A dusty road in Ford County, Kansas in the 1930s.
| Town | Post Office Dates | Additional Information |
| Bellefont | 1878-1896 1904-1957 |
Planners of Bellefont hoped it would be a railhead and an important junction for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. However, that didn’t happen. Today there are but a few farms and a grain elevator. |
| Corbitt or Corbett | 1885-1887 | Located on the Cannon Ball Stage line from Wichita, Corbitt was located just two miles north of Bucklin. There were only 3-4 homes built there and when the railroad went to Bucklin, the post office was moved there in 1887. |
| Crooked Creek | <1870-1886 | |
| Eugene | 1886-1887 | |
| Fonda | 1885-1890 | Fonda, located just north of Corbitt, was a proposed station on the Wichita and Dodge City Railroad. |
| Fort Atkinson | 1851-1853 | Moved to Walnut Creek near present-day Great Bend and the post office changed names. It was also in Washington County for a time. The first Fort Atkinson was situated on the Santa Fe Trail about six miles west of present-day Dodge City. In 1853, the troops stationed there were transferred to Walnut Creek. The original name was resumed in 1855. |
| Hazelwood | 1878-1879 | |
| Howell/Morris | 1895-1897 1909-1916 |
Originally known as Morrison Station, the town was yet another railroad stop. The boom years were in the 1880s and early 1890s when the population reached 150 people. All that is left today is a grain elevator and county rural fire station |
| Lasker | 1886-1887 | A short-lived Jewish community that hoped to establish a utopian town |
| Manila | 1898-1899 | |
| Morrison | 1886-1888 | |
| Newkirk/Colcord | 1887-1888 | The town name changed from Colcord to Newkirk in 1887. The post office moved to Kingsdownn in 1888. |
| Noland or Nolan | 1887-1893 | Started around 1882 as a country store and later gained a post office. |
| Reinert | 1908-1917 | |
| Ricka | 1885-1886 | |
| Sears | None | Sears never had more than a telegraph station and a rural schoolhouse. |
| Sidlow | 1885-1886 | |
| Sodville | None | |
| Snyder | 1886-1899 | |
| Sunshine | 1885-1886 | |
| Whitman | 1885-1889 | |
| Wilburn | 1885-1911 | |
| Wilroads | 1909-1922 | |
| Windhorst | 1898-1905 | Windhorst was settled by a German Catholic group in 1895. Though the town did not survive, its beautiful Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church still stands. |
Ford County, Kansas Map 1899
©Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated May 2021.
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