Kansas Detailed Map courtesy ofontheworldmap

Listed here is a working index of every place in Kansas.

Lost Towns/Places – These places no longer exist. Although its location may still be known, nothing remains of the community, stage stop, etc.

Extinct Towns – These communities often still have a few homes and buildings, but no longer have a post office.

Ghost Towns – These places are often former towns that still retain several business buildings, an old school, and interesting structures or sites, offering great photo opportunities. Ghost towns can also be current towns that are shells of their former selves, having lost their primary economic mainstay or other reasons.

Name Change – The community’s name was changed, or it merged with another community.

Paper Town – These places were claimed, sometimes staked out, and never built. Or a town company was incorporated, but never followed through.

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Army City, Kansas, in about 1918.

“It takes three log houses to make a city in Kansas, but they begin calling it a city as soon as they have staked out the lots.”

—Horace Greeley

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Place Name	County	Place Type	Post Office Dates	More Information
50 Camp	Crawford	Lost Town	None	This mining camp was located about two miles west ofArma. It was a company town of the Central Coal and Coke Company.
110 Station/Crossing	Osage	Lost Place	None	One Hundred Ten Crossing of theSanta Fe Trail. McGee-Harris Stage Station 1854, Fry McGee, Proprietor. The town of Richardson was platted in 1854, and a post office was established in 1855-74. Fry McGee was the postmaster. Two miles southeast of Scranton.
142 Crossing	Lyon	Lost Place	None	Crossing of the Santa Fe Trail. Charles H. Withington had a store in 1856. Allen’s post office was established 1/2 mile northeast, in 1855-56. Located near Road M, four miles north of Allen
Abbyville	Reno	Current Town	1873-Present
Abilene	Dickinson	Current Town	1860-Present	County Seat. The name changed from Mud Creek to Muddy Creek. It was located on the Smoky Hill Trail, the Chisholm Trail, the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and was the home of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Abram	Lincoln	Lost Town	1872	For a brief time, the county seat. The post office was relocated from Rocky Hill on February 26, 1872, and then returned to Rocky Hill on December 5, 1872.
Abrellville	Sumner	Lost Town		It had a post office for just a few months in 1873, from May to September.
Achilles	Rawlins	Lost Town	1879-1951	Population, 40. A post office in Achilles Township had a population of about 40 in 1900. It was 18 miles from Atwood, the county seat, and 16 miles from Herndon, both of which places afford banking and shipping facilities. It had Fields & Folsom Hardware Store, a general store, a physician, the Goodrich Bros Creamery, and a population of 40 in 1900.
Ackerland	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1883-1923	Ackerland, a village ofLeavenworth County, is located in the county’s western portion on the Leavenworth & Topeka Railroad.
Ackley	Ottawa	Lost Town	1879-1888
Acme	Dickinson	Lost Town	1897-1906	A country post office in Garfield Township. It was seven miles south of Abilene, the county seat, banking, and shipping point. In 1900, it had the Acme Creamery Company, a blacksmith, and a general store.
Akron	Dickinson	Lost Town	1874-1875
Ada-Hot Hill	Ottawa	Current Town	1872-1998	Ada Depot. Ada, Kansas, is a small town and census-designated place situated on Salt Creek in Fountain Township of northwestern Ottawa County. It is also anextinct town as its post office closed years ago. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86
Adair	Trego	Lost Town
Adams	Kingman	Lost Town	1895-1954	A village located in Canton Township, about 16 miles southeast of Kingman. In 1910, it was a station on theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, had a money order post office, and was a shipping and trading point for that section of the county, with a population of 20.
Adams Peak	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1870-1884	In the southern part of Shannon Township.
Adamson	Rooks	Lost Town
Adamsville	Sumner	Lost Town	1925-1931	It was located approximately four miles north of Geuda Springs and half a mile west of the intersection of S. Oxford Rd. and E. 80th St., next to an abandoned railroad.
Adel	Ness	Lost Town
Adell-Adel	Sheridan	Lost Town	1879-1882	The town’s name changed from Adell to Adel on February 16, 1885. The town was in Adell Township.
Adelphi/Cresswell/ Arkansas City	Cowley	Name Change	1870-Present	Adelphi and Cresswell were early names of Arkansas City.
Admire	Lyon	Current Town
Adobe	Seward	Lost Town
Adrian	Jackson	Lost Town	1880-1907	A small hamlet situated on the ridge between Cross and Soldier Creeks in Adrian Township. It was about 16 miles southwest of Holton and four miles from Emmett, the nearest railroad station. When the post office closed, it received its mail by rural delivery from Delia. It was 12 miles from St. Mary’s, the nearest banking and shipping point, and 22 miles from Holton,
Advance	Meade			On theChicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Advance	Sheridan	Lost Town	1880-1882	The town was in Saline Township.
Aeolia	Douglas	Lost Town
Aetna	Barber	Lost Town	1885-1946	It was located near the southwestern corner of the county in Aetna Township,
Agenda	Republic	Extinct Town	1874-1883 1888-1998	Agenda, Kansas, is a tiny town in the northern part of Elk Creek Township inRepublic County. As of the 2020 census, the area’s population was 47. It is also officially an “extinct town” because it no longer has a post office.
Afton	Marshall	Lost Town	1893-1898 1900-1901	Afton was located ten miles southwest ofMarysville.
Afton	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1874-1886
Agenda	Republic	Extinct Town	1874-1883 1888-1998	Agenda, Kansas, is a tiny town located in the northern part of Elk Creek Township in Republic County. As of the 2020 census, the area’s population was 47. It is also officially an “extinct town” because it no longer has a post office.
Agnes City	Lyon	Lost Town	None	Incorporated in 1857 by A.J. Baker, E. Mosier, and E.M. Sewell. It was located on theSanta Fe Trail, at the Rock Creek crossing.
Agra	Phillips	Current Town	1887-Present
Agricola/Hardpan	Coffey	Lost Town	1875-1974	The name changed from Hardpan to Agricola on January 24, 1876.
Aiken	McPherson			On theChicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Ailanthus	Ottawa	Lost Town	1872-1878 1881-1882	Ailanthus was a settlement located on the south fork of the Solomon River in the northwestern part of Ottawa County, five miles from Minneapolis, the county seat.
Ailanthus Grove	Norton	Lost Town	1879	The post office was only open for about five months.
Ainsworth	Greeley	Lost Town	1887-1898
Air	Lyon	Lost Town	1880-1900	It was located 3.5 miles north and 1.5 west of Miller.
Akron/Little Dutch	Cowley	Lost Town	1872-1912	The post office moved from Lone Tree. The name changed from Little Dutch to Akron on March 10, 1882.
Akron	Douglas	Lost Town
Aladdin	Douglas	Lost Town
Alamota	Lane	Lost Town		Vacated 1895.
Alamead-Cypress	Lincoln	Lost Town		Also called Allemead and Cypress
Alananthus	Gove	Lost Town		A country post office on theSmoky Hill River in Larabee Township. In 1900, it had a general store and a Congregational Church. It was 24 miles southeast of Gove, the county seat and banking point, and 12 miles northwest of Utica, its shipping point.
Albany	Nemaha	Lost Town	1858-1882	Established by New Yorkers in 1859. The post office was discontinued in 1882. It was two miles north of Sabetha.
Albany	Wilson			On theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Albert	Barton	Current Town	1874-Present
Albia	Washington	Lost Town		A country post office 18 miles north of Washington, the county seat. In 1910, Albia was described as a small hamlet. It was located near the Nebraska line, ten miles north of Morrowville, where the rural free delivery system delivered its mail. Endicott, Nebraska, was the nearest railroad station.
Albion-Gourock	Harper	Lost Town	1878-1902	Gourcok was established in 1878 on theChikaskia River in the western-central part of the county. In January 1883, the name changed from Gourcok to Albion.
Albion	Republic	Lost Town	1871-1877	Located in Albion Township, this town is situated in the northeast corner of Republic County, approximately 12 miles from Belleville, the county seat. The township’s population was about 400 in 1878.
Albion	Sumner
Albion/Pike	Wabaunsee			The name changed to Pike, which was later replaced by a post office named Alta Vista.
Alburtis	Morris	Lost Town	1879-1906	It was located in Warren Township, where, in 1900, a carpenter, a barber, a mason, a blacksmith, and approximately 30 residents lived. It was about two miles from theWabaunsee County line and seven miles fromCouncil Grove.
Alcolia	Greenwood	Lost Town	1874	It was located southwest ofEureka.
Alcona	Rooks			A country post office was 16 miles west of Stockton, the county seat, and the banking and shipping point from which the mail was received.
Alcove Springs	Marshall		NA
Alcyone	Sheridan	Lost Town	1879-1898	The town was in Adell Township.
Alden	Rice	Current Town		It was on theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Alembic	Riley	Lost Town		Also known as Alembria, it is now Leonardsville.
Aleppo	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1891-1903	A country post office in Garden Plain Township had a Catholic Church, a general store, and a blacksmith in 1900. It was located about 15 miles west of Wichita and five miles northwest of Goddard, which had the most convenient railroad station.
Alert	Riley	Lost Town	1871-1886	Alert was west of Randolph.
Alexander	Douglas	Lost Town
Alexander	Rush	Ghost Town	1874-	Alexander Harvey, postmaster
Alexandria	Leavenworth	Lost Town	1856-1857	Alexander was incorporated in 1855 by theBogus Legislature. It was apro-slavery town onStranger Creek.
Alfalfa	Norton	Lost Town	1882	The post office was only open for about three months.
Alfred	Douglas	Lost Town	1875-1902	It was 16 miles southwest of Lawrence, the county seat, and nine miles from Richland, its banking and shipping point. After its post office closed, it received rural free delivery from Lone Star.
Alicari	Ness	Lost Town	1879-1882	Established in 1879.
Alice
Aliceville	Coffey	Ghost Town	1883-1994	Located in Avon Township, it is an interestingghost town with several buildings, a profitable bank, and an active church.
Alida.	Geary	Lost Town		Located on the Union Pacific Railroad in Smoky Hill Township, it was eight miles fromJunction City, the county seat and banking point. In 1900, it had telephone service, a general store, a blacksmith, and a population of 16.
Allen	Lyon	Current Town
Allen County	Allen	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, Allen County, was created in 1855. Iola is the county seat.
Allen Springs	Lane	Lost Town		Established in 1879.
Allendale	Allen	Lost Town	1898-1901	A little hamlet situated about five miles northeast of Iola. It is about equally distant from Carlyle on theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and La Harpe on theMissouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, the nearest railway stations.
Allendale	Johnson	Lost Town	1862-1863
Alliance	Barton	Lost Town		Located northwest of Holyrood, northeast of Claflin.
Alliance	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1881-1895
Alliance	Neosho	Lost Town		Also known as Chicago Junction, New Chicago, and Tioga, it is now part of Chanute.
Alicuri	Ness	Lost Town	1879-1882
Allington	Crawford	Lost Town
Allison	Decatur			Named for a pioneer, it was a country post office in Allison Township. It was 28 miles Southeast of Oberlin, the county seat, and nine miles from Jennings, its nearest banking and shipping point. Stage coaches ran daily to Jennings and Lucerne. In 1900, it had the Continental Creamery Company, a blacksmith, a general store, and a population of 18.
Alloway	Sumner			G.A. Alloway was the townsite owner
Alma	Osage	Lost Town		Vacated 1899.
Alma	Wabaunsee	Current Town	1863-Present	County seat. Founded in 1857, it was named for a city in Germany from which many of its first settlers had come. It was located in Alma Township on theChicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Almena	Norton	Current Town	1872-Present	Almena,Kansas, an incorporated town in Almena Township, Norton County, is situated on Prairie Dog Creek in the northeastern part of the county. As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 363.
Alpha	McPherson	Lost Town	1880-1897
Alta-Valentine	Harvey	Lost Town	1889-1901	The name changed from Valentine to Alta on April 18, 1899.
Alta Vista-Cable City	Wabaunsee	Current Town	1880-Present	Formerly called Albion, it is located in Washington Township. It was on theChicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1887.
Altamont	Labette	Current Town	1870-Present	Located on theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Alton	Atchison	Lost Town		It was three miles east and a mile and a half south ofCaldwell at about 1800 S. Mayfield Road.
Alton	Osborne	Current Town		General H. C. Bull fromWisconsin was the first postmaster. He and Lyman T. Earl were town promoters. The name changed from Bull City to Alton, referring to Alton,Illinois.
Alton	Sumner	Lost Town	1872-1881
Altoona	Wilson	Current Town
Alum Creek	Ellsworth	Name Change		Also called Elm Creek, it later becameCarneiro.
Alva	Cloud	Lost Town	1871-1878	The post office was moved to Jamestown when it closed.
Alverd	Norton	Lost Town	1900	The post office was open for about nine months.
Avilda	Marion	Lost Town	1878-1879
Alvin	Marion	Lost Town	1901-1905
Amador	Butler	Lost Town	1875-1902	In Clifford Township, Amador was located on the east branch of theWhitewater River in the northwestern part ofButler County. In 1878, it exported grain, livestock, and country produce from El Dorado, its nearest shipping point.
Amazon	Finney	Lost Town	1893-1896
Amber	Barber	Lost Town	1883-1899	Amber was a small village on Elm Creek in northeastern Barber County.
Amboy	Rooks	Lost Town
Amherst	Russell	Lost Town	1886-1887
America City	Nemaha	Lost Town	1860-1932	This place was established on theParallel Road fromAtchison,Kansas, toDenver,Colorado, on the Red Vermillion River.
Americus	Lyon	Current Town	1857-Present	Located north of Emporia, it was named for the “celebrated explorer Americus Vespucci. It was on theMissouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Ames	Cloud	Extinct Town	1878-1993	Ames,Kansas, is anextinct town in Shirley Township ofCloud County. However, it is a census-designated place; as of the 2020 census, its population was 33.
Amiot-Mineral Point	Anderson	Lost Town	1887-1951	This settlement was first called Mineral Point because it was believed to be a mound containing minerals. It was formed in about 1856 and was located in the extreme western part of Anderson County, about 16 miles northwest of Garnett. There are no remains of the town today.
Amity	Jewell	Lost Town	1872-1886	In Highland Township, Amity had one of the first post offices inJewell County, with James Mitchell as postmaster.
Amy	Elk	Lost Town	1884-1885	The post office moved to Busby after it closed. An old cemetery remains.
Amy	Lane
Andale	Sedgwick	Current Town	1880-Present
Anderson	Pratt	Lost Town	1879-1880
Anderson	Smith	Lost Town
Anderson County	Anderson	Current County	NA	Anderson County, one of the original 36 counties, was created in 1855. Garnett is the county seat.
Andover	Butler	Current Town	1877-Present	On theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Andrew	Smith	Lost Town
Angelus	Sheridan	Extinct Town	1894-1911	St. Paul’s  Church. German families settled Angelus on theSaline River in Solomon Township in 1881. St. Paul’s Church was built shortly after the arrival of the settlers, and a school was established by 1891. In 1910, it was a trading center for that part of the county, with a population of 30. Campus and Grinnell were the nearest railroad stations on the Union Pacific Railroad. St. Paul’s Church has been a mission parish since 1973. Its spire can be seen for miles around. The town also has an old school that is now used as a barn. Angelus is about 20 miles southwest of Hoxie, the county seat.
Angola	Labette	Extinct Town	1887-1971	Located in the Canadian Township of Labette County, Angola, it was laid out in 1886 by promoters C.H. Kimball and Lee Clark. Located 23 miles southwest of Oswego, the county seat, there are a few buildings left today.
Annelly	Harvey	Lost Town	1885-1921	Located in Richland Township, it was a station on theMissouri Pacific Railroad, nine miles southeast of Newton. In 1910, it had a money order post office, a grain elevator, a hotel, a general store, and did some shipping. The population at that time was 25.
Anness	Sedgwick	Lost Town	1887-1952	Founded in the 1880s by W.H. Wilson, theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad began construction.
Anson	Sumner	Extinct Town	1887-1958	Anson was situated on theMissouri Pacific Railroad in Sumner Township, about ten miles northwest of Wellington.
Antelope	Marion	Lost Town	-1988	A place on the Santa Fe Trail where antelope were seen. The post office closed on June 20, 1988.
Anthony	Harper	Current Town	1878-Present	The county seat of Harper County is 50 miles west ofArkansas City.
Antioch	Osage	Lost Town	1883-1885	The post office moved from Eclipse.
Antone	Pawnee	Lost Town	1879-1883
Antonino	Ellis	Ghost Town		Located south ofHays;
Appanoose	Franklin	Lost Town	1857-1860 1870-1902	Located in the northern part of the county.
Appin	Saline	Lost Town	1873-1875
Appleton	Bourbon	Lost Town	1867-1875	Captain Stevens established it in 1866 near the state line between Kansas and Missouri. At one point, it had a post office, three stores, and a blacksmith shop.
Appleton	Clark	Lost Town
Appomattox	Grant	Lost Town	1890-1894	Vacated 1893. Formed by the consolidation of Cincinnati and Surprise.
Aral	Butler	Lost Town	1880-1902	A little hamlet in Pleasant Township. Aral was about 20 miles southwest ofEl Dorado and three miles from Rose Hill.
Aranthus	Gove	Lost Town	1887-1917	Alanthus was located on theSmoky Hill River in Larrabee Township and was built according to the railroad’s plans. The post office was established in 1887 with Nathan Burkhead as Postmaster. The town then consisted of a lumber yard, a store, and a livery barn. School District No. 48, known as the Alanthus School, was established in 1888.
Arapahoe	Dickinson	Lost Town
Arapahoe	Finney	Lost Town	1885-1886
Arastella	Jewell	Lost Town	1879-1881	Arastella was in Burr Oak Township with James McCormack, a postmaster. It was near the Mitchell County boundary line, on the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, 23 miles from Mankato and about 13 miles from Beloit.
Arcadia	Crawford	Current Town	1866-Present	It was known as Hathaway, Cox’s Creek, Old Arcadia, Finley City, and present Arcadia.
Arcola	Cowley	Lost Town	1871-1872
Arcola	Ellsworth	Lost Town	None
Arcola	Scott	Lost Town	1887-1888
Arcola	Sumner	Lost Town
Arcon	Jewell	Lost Town	1873-1877
Arkona	Sheridan	Lost Town	1880-1881	Arkona was located in Sheridan Township.
Argentine	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1881-1903	Annexed to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1910.
Argonia	Sumner	Current Town	1881-Present	Argonia had the “first woman mayor in the world” — Susana Medora Salter– in 1887.
Argyle	Sumner	Lost Town	1874-1881
Arion	Cloud	Lost Town	1875-1883
Arispie	Pottawatomie	Lost Town	1871-1903	Settled in 1870, Arispie was located on Coal Creek in Greene Township, in the central part of Pottawatomie County. It was ten miles west ofWestmoreland, the county seat.
Arizon-Arizonia	Doniphan	Lost Town	None	Platted on March 1, 1856, near the intersection of Smith’s Creek road and the road from Belmont/St. Joseph ferries.
Arizona	Butler	Lost Town
Arkalon	Seward	Lost Town		On theChicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1888. It was named for Arkalon Tenny, the father of the postmaster.
Arkansas City/Cresswell/Adelphi	Cowley	Current Town	1870-Present	Founded in January 1870. During the 1880s gold rush, mining operations proved unprofitable. In August 1893, over 50,000 people swarmed into the Arkansas City area when land in the Cherokee Strip opened for homesteads.
Arkansas River	Several	Waterway	NA	A major tributary of the Mississippi River, the Arkansas River generally flows eastward and southeastward throughColorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. At 1,469 miles long, it is the sixth-longest river in the United States and the second-longest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system.
Arkansas River	Barton	Lost Town		This was a station on the Santa Fe Trail, one-half mile west of Ellinwood.
Arkona	Sheridan	Lost Town	1880-1881	Arkona was located in Sheridan Township.
Arlington	Osborne	Lost Town		Discontinued 1872.
Arlington	Reno	Current Town	1878-Present	On theChicago and Rock Island Railroad, 1887
Arma	Crawford	Current Town	1891-Present	Named for a coal miner and landowner.
Armistead	Pratt	Lost Town	1879-1887
Armstrong	Wyandotte	Lost Town	1874-1888	Part of Kansas City, Kansas, was consolidated in 1886.
Armourdale	Wyandotte	Extinct Town	1882-1891	Consolidated with Kansas City in 1886.
Armstrong	Leavenworth	Extinct Town	1882-1891	On theKansas Pacific Railroad. Consolidated with Kansas City in 1886.
Army City	Riley	Lost Town	1918-1922	Army City was built in 1917 to satisfy the needs of Camp Funston on theFort Riley, Kansas military reservation.
Arnold	Brown	Lost Town	1897-1898
Arnold-Ingleton	Crawford	Lost Town	1871-1872	The name was changed from Arnold to Ingleton on February 26, 1872.
Arnold	Labette	Lost Town	1881-1887	Arnold was a country post office in Labette County. The post office moved to Angola when it closed.
Arnold	Ness	Ghost Town	1904-2006	Named for J. G. Arnold, a grain elevator owner. The post office closed on August 26, 2006.
Aroma	Dickinson	Lost Town	1869-1888	Aroma was settled in 1859. It was located on Lyons Creek in the southeastern part of Dickinson County and was the first post office in that area.
Arrington	Atchison	Lost Town	1862-1973	Also known as Arrington Springs, it was a settlement situated in the southwestern part of Atchison County, located on theDelaware River.
Artesian City	Meade	Lost Town		Vacated 1893
Arthur	Hodgeman	Lost Town	1878-1890	The post office originally moved from Lostine. It was only open for seven months.
Arthur	Ness	Lost Town
Artois	Meade	Lost Town
Arvonia	Osage	Lost Town	1869-1901	A Welsh population settlement, it was on theAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Ash Grove	Lincoln	Lost Town	1916-1944	An old church and school still stand at 80th and Union Road.
Ash Point	Marshall	Lost Town	None	Ash Point was a stage station on theOverland Trail between Seneca andGuittard Station. It was located a few miles north of whereAxtell now stands.
Ash Point/Laramie Creek Station	Nemaha	Lost Place	1858-1870	Located by Thomas Smith at the junction of the St. Joseph Trail on the Fort Leavenworth and Fort Laramie Military Road. It was a Pony Express Station on theCalifornia Trail and later a stage station on theOverland Stage Route.
Ash Rock	Rooks	Lost Town
Ash Valley	Pawnee	Lost Town	1877-1908 1922-1941	Located in Ash Creek Valley, about 12 miles northwest ofLarned.
Ashcroft	Jefferson	Lost Town	1898-1900	Ashcroft was in Delaware Township, about four miles from Valley Falls
Ashland	Clark	Current Town	1883-Present	The county seat of Clark County.
Ashland	Ness	Lost Town	1875-1883
Ashland Colony	Riley	Lost Town	None	South of the river near Ogden.
Ashler	Chase	Lost Town	1879-1885	Located in the southwest part of Toledo Township, its first postmaster was A.B. Perrigo. When the post office closed, it moved to Elco. It was 11 miles east ofCottonwood Falls, near theLyon County line.
Ashmead	Ellsworth	Lost Town	1875-1888	Moved to Lorraine in 1888.
Ashton	Kingman	Lost Town	1879-1885
Ashton	Sumner	Extinct Town	1887-1971	Old business building. In Walton Township, it was a station on theKansas Southwestern Railway, about 16 miles southeast of Wellington.
Assaria	Saline	Current Town
Astor/Reid	Greeley	Lost Town	1888-1896	First called Reid, the town had 50 residents in June 1887. That year,theMissouri Pacific Railroad came through. In 1888, the town changed its name to Astor. In 1897, Astor became a ghost town. The town company eventually sold the land to pay the back taxes.
Atchison	Atchison	Current Town	1855-Present	County seat. Settled as apro-slavery town. TheBogus Legislature incorporated it in 1855. The take-off point for the California gold fields was in 1850. TheAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad was founded at Atchison in 1871.
Atchison County	Atchison	Current County	NA	One of the original 36 counties, Atchison County, was created in 1855.Atchison is the county seat.
Atchison Steam Ferry	Atchison	Lost Place	NA	Operated in 1857 on theMissouri River. W. L. Challiss & Co., proprietor.
Athelstane	Clay	Lost Town	1872-1875 1878-1898	A small place located in the southern central part ofClay County, 13 miles from Clay Center, the county seat.
Athens	Jewell	Lost Town	1871-1901	Athens was near Limestone Creek in Athens Township, in the southwestern part of Jewell County.
Athens	Woodson	Lost Town
Athol	Smith	Current Town	??-2017	The post office closed on November 18, 2017.
Athy	Grant	Lost Town	1916-1925
Atkin	Graham	Lost Town		Vacated 1889.
Atkinsville	Montgomery	Lost Town		The post office was only open for about six months
Atlanta	Cowley	Current Town	1871-Present
Atlanta	Montgomery	Name Change		The name changed to Rutland.
Atlanta	Rice	Name Change		Now Lyons.
Attica	Ellsworth	Name Change		The name changed to Bosland. Now Wilson.
Attica	Harper	Current Town	1880-Present
Atwater	Meade	Lost Town		Vacated 1899.
Atwood	Rawlins	Current Town	1879-Present	Atwood,Kansas, is a small town and the county seat ofRawlins County. As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 1,290, and the city has a total area of 1.10 square miles, of which 1.04 square miles is land and 0.06 square miles is water.
Aubrey	Hamilton	Name Change		The post office was called Zamora. Both changed to Kendall
Aubry	Johnson	Lost Town	1860-1862 1866-1888	Located in southeastern Johnson County, Aubry was once a bloody battleground during theCivil War’s border troubles.
Auburn	Shawnee	Current Town
Augusta	Butler	Current Town	1868-Present	It was incorporated in 1871 and is located on the tableland near the confluence of the Walnut and Whitewater Rivers on theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Augustine Springs	Wichita	Lost Town
Aulne	Marion	Extinct town	1887-1954	A station on theChicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, six miles south ofMarion. In 1910, it had a money order post office, a good local trade, did considerable shipping, and had a population of 150. Today, the town still has a few buildings and an active church.
Aurora	Cloud	Current Town
Aurora	Coffey	Lost Town	None	The site was located in 1857. Though it was surveyed and platted and a house erected, nothing else was done.
Aurora	Jewell	Lost Town	1871-1882	Aurora was established in October 1871 in the southeastern part of Jewell County. It was located on the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Aurora	Osage	Lost Town	1886	The post office moved from Penfield. It was only open for three months before the post office rescinded an Order of change.
Austin	Neosho	Lost Town	1870 1874-1895 1896-1905	Austin was a Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway station in Canville Township. It was 11 miles northwest of Erie and four miles from Chanute.
Austin	Sumner	Lost Town		The site was located in 1869 and abandoned in 1872.
Avery	Reno	Lost Town	1885-1901	It was located on Peace Creek, about 20 miles northwest of Hutchinson.
Avilda	Marion	Lost Town	1878-1879
Avilla	Comanche	Lost Town		Vacated 1903.
Avoca	Chase	Lost Town	??	Located in bothChase andButler Counties, it was one mile south ofCedar Point.
Avoca	Jackson	Lost Town	1871-1907	A hamlet located near the western line of the county, 11 miles southwest of Holton. When the post office closed, it received its mail by rural delivery from Soldier.
Avon	Coffey	Lost Town	1865-1888
Avondale	Franklin	Lost Town		Formerly Emerson: Moved to Lane.
Axtell	Marshall	Current Town	1871-Present
Ayr	Butler	Lost Town	1875-1885	Ayr was a farming settlement formed in 1871 in the northwestern part of Butler County. In 1878, it had a Presbyterian church and a district school, and its mail was delivered four times weekly to S.S. Osborn, the postmaster.
Ayersburg-Ayersville	Ottawa	Name Change		Now Lindsey.
Ayersville	Marshall	Lost Town	None	In 1855, Ayersville, a village or feed station, was 20 miles south of theNebraska line on the Little Blue River, probably at or near Cedar Falls.

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