Michigan Valley, Kansas, old business buildings.
Michigan Valley, Kansas, in Osage County, is an extinct town today.
A station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, it gained a post office on August 25, 1870.
It must have been fairly prosperous in its early years, as by 1910, it had several mercantile establishments, a bank, good schools and churches, telegraph and express facilities, a money order office with one rural route, and a population of 200.
Its post office closed on August 11, 1967.
McDaniels Grocery & Dry Goods in Michigan Valley, Kansas.
There are still a few business buildings and a church in this faded town. It is located a couple of miles east of Pomona Lake.
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated May 2026.
Also See:
Santa Fe Trail in Osage County
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