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Place Name | County | Place Type | Post Office Dates | More Information |
Kackley | Republic | Extinct Town | 1888-1968 | Named for Joe Kackley, the townsite owner. A village in Beaver Township, it was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. It is about 15 miles southwest of Belleville. It is a ghost town today. |
Kaiser | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1889-1900 | The post office moved from Twin Falls. |
Kalamazoo | Decatur | Lost Town | ||
Kalamazoo | Kingman | Lost Town | 1879-1881 | |
Kalamazoo | Sedgwick | Lost Town | 1883-1887 | The post office moved to Anness. |
Kalida, Kalaida | Woodson | Lost Town | An old settlement, it was originally located just east of Yates Center, Kansas. An early school was in this area. Yates Center absorbed the town. | |
Kalida, Clifton | Wilson | Lost Town | ||
Kalloch | Montgomery | Lost Town | None | Vacated in 1901. |
Kalvesta | Finney | Extinct Town | 1886-1998 | Kalvesta is an unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas. It is also an extinct town, as it no longer has a post office. |
Kanawha, Kannaka | Douglas | Lost Town | ||
Kanopolis | Ellsworth | Current Town | ||
Kanorado | Sherman | Current Town | ||
Kansapolis | Shawnee | Lost Town | A little east of Indianola. | |
Kansas Center | Rice | Lost Town | Incorporated by A. Beach and others in 1858. Near Golden City. | |
Kansas City | Anderson | Lost Town | See Iantha. | |
Kansas City | Wyandotte | Current City | 1855-Present | County Seat. The name changed from Wyandotte to Kansas City on March 27, 1885. On the Kansas Pacific Railroad, 1863. |
Kansas Falls | Geary | Lost Town | Incorporated 1858. | |
Kansas National Forest | Finney | Lost Forest | None | Failed attempt to grow a forest in Kansas. |
Kantanyan | Marshall | Lost Town | None | It was probably located where California Trail left Marshall County. |
Kara-Dewey | Washington | Lost Town | 1894-1899 1899-1901 |
The town’s name changed from Dewey to Kara on March 3, 1896. |
Kaw Agency | Jefferson | Lost Town | North of Lake View. | |
Kaw City | Jefferson | Lost Town | 1858-1866 | Kaw City was founded in the spring of 1857. |
Kaw Valley | Wyandotte | Lost Town | 1875-1878 | Nine miles south of Wyandotte (Kansas City.) |
Kearny County | Kearny | Current County | NA | Formed from Finney and Hamilton Counties in 1887. Lakin is the county seat. |
Kebar | Graham | Lost Town | ||
Kechi | Sedgwick | Current Town | ||
Kedron | Osage | Lost Town | 1871-1881 | |
Keefer | Decatur | Lost Town | ||
Kee-i-tone or Kleitone | Labette | Lost Town | Indian name. It later became Little Town. Now part of Oswego. | |
Keelville | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1868-1905 | It was located in the county’s southwestern corner, 13 miles from Columbus and six miles from Faulkner. In 1910, it had a population of about 45. |
Keene | Wabaunsee | Lost Town | ||
Keever | Ellsworth | Lost Town | 1876-1881 | |
Kegerville | Douglas | Lost Town | ||
Keighley | Butler | Lost Town | 1880-1943 | On the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, in Glencoe Township, it was 16 miles southeast of Eldorado. In 1910, it had a money order post office, some local trade, and a population of 75. |
Keimfield | Rush | Lost Town | 1878-1887 | The post office moved to McCracken. |
Kelley’s Ferry | Doniphan | Lost Place | Established in the 1850s on the Missouri River at the northwest corner of Burr Oak Township. | |
Kellogg | Cowley | Lost Town | 1884-1910 | A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Missouri Pacific Railroads, in Vernon Township, six miles west of Winfield. In 1910, it had a grain elevator, a general store, a grocery store, a money order post office, and a population of 52. |
Kelly | Nemaha | Extinct Town | 1888-1988 | Kelly started when the Kansas City, Wichita, and Northwestern Railway were built through the area. A beautiful church and several homes still stand. |
Kelly’s Station | Leavenworth | Name Change | 1866-1867 | The post office moved from Little Stranger. Kelly’s Station–Leavenworth; Located in Stranger Township. Pemfield, postmaster. The name changed to Fairmount. |
Kelso | Morris | Lost Town | 1881-1942 | Located on the Neosho River, it was a station on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. Named for David Kelso, the lawyer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The railroad station was named Downing. |
Kelso | Norton | Lost Town | ||
Kelso, Kelso City | Rawlins | Lost Town | Deserted in1879. | |
Kenamo | Shawnee | Lost Town | None | It was founded and laid out by Joseph Allen in 1856. |
Kenbro | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1925-1949 | |
Kendall-Zamora-Aubrey | Hamilton | Current Town | 1879-Present | Kendall, Kansas, is an unincorporated community in Kendall Township of Hamilton County. This place, located on the Santa Fe Trail, was originally known as Aubrey after the nearby Fort Aubrey, which lasted about one year. It was then renamed Zamora before becoming Kendall. |
Kenilworth | Geary | Lost Town | On the east bank of the Republican River, it was15 miles above its mouth. It was probably a name proposed for the town of Milford. | |
Kenilworth | Stafford | Lost Town | ||
Kennebec | Atchison | Lost Town | ||
Kennebec | Russell | Lost Town | 1874-1891 | |
Kennedy | Dickinson | Lost Town | 1892-1899 | |
Kennekuk | Atchison | Lost Town | 1857-1900 | Kennekuk was one of the first places in the county where whites located permanently when a Methodist Episcopal Church Mission was established in 1833 among the Kickapoo tribe. A stage stop was established in 1858. |
Kenneth/Mastin/Newington | Johnson | Lost Town | 1890-1943 | Named for a local landowner. Today, Kenneth is part of Overland Park. |
Kenneth | Rooks | Lost Town | ||
Kenneth | Sheridan | Lost Town | 1877 | Located in 1877, abandoned in 1886, and vacated in 1901. The original name for Hoxie |
Kensington | Smith | Current Town | ||
Kent | Geary | Lost Town | ||
Kent | Reno | Lost Town | 1882-1901 1902-1904 |
A station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad seven miles east of Hutchinson. In 1882, at least 25 people lived in Kent. It had a school, and the railroad went ran close by it. |
Kenton | Geary | Lost Town | Near the mouth of the Humboldt Creek. | |
Kenton | Greenwood | Lost Town | 1872-1879 | The post office moved to Verdigris Falls. |
Keokuk | Linn | Lost Town | ||
Kepferle | Cheyenne | Lost Town | 1880-1883 | |
Kepple | Wichita | Lost Town | ||
Keroma | Hodgeman | Lost Town | 1885-1887 | |
Key | Cloud | Lost Town | 1878-1881 | |
Key West/Queen City | Coffey | Lost Town | 1871-1885 | The name changed from Queen City to Key West on December 20, 1877. |
Keyser | Elk | Lost Town | 1890-1892 | Although the post office was authorized, it was never in operation. |
Keystone | Dickinson | Lost Town | ||
Keysville/Ben Wade | Pawnee | Lost Town | 1877-1893 | The name changed to Ben Wade in 1881. In 1893, the post office moved to Rozel. |
Kickapoo/Kickapoo City | Leavenworth | Lost Town | 1855-1920 | Settled in 1854 as a rival to Leavenworth by citizens of Weston, Missouri. In June 1854, the town had 1,500 people, many of whom worked as civilian laborers at Fort Leavenworth. One of the oldest towns in the county, it was first called Kickapoo City. |
Kickapoo Mission | Atchison | Lost Town | ||
Kidderville | Hodgeman | Lost Town | 1879-1914 | A country post office in North Roscoe Township, 17 miles northwest of Jetmore. In 1910, it had mail tri-weekly, and the population was 38. There were several cattle breeders in the vicinity. |
Kildare | Phillips | Lost Town | ||
Kilmer | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1886-1900 | |
Kimball | Atchison | Name Change | The name changed to Larkin. | |
Kimball/Kimbal/Dalton | Neosho | Extinct Town | 1888-1956 |
The name changed from Dalton to Kimball in honor of C.H. Kimball, president of the town’s first railroad. It was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad. |
Kimeo | Washington | Extinct Town | 1872-1904 | The Kimeo area was established by Irish settlers in the 1870s as a farming hamlet. St. Michael’s Catholic Church, built of native limestone, was completed in 1904. |
Kincaid | Anderson | Current Town | Located in southeastern Anderson County, it was named for Robert Kincaid, a promoter of the St. Louis & and Emporia Railroad. | |
King City | McPherson | Lost Town | 1871-1887 | In the spring of 1871, a colony from Ashtabula County, Ohio, settled in the southern part of McPherson County, Kansas, and established King City. |
Kingman | Kingman | Current Town | County seat. Founded in 1872 | |
Kingman County | Kingman | Current County | NA | Formed from Harper and Reno Counties in 1872. Kingman is the county seat. |
Kingsdown | Ford | Ghost Town | 1887-1998 | On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 1887. Today it is a small unincorporated semi-ghost town in southeast Ford County. |
Kingston | Labette | Lost Town | ||
Kingsville | Shawnee | Lost Town | 1873-1914 | Located on the Ninnescah River and Kansas Pacific Railroad, it was a country office in Silver Lake Township, nine miles northwest of Topeka. |
Kinney’s Station | Osage | Lost Town | Near Ridgeway. | |
Kinsley | Edwards | Current Town | Located southwest of Great Bend on the Santa Fe Trail. Founded by a group from Massachusetts in 1873. On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 1872. | |
Kiowa | Barber | Current Town | ||
Kiowa County | Kiowa | Current County | NA | Formed from Comanche and Edwards Counties in 1886. Greensburg is the county seat. |
Kipp | Saline | Lost Town | 1890-1957 | It was located on the line between Solomon and Eureka Townships on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. |
Kirkfield | Edwards | Lost Town | ||
Kirkwood | Crawford | Lost Town | NA | A coal mining camp. |
Kirwin | Phillips | Current Town | ||
Kismet | Seward | Current Town | 1888-1890 1908-Present |
On the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 1887. |
Kitley | Sumner | Lost Town | 1877-1881 | It was eight miles east and one mile south of South Haven at 170th St South and Woodlawn Road. |
Klassen | Hamilton | Lost Town | 1906-1907 | The post office’s Order of change was rescinded after about three months. |
Kling | Barber | Lost Town | 1908-1920 | It was on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad 25 miles west of Medicine Lodge. |
Knauston | Finney | Lost Town | 1886-1906 | Knauston was located in the northwest part of Finney County in 1885 by a man named Knaus from Knobnoster, Missouri. He was the postmaster and operated a general store. At that time, it had a few houses and a building which was used for school and church purposes. During the blizzard of 1886, the citizens had to abandon their homes and live in the church to conserve fuel. In 1910, Knauston was described as a hamlet located 16 miles northwest of Garden City and 10 miles in the same direction from Alfalfa, the nearest railroad station. At that time, Its mail was distributed from Garden City by rural route. |
Knight | Russell | Lost Town | 1884-1888 | |
Knipeville | Butler | Lost Town | 1917 | The post office was only open for about five months. The post office order of change was rescinded. |
Kniveton | Cherokee | Lost Town | 1895-1902 | Located on the Kansas City Southern Railroad 15 miles northeast of Columbus. |
Knowles | Washington | Lost Town | The name changed to Haddam in 1885. | |
Knox | Sumner | Lost Town | 1885-1895 | |
Koke | Butler | Lost Town | 1896 | The post office was open for less than a month. The post office order of change was rescinded. |
Koloko | Washington | Lost Town | 1877-1891 | |
Kong | Coffey | Lost Town | 1890-1901 | |
Kosciusko | Riley | Lost Town | Projected town six miles east of Manhattan. | |
Kossuth | Butler | Paper Town | Chartered 1858. It was probably a paper town. | |
Kossuth | Linn | Lost Town | 1893-1905 | |
Kossuth | Pottawatomie | Lost Town | ||
Kristof | Trego | Name Change | 1904 | The post office moved, and the name changed to Voda. |
Kruger | Russell | Lost Town | 1900-1901 | |
Kuhnbrook | Marion | Lost Town | 1887-1898 | |
Kunkel’s Ferry | Douglas | Lost Place | Established in 1857 on the Kansas River between Lecompton and Rising Sun. Jerome Kunkel, proprietor. | |
Kuykendall’s Ferry | Jackson | Lost Place | On the Kansas River at Calhoun. James Kuykendall, Proprietor. Calhoun was the first county seat of Jackson County. | |
Kuykendall’s Ferry | Wyandotte | Lost Place | Established in 1853 on the Missouri River at Parkville, Missouri. James Kuykendall, proprietor. |