Santa Fe, Kansas, Main Street.
| Town | Post Office Dates | Additional Information |
| Clift | 1887 | The post office was only open for about seven and a half months. It moved to Conductor after it closed. |
| Conductor | 1887-1901 | The post office moved from Clift. |
| Example | 1902-1913 | A rural post office in Lockport Township, Example was located near the northeast corner of the county, 12 miles from Santa Fe, the county seat, and about the same distance from Pierceville, the nearest railroad station. |
| Folsom | 1887-1914 | Folsom was a rural post office in eastern Haskell County. It was about eight miles from Santa Fe, the county seat, and 20 miles from West Plains, the nearest railroad station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. |
| Harwood | 1904-1914 | Harwood was a rural money order post office located near the southern boundary of the county, 12 miles from Santa Fe, the county seat, and about 18 miles from Liberal, the nearest railroad station. It served as a trading center for the neighborhood in which it is located. |
| Ivanhoe | 1885-1905 | Ivanhoe was a contestant for the county seat in November 1887. After losing the race to Santa Fe, the town relocated there. Ivanhoe was six miles north of Santa Fe, the county seat, and seven miles northwest of Jean, the post office from which its mail was distributed by rural route after its post office closed. All that is left today is its old cemetery. |
| Jean | 1901-1925 | Jean, a country post office in Haskell County, is located seven miles northeast of Santa Fe, the county seat, and 24 miles south of Garden City, the nearest shipping point. |
| Lockport-Stowe | 1887-1909 | The community was first called Stowe after a post office opened on February 18, 1886. On September 19, 1888, the town’s name was changed to Lockport. It was a country post office located near the east line, 12 miles east of Santa Fe, the county seat, and six miles south of Colusa in Gray County, from which place its mail is distributed by rural route after its post office closed. |
| Loco | 1885-1890 | |
| Oliver | 1888-1893 1902-1903 |
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| Santa Fe | 1886-1925 | Santa Fe, Kansas, an extinct town in Haskell County, was the county seat for 26 years. The town is gone today; only the cemetery remains. |
| Taw | 1886-1913 | Taw was a country post office in Lockport Township, 12 miles southeast of Santa Fe, the county seat and nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 comprised 26 men, all farmers or livestock breeders. |
| Toluca | 1900-1913 | Toluca was a country post office in Dudley township, nine miles south of Santa Fe, the county seat. It had a grocery store and tri-weekly mail in 1910. |
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, December 2025.
Also See:
Southwest Kansas
Sources:
Blackmar, Frank W.; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Vol I; Standard Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1912.
Kansas Historical Society
Kansas Memory
Kansas Post Office History