Fort Wallace in the 1880s.
Town |
Post Office Dates |
Additional Information |
| Chance | 1904-1923 | Chance was a small hamlet of Stockholm Township, Wallace County, situated on a branch of Ladder Creek, about 15 miles Southwest of Sharon Springs, the county seat and most convenient railroad station. It had a money order postoffice and was a local trading center for the neighborhood in 1910. |
| Cutler | 1906-1909 | Cutler was a rural hamlet in northwestern Wallace County. It was located on the divide between Turtle and Goose Creeks, about 22 miles from Sharon Springs, the county seat. Weskan, on the Union Pacific Railroad, is the nearest railroad station. After its post office closed, it received its mail by rural delivery from Dale. |
| Dale | 1906-1914 | Dale was a country postoffice of Wallace County, located near the head of Turtle Creek about 16 miles northwest of Sharon Springs, the county seat. Besides being a post office, it was a trading center for the neighborhood. |
| Dinas-Macon | 1889-1901 1901-1917 |
This town was first called Macon when a post office was established in 1889. The name changed to Dinas on May 28, 1901, in 1910. Located in Harrison Township, it was near the head of Hackberry Creek, about 15 miles Southeast of Sharon Springs, the county seat and most convenient railroad station. The population in 1910 was 27. |
| Elizabeth | 1879-1881 | |
| Fort Wallace | 1866-1882 | Fort Wallace, Kansas, was first established as a Butterfield Overland Dispatch station on the Smoky Hill Trail in 1865. It was called the Pond Creek Stage Station. |
| Goble | 1909-1914 | |
| Holmes | 1888-1890 | |
| Ladder-Mell | 1888-1895 1895-1896 1904-1920 1921-1924 |
The name changed from Mell to Ladder on November 19, 1895. It was a country postoffice of Harrison Township, located 15 miles Southeast of Sharon Springs, the county seat and nearest shipping point. |
| Lister | 1891-1898 | |
| Phil Sheridan | 1868-1871 | |
| Pond Creek | 1868-1870 | Later Fort Wallace. |
| Runyon | 1907 1910-1911 |
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| Sexton | 1906-1915 | A hamlet in Wallace County, it was located in Wallace Township 16 miles northeast of Sharon Springs, the county seat, and 10 miles from Wallace, the nearest shipping point. In 1910, it had a postoffice and a general store. |
| Stockholm | 1890-1915 | Stockholm was a country postoffice in Wallace County; it is located in the township of the same name, 16 miles Southwest of Sharon Springs, the county seat, and 10 miles South of Weskan, the nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was 65. |
| Vega | 1888-1907 | A hamlet in Wallace County, Vega was located near Ladder Creek, 9 miles South of Sharon Springs, the county seat, and 6 miles northwest of Ladder, the post office from which it received mail. The population in 1910 was 10. |
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated September 2026.
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Sources:
Blackmar, Frank W.; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Vol. I; Standard Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1912.
Kansas Post Office History