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The amount of information varies but may include the legal location, alternate spellings of the name, the dates of post office operation and the name of the first postmaster (if there was a post office) and a listing of further sources of information about the town's history.</p> <p> <form method="post" action="/geog/geog_deadtowns/searchredir" accept-charset="utf-8"><div style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST" /></div> <table width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="Right"><strong>Name (or first few letters):</strong></td> <td><input name="placename" size="30" maxlength="30"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="RIGHT" valign=top>Search for similar names?</td> <td><input TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="sndx" VALUE=yes></td> </tr> <tr> <TD align="RIGHT"><STRONG>County: </STRONG></TD> <TD><SELECT NAME="county" SIZE="1"> <OPTION value=""> </OPTION> <OPTION value="" selected='SELECTED'>Any/All</OPTION> <option VALUE="AL">Allen</option> <option VALUE='AN'>Anderson</option> <option VALUE="AT">Atchison</option> <option VALUE="BA">Barber</option> <option VALUE="BT">Barton</option> <option VALUE="BB">Bourbon</option> <option VALUE="BR">Brown</option> <option VALUE="BU">Butler</option> <option VALUE="CS">Chase</option> <option VALUE="CQ">Chautauqua</option> <option VALUE="CK">Cherokee</option> <option VALUE="CN">Cheyenne</option> <option VALUE="CA">Clark</option> <option VALUE="CY">Clay</option> <option VALUE="CD">Cloud</option> <option VALUE="CF">Coffey</option> <option VALUE="CM">Comanche</option> <option VALUE="CL">Cowley</option> <option VALUE="CR">Crawford</option> <option VALUE="DC">Decatur</option> <option VALUE="DK">Dickinson</option> <option VALUE="DP">Doniphan</option> <option VALUE="DG">Douglas</option> <option VALUE="ED">Edwards</option> <option VALUE="EK">Elk</option> <option VALUE="EL">Ellis</option> <option VALUE="EW">Ellsworth</option> <option VALUE="FI">Finney</option> <option VALUE="FO">Ford</option> <option VALUE="FR">Franklin</option> <option VALUE="GE">Geary</option> <option VALUE="GO">Gove</option> <option VALUE="GH">Graham</option> <option VALUE="GT">Grant</option> <option VALUE="GY">Gray</option> <option VALUE="GL">Greeley</option> <option VALUE="GW">Greenwood</option> <option VALUE="HM">Hamilton</option> <option VALUE="HP">Harper</option> <option VALUE="HV">Harvey</option> <option VALUE="HS">Haskell</option> <option VALUE="HG">Hodgeman</option> <option VALUE="JA">Jackson</option> <option VALUE="JF">Jefferson</option> <option VALUE="JW">Jewell</option> <option VALUE="JO">Johnson</option> <option VALUE="KE">Kearny</option> <option VALUE="KM">Kingman</option> <option VALUE="KW">Kiowa</option> <option VALUE="LB">Labette</option> <option VALUE="LE">Lane</option> <option VALUE="LV">Leavenworth</option> <option VALUE="LC">Lincoln</option> <option VALUE="LN">Linn</option> <option VALUE="LG">Logan</option> <option VALUE="LY">Lyon</option> <option VALUE="MN">Marion</option> <option VALUE="MS">Marshall</option> <option VALUE="MP">McPherson</option> <option VALUE="ME">Meade</option> <option VALUE="MI">Miami</option> <option VALUE="MC">Mitchell</option> <option VALUE="MG">Montgomery</option> <option VALUE="MR">Morris</option> <option VALUE="MT">Morton</option> <option VALUE="NM">Nemaha</option> <option VALUE="NO">Neosho</option> <option VALUE="NS">Ness</option> <option VALUE="NT">Norton</option> <option VALUE="OS">Osage</option> <option VALUE="OB">Osborne</option> <option VALUE="OT">Ottawa</option> <option VALUE="PN">Pawnee</option> <option VALUE="PL">Phillips</option> <option VALUE="PT">Pottawatomie</option> <option VALUE="PR">Pratt</option> <option VALUE="RA">Rawlins</option> <option VALUE="RN">Reno</option> <option VALUE="RP">Republic</option> <option VALUE="RC">Rice</option> <option VALUE="RL">Riley</option> <option VALUE="RO">Rooks</option> <option VALUE="RH">Rush</option> <option VALUE="RS">Russell</option> <option VALUE="SA">Saline</option> <option VALUE="SC">Scott</option> <option VALUE="SG">Sedgwick</option> <option VALUE="SW">Seward</option> <option VALUE="SN">Shawnee</option> <option VALUE="SD">Sheridan</option> <option VALUE="SH">Sherman</option> <option VALUE="SM">Smith</option> <option VALUE="SF">Stafford</option> <option VALUE="ST">Stanton</option> <option VALUE="SV">Stevens</option> <option VALUE="SU">Sumner</option> <option VALUE="TH">Thomas</option> <option VALUE="TR">Trego</option> <option VALUE="WB">Wabaunsee</option> <option VALUE="WA">Wallace</option> <option VALUE="WS">Washington</option> <option VALUE="WH">Wichita</option> <option VALUE="WL">Wilson</option> <option VALUE="WO">Woodson</option> <option VALUE="WY">Wyandotte</option> </SELECT></TD> </tr> <tr> <td align=center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="SEARCH"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </form> </p> <p> This searchable database/index includes the town's name(s), the present-day county in which the townsite is located, and sometimes brief notes. The originals and a printed version are available at the Kansas Historical Society; a microfilm version is available for <a href="/library/illpoli.htm">interlibrary loan</a>.</p> <ul> <li> Reel MS 1165, Abbey Farm to Cess</li> <li> Reel MS 1166, Chaffee to French Valley</li> <li> Reel MS 1167, Friendlay to Limestone</li> <li> Reel MS 1168, Lincoln to Pawneapolis</li> <li> Reel MS 1169, Pawnee to Stella</li> <li> Reel MS 1170, Stephen to Zyba</li> </ul> <p> For more information, see the <a href="/p/little-known-or-extinct-kansas-towns-of-kansas/14012#">finding aid</a> to the collection.</p> <p> This searchable index was prepared by <a href="/involved/volunteer/index.htm">volunteer</a> Melvin D. 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Little Known or "Extinct Towns", ca. 1940 - Kansas Historical Society