886 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad was built. The name changed from Sidell to Roper on February 10, 1891.
Rosalia	Butler	Current Town		Located east of El Dorado, a pioneer named the post office Rosalia after his wife.
Rosalind	Republic	Lost Town	1878-1885
Roscoe	Graham	Lost Town		Vacated 1895.
Rose City, Ross City	Chautauqua	Lost Town
Rose Hill	Butler	Current Town		The Hall boys had one of the first general stores.
Rose Hill	Neosho	Lost Town	1870-1871	The post office moved to Galesburg when it closed.
Rose Valley	Pratt	Lost Town
Rosebank	Dickinson	Lost Town	1879-1887
Rosedale	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1872-1902	Railroad promoters named it for the abundance of roses along the track. Consolidated with Kansas City in 1922
Rosette	Lincoln	Lost Town	1879-1900
Roseland	Cherokee	Current Town	1902-1918	Roseland, located on the Joplin & Pittsburg electric line, started as a mining camp.
Rosemont	Osage	Lost Town	1887-1913	It was a  station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was located 19 miles southeast of Lyndon.
Roseport	Doniphan	Lost Town		Incorporated 1855. Now Elwood
Rosevale	Clay	Lost Town		The name changed to Morena, then Springfield, then Broughton.
Ross	Cherokee	Lost Town		On the Howard Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Rossville	Crawford	Lost Town
Rossville	Shawnee	Current Town		On the Oregon Trail and the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Rosyvale	Anderson	Lost Town	1860-1862
Rosyvale	Brown	Lost Town
Rotterdam	Jewell
Rotterdam	Osborne	Lost Town		Established 1871
Round Grove	Johnson	Lost Town		On Santa Fe trail 35 miles west of Independence, Missouri.
Round Grover	Washington	Lost Town		See Hopper.
Round Prairie
Round Springs	Mitchell	Lost Town
Roundup	Barber	Lost Town	1885-1901
Rovella	Linn	Lost Town	1858-1863
Roxbury	McPherson	Current Town
Roy	Sumner	Lost Town	1879-1886
Roy’s Creek Bridge	Doniphan	Lost Place		On the old White Cloud & Padonia Road, near present-day 310th St., in White Cloud, Kansas.
Roy’s Ferry	Doniphan	Lost Place		Established in the 1840s on the Big Nemaha River, John Baptiste Roy, proprietor. He also had a trading post on the hillside south of the ferry and was an interpreter for the Ioway Indians.
Royville		Lost Town		Incorporated 1860.
Roxbury	McPherson
Rozel	Pawnee	Current Town
Rubens	Jewell	Lost Town	1871-1900	Rubens was located on White Rock Creek in Richland Township. One of the oldest settled communities in the county, it was the scene of several Indian outrages.
Ruble	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1886-1900
Ruby	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1879-1894
Ruleton				Named for Sherman; J. E. Rule, merchant.
Runnymede	Harper	Lost Town
Rural	Chase	Lost Town	1894-1902
Rural	Jefferson	Name Change		Now Williamstown.
Rural Springs	Kingman	Lost Town	1879-1880	The post office moved to Terrapin.
Rurdon	Sheridan	Lost Town
Rush Center	Rush	Current Town
Rush County	Rush	Current County	NA	Created from an unorganized area in 1867. La Crosse is the county seat.
Rushville	Ford	Lost Town	None	Vacated in 1895.
Rusk	Cowley	Lost Town
Russell	Russell	Current Town		A colony of 70 settlers from Ripon, Wisconsin, established it in the early 1870s. In 1867, it was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Russell County	Russell	Current County	NA	It was created from unorganized area in 1867. Russell is the county seat.
Russell Springs	Logan	Ghost Town	1887-1997	On the Smoky Hill Trail. The post office closed on November 7, 1997.
Rutland/Atlanta	Montgomery	Lost Town	1870-1901	The name changed from Atlanta to Rutland on March 17, 1874.
Ruweda	Greenwood	Lost Town	1888-1921	A country post office in the northwestern part of the county, 18 miles from Eureka.
Ryan	Rush	Lost Town	1878-1908	In Banner Township, 15 miles southeast of La Crosse and seven miles south of Timken.
Ryan’s	Atchison	Lost Town
Ryan’s Station	Doniphan	Lost Place	None	A flag station on the St. Joseph and Western Railway. It was located one mile east of Severance.
Ryansville	Ford	Lost Town		Vacated 1895.
Rydal	Republic	Extinct Town	1896-1953	It was a small village in Belleville Township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. In 1910, it had a telegraph, telephone office, post office and express facilities, a grain and coal establishment, and a nursery. The population in 1910 was 31. It was five miles west of Belleville.
Ryus	Grant	Extinct Town		Only a few buildings and silos remain.

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