A sod house in Thomas County, Kansas, 1902.
| Town | Post Office Dates | Additional Information |
| Copeland | 1886-1891 | |
| Crook | 1890-1892 | |
| Cumberland | 1880-1887 | |
| Deland | 1889-1891 | |
| De Munn | 1887-1889 | |
| Fairland | 1904-1908 | |
| Gilmore | 1887-1889 | |
| Halford | 1892-1953 |
 Halford, KS. Silos.  An old school in Halford. Halford still features several silos, an old business building, a few area homes, and the Timmerman Feed Yard. |
| Hastings | 1887-1888 | The post office moved to Brewster when it closed. |
| Hughes | 1886-1887 | |
| Kingery | 1904-1916 | Kingery, a country post office in Thomas County, was located in the township of the same name, 25 miles southwest of Colby, the county seat. It had a tri-weekly mail. |
| Kuka | 1886-1899 | Kuka was 20 miles southwest of Colby, the judicial seat, and 14 miles from Winona, the usual banking and shipping point. A.P. Thomas was the postmaster. |
| Letitia | 1880-1885 | The first post office in the county was established at Letitia in 1879, and Letitia Reed was its first postmistress. |
| Menlo | 1888-1992 |
 Grain Elevator in Menlo, Kansas. Menlo, Kansas, is a small town in Thomas County’s Thomas Township. As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 33. |
| Mingo-Thurford | 1888-1940 |
 Mingo, Kansas Grain Elevator. This place was first called Thurford when a post office was opened on October 3, 1888. It was the last town to be formed in Thomas County, and was the midway point between Oakley and Colby. The town and post office were renamed Mingo on April 4, 1894. At that time, the community had a general store, a blacksmith, a livery, and a lumber and implements dealer. |
| Otterbourne | 1881-1897 | Otterbourne, Kansas, was the first town in Thomas County to be laid out, platted, and to have the first store. However, it is gone today. |
| Quickville | 1880-1909 | Quickville was a hamlet in Barrett Township, Thomas County, that was bypassed by the railroad. It was 15 miles northwest of Colby, the county seat and usual shipping point, and about the same distance from Brewster, the place from which it received its mail after its post office closed. |
| Renrew | 1904-1907 | |
| Streator | 1880-1887 |
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated January 2026.
Also See:
Sources:
Blackmar, Frank W.; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Vol I; Standard Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1912.
Fort Hays State University
Thomas County Directory, 1894
Wikipedia