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Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
Table Rock | Pawnee | Lost Town | ||
Tabor | Clay | Lost Town | 1873-1887 | In Bloom Township, in northwestern Clay County, it was about nine miles from Clay Center, the county seat and nearest railroad station. |
Tacoah | Greenwood | Lost Town | Incorporated 1857. | |
Tally Springs | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1871-1875 | |
Talmage | Republic | Lost Town | Discontinued 1882. | |
Talmage | Dickinson | Current Town | ||
Talmage | Woodson | Name Change | Now Vernon. | |
Talmo | Republic | Ghost Town | 1884-1953 | In 1910, Talmo was a station on the Union Pacific railroad. At that time, it had about a dozen business establishments, a post office, telegraph, telephone, and express offices, and 150 residents. It is located about nine miles south of Belleville, the nearest banking point. Today, the area still has several homes, barns, and silos. |
Taos | Marshall | Lost Town | 1883-1885 | Located where Salem Lutheran Church now stands in east Marshall County. |
Tampa | Marion | Current Town | ??-2007 | On the Santa Fe Trail and the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Located about 10 miles north of Hillsboro. The post office closed on July 21, 2007. |
Tarry | Saline | Lost Town | ||
Tasco | Sheridan | |||
Tate | Linn | Lost Town | Voting place 1858. | |
Tatonka | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1876-1885 | |
Tauromee | Riley | Lost Town | 1856-1858 | The post office moved from Juniata. |
Taylor | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1885-1890 | |
Tecumseh | Shawnee | Current Town | 1855-Present | On the Oregon Trail. |
Tehama | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1873-1901 | It was located five miles southeast of Columbus and not far from Quaker. |
Tell | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1888-1890 | |
Teller | Gove | Lost Town | None | The town of Teller, named for Willard Teller, was located in Larrabee Township near the Smoky Hill River. It was established in 1887. The expectation of a railroad along the Smoky prompted the town’s establishment. Teller never had a post office but did have a store, a blacksmith shop, and a few dwellings. In 1890, Teller became a ghost town. |
Templin | Wabaunsee | Located in Washington Township. It was on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887. | ||
Ten Mile | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
Ten Mile | Miami | Name Change | Now Hillsdale. | |
Tennessee Town | Shawnee | Lost Town | The Exoduster community in Topeka was called Tennessee Town. | |
Tennis | Finney | Lost Town | None | Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad station south of Friend; named for B. M. Tennis, general manager of the Garden City Western Railway. It was 13 miles north of Garden City. |
Terra Cotta | .Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1878-1913 | Located about six miles southwest of Brookville, this town was on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. There is nothing left today. |
Terrapin | Kingman | Lost Town | 1880-1884 | The post office moved from Rural Springs. |
Terryton-Vernon | Finney | Lost Town | 1886-1904 1905-1923 |
This place was first called Vernon, but the town’s name was changed on May 21, 1886, to Terryton. In 1910, it was described as a country post office in Pleasant Township with a stage line to Garden City and a population of 28. |
Tescott | Ottawa | Current Town | Named after T.E. Scott. | |
Teterville | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1927-1962 |
An oil town located approximately 11 miles east of Cassoday. No buildings remain of this former community. Naed for Jim Teter, rancher. It i the site of Teter Rock. |
Tevis | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1887-1909 | It was a country station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad two miles from Berryton. The population in 1910 was 79. |
Thayer | Neosho | Current Town | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
The Highlands | Reno | Current Town | ||
Thelma | Greeley | Lost Town | 1906-1912 | A country office in Tribune Township, it was located about 14 miles northeast of Tribune. |
Thomas | Barton | Lost Town | 1880-1882 | |
Thomas | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1887-1890 | |
Thomas | Marshall | Lost Town | 1897-1900 | Located in the extreme southwest part of the county, 18 miles from Marysville, it had a population of 40 in 1910. |
Thomas County | Thomas | Current County | NA | Created from unorganized area in 1873. Colby is the county seat. |
Thomas Grove | Reno | Lost Town | None | Thomas Grove was Reno County’s first settlement. |
Thomasville | Cowley | Lost Town | ||
Thompson | Smith | Lost Town | ||
Thompson’s Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | Operated 1852-70 on the Missouri River at Elwood. Henry Thompson, proprietor. |
Thompson-Hameys Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | NA | Established in 1846 on the Missouri River near Corning, Missouri. It was near Iowa Point. |
Thompsonville | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1878-1901 | Thompsonville was a hamlet located on the Delaware River in Kentucky Township. Named for C. L. Thompson, pioneer and mill owner. |
Thornburg | Smith | Named after the postmaster. | ||
Thrall | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1885-1905 1926-1962 |
An inland hamlet located about 20 miles north of Eureka. Named after a pioneer landowner |
Threshing Machine Canyon/Blufton | Trego | |||
Thurber | Reno | Lost Town | 1899-1901 | |
Thurman | Chase | Lost Town | 1874-1909 | William Thurman settled here in 1859. It was located on Thurman Creek in Matfield Green Township, 20 miles south of Cottonwood Falls. In 1910, it was connected with Matfield Green by daily stage and had a population of 30. |
Tiago | Republic | Lost Town | 1882-1891 | |
Tiblow | Wyandotte | Name Change | Now Bonner Springs. | |
Tice | On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |||
Tiffany-Sloey-Mahan | Gove | Lost Town | 1880-1894 | Tiffany was located on Castle Rock Creek, and a post office was established on June 7, 1880. Cattle raising was its primary interest. On September 7, 1883, the town’s name was changed to Mahan. On January 8, 1885, the town’s name was changed to Sloey. On March 12, 1890, the town’s name reverted back to Tiffany. |
Tilden | Grant | Lost Town | 1887-1890 | The post office moved from Surprise. Name change to Appomattox. |
Tilden | Osborne | Name Change | Now Bloomington. | |
Timber City | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | 1862-1863 | |
Timber Creek | Riley | Lost Town | 1870-1871 | The post office moved to Bala. |
Timber Hill | Labette | Lost Town | 1869-1879 | A town company was incorporated on April 12, 1869, to lay off the town of Timber Hill in the southeastern part of Osage Township. In about the middle of September 1869, George W. Blake and William Blake opened a store and continued to sell goods until the spring of 1871, when they closed and moved to their farms. |
Time | Crawford | Lost Town | 1875-1878 | The post office moved to McCune. |
Timken | Rush | Extinct Town | -1996 | The post office closed on January 20, 1996. |
Tint | Butler | Lost Town | 1899-1911 | A country post office in Syracuse Township, 25 miles northeast of Eldorado and 16 miles south of Bazaar, the nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was 20. |
Tioga | Neosho | Name Change | 1870-1872 |
Now part of Chanute. |
Tippinville | Jackson | Lost Town | Moved to Denison | |
Tipton | Mitchell | Current Town | ||
Tipton | Montgomery | Lost Town | None | Tipton was started in 1868, a short distance east of Elk City, to which it was forced to surrender. |
Tiptonville | Jackson | Lost Town | ||
Tisdale | Cowley | Lost Town | Established in 1871, named for Henry Tisdale of Lawrence. The present Tisdale is some two miles from the old townsite. | |
Titus/Fort Titus | Douglas | Lost Place | None | Near Lecompton, voting precinct 1854 and 1855. A replica fort has been established in Lecompton. |
Todd | Atchison | Lost Town | 1897-1900 | |
Togo | Graham | Located midway between Hill City and Wakeeney. The town burned in about 1913. The Prairie Home School, church, and cemetery are nearby. | ||
Tokeska | Douglas | Lost Town | None | |
Toledo | Chase | Lost Town | 1858-1903 | In Toledo Township, O. Thompson started the first general store at Toledo in 1859. |
Toley’s Ferry | Wyandotte | Lost Place | NA | Established in about 1845 on the Kansas River, Charles Toley, proprietor. |
Tolle | Butler | Lost Town | 1885-1886 | The post office moved to Wingate. |
Tonganoxie | Leavenworth | Current Town | ||
Tonovay | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1886-1912 | A hamlet located on the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Bachelor Township, eight miles east of Eureka. |
Tonsa | Wilson | Lost Town | ||
Tontzville or Toutsville | Miami | Lost Town | ||
Topeka | Shawnee | Current Town | The county seat, home of the state capitol. On the Oregon Trail and the Smoky Hill Trail.On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, Kansas Pacific Railroad, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
Topsy | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1879-1886 | |
Toronto | Woodson | Current Town | On the Benedict Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. | |
Torry | Saline | Lost Town | 1879-1886 | The post office moved from Broadview. |
Toulon | Ellis | Lost Town | 1889-1891 1898-1901 |
A small village on the Union Pacific Railroad, five miles east and one mile south of Hays. It was first settled In 1876 by people from Pennsylvania. |
Touzlin | Meade | Lost Town | ||
Towanda/Meade’s Ranch | Butler | Lost Town | ||
Towerspring | Lincoln | Lost Town | 1879-1904 | A country hamlet located on east Elkhorn Creek, ten miles south of Lincoln, the nearest shipping point. |
Townsdin’s Point | Cloud | Lost Town | ||
Trading Post | Linn | Lost Town | Established 1834. See Blooming Grove. | |
Trail | Lyon | Lost Town | 1882-1887 | Located one mile north and three miles west of Allen. |
Trail City | Hamilton | |||
Trasey | Republic | Lost Town | 1880-1882 | |
Travel Air | ||||
Treece | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1917-2004 | As of May 2012, the city was abandoned, and most buildings and other facilities were demolished due to pervasive problems with lead pollution resulting from past mining. The post office closed on March 6, 2004. |
Trego | Trego | On the Kansas Pacific Railroad. | ||
Trego Center | Trego | Lost Town | 1891-1893 | |
Trego County | Trego | Current County | Created from unorganized area in 1867. WaKeeney is the county seat. | |
Trego Station/Park’s Fort | Trego | Lost Place | It was established to protect railroad workers from Indian attacks and to serve as a pumping station. | |
Trego Tank | Trego | Lost Town | The Union Pacific Railroad came through Trego County in 1867, and as they were steam engines, they had to have water for the boilers, so tank stations were set up along the way. Trego Tank was one of those pumping stations. | |
Tregola | Trego | Lost Town | 1891-1893 | The primary occupants were soldiers who found safety from the Indians in the all-rock buildings. |
Tremble Toll Road | Marshall | Post Place | Established about 1850-60 on the Black Vermillion River at the crossing of the Oregon & California Trail. Louis Tremble, propietor. Located in Bigelow Township. Also known as Black Vermillion Crossing. | |
Trent | Neosho | Lost Town | 1894-1901 | A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, it was about two miles east of Erie. |
Trenton | Labette | Lost Town | 1872-1875 | |
Trenton | Kingman | Lost Town | 1880-1887 | |
Trenton | Miami | Name Change | Now called Mound Creek. | |
Trenton/Nasby | Saline | Lost Town | 1885-1898 | The name changed from Nasby to Trenton on April 29, 1887. It was located northwest of Salina at the intersection of Gerard Road and Pleasant Hill Road, next to an abandoned railroad. |
Tribune | Greeley | Current Town | County seat. | |
Triumph | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1878 | |
Trivoli | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1875-1896 1903-1909 |
The post office moved from Delila in 1875. This country hamlet was located 15 miles southeast of Ellsworth and, after its post office closed, received mail from Kanopolis. |
Trousdale | Harvey | Lost Town | 1893-1906 | |
Trousdale | 1916-1967 | The post office closed on June 30, 1967. | ||
Troy | Anderson | Lost Town | Townsite located 1857, near Garnett. | |
Troy | Doniphan | Current Town | County seat. | |
Truesdell | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
Truman | Montgomery | Lost Town | 1876-1884 | |
Tucket | Norton | Lost Town | 1881-1882 | |
Trust | Osage | Lost Town | 1870 | The post office was only open for three months. |
Tuell | Wichita | Lost Town | Vacated 1889. | |
Turck | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1889-1891 | Turck was located three miles south of Scammon on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. |
Turkey Creek/Uniontown | Bourbon | Current Town | 1858-Present | The name changed from Turkey Creek to Uniontown on March 10, 1873. |
Turkey Creek | McPherson | Lost Town | It was a station on the Santa Fe Trail. | |
Turkville | Ellis | Lost Town | 1875-1918 | Settled by a colony from Tennessee in 1876, who founded the first Baptist church in Ellis County. It was located in northeast Ellis County on the Saline River. Named for Benjamin M. Turk, the postmaster. |
Turner/Farmer | Wyandotte | Extinct Town | 1877-1958 | The town was initially called Farmer but changed to Turner in 1879. Today, it is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. |
Turners | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1872-1873 | |
Turon | Reno | Current Town | ||
Tweed | Gove | Lost Town | 1901-1913 | A country post office in Gove County, Tweed was located on the Smoky Hill River, about 20 miles southwest of Gove, the county seat, and 15 miles north of Healy in Lane County, the nearest shipping point. It had one general store and received its mail daily. |
Twelve Mile | Smith | Lost Town | ||
Twin Creek | Republic | Lost Town | 1872-1915 | |
Twin Grove | Republic | Lost Town | 1871-1872 | The post office moved to Union Valley. |
Twin Falls | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1870-1899 | The post office moved to Kaiser. |
Twin Mound(s) | Douglas | Lost Town | 1858-1903 | The old townsite comprises a few farms, a one-room schoolhouse, and a cemetery. |
Twin Mounds | Wilson | Name Change | Now Fredonia. | |
Twin Springs | Linn | Lost Town | 1857-1876 | Twin Springs was located in the northern part of Linn County, near the Miami County line. |
T-Wrench | Cheyenne | Lost Town | ||
Tyler Place | Douglas | Lost Town | Vacated 1895. | |
Tyler’s | Brown | Lost Town | 1864-1878 | Named for John S. Tyler, the postmaster. Tyler was a member of the Albany Colony from New York in 1857. Located at the crossing of Grasshopper Creek, two miles west of Fairview. |
Tyler’s Crossing | Brown | Lost Place | NA | Crossing of Grasshopper (Cedar) Creek, two miles southwest of Fairview. Probably Gilliam Company campsite May 25, 1844. |
Tyler’s | Nemaha | Lost Town | 1864-?? | Established in about 1860. |
Tyner | Ellis | Lost Town | 1880-1881 | |
Tyro | Montgomery | Current Town | ||
Tyrone | Seward | Lost Town | Named after Tyrone, Pennsylvania. The plat was filed by the Tyrone Town Company in May 1888 about three miles southwest of Liberal. The post office moved to Oklahoma in May 1892. |