Places in Kansas

Counties
Brief histories of current and former Kansas counties with a map showing their location and links to additional resources.

Post Offices
Histories of Kansas post offices, including a database that can be searched by date, town or county to find the location of every known Kansas post office with its dates of operation. These dates can indicate approximately when the town was established and, in some cases, when it disappeared.

Little Known or Extinct Towns of Kansas ("Dead Towns")
Information about approximately 4500 Kansas towns from the territorial period to ca. 1940 available on microfilm for interlibrary loan.

Townships in Kansas
In Kansas, townships are a government entity larger than a town or city but smaller than a county. Kansas state censuses for areas outside incorporated cities are grouped by the township divisions within the county. Over time, some of these government entities have changed their names and boundaries.

Cemeteries in Kansas, 1906
A list of Kansas cemeteries, published in 1906, that gives the county and township or city where the cemetery is located, and the size of the cemetery in acres. Names of the people buried there are not included.

Topeka Building Permits Index, 1880-1914
This database can be searched by street address or by the year the permit was issued.