List of ghost towns in Kansas
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in the state of Kansas.
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Many reasons exist as to why a community becomes abandoned (or nearly so).
- Transportation: With the development of major highways and interstates, people were willing to travel farther for goods and services causing local businesses in smaller towns to lose customers and ultimately close. The more businesses that close, the more people are apt to want to move away to a bigger town. Transportation has played a major role in settlement in Kansas. As traffic from the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails increased, towns boomed along them. When railroads were established towns developed along the tracks or even moved to where the tracks were.
- Politics: In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either proslavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, proslavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on it winning the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically had most, if not all, of their town die out.
- Lack of employment: Towns that catered to a specific industry such as coal mining or military housing were boom towns that quickly died when their markets collapsed. Some towns that mainly relied on agriculture were abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl period.
- Eminent domain / flood control: Since 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has sought to control floods through the building of dams along rivers and the resulting outcome is a town having to be moved or abandoned and demolished.
- Environmental degradation: Remnants of lead and zinc mining can cause soil contamination that can render entire communities uninhabitable; e.g. Treece.[1]
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List of ghost towns in Kansas that are not incorporated cities or unincorporated communities:
Allen County
Anderson County
Atchison County
Butler County
Chase County
Cherokee County
Cheyenne County
Clark County
- Lexington
- Letitia was located southwest of Minneola
Clay County
Cloud County
Cowley County
Decatur County
Doniphan County
Douglas County
Elk County
Ellis County
Ellsworth County
Finney County
Franklin County
Geary County
Gove County
Graham County
Greeley County
Greenwood County
Harper County
Harvey County
Haskell County
Jewell County
Labette County
Leavenworth County
Lincoln County
Linn County
- Barnard
- Blooming Grove
- Brooklin
- Keokuk
- Hail Ridge
- Harmonia
- Jackson
- Linnville
- Mansfield
- Moneka
- Oakwood
- Paris
- Potosi
- Twin Springs
Logan County
Marion County
Marshall County
Mitchell County
Montgomery County
Morris County
Neosho
Norton County
Osborne County
Ottawa County
Phillips County
Rawlins County
Reno County
- Kent
Republic County
Rice County
Rooks County
Rush County
Russell County
Seward County
Shawnee County
Sheridan County
Smith County
Stevens County
Sumner County
- Bushnell
- Cleardale
- Doster
- Ewell
- Metcalf
- Roland
- Sumner City
Thomas County
Trego County
Wabaunsee County
Washington County
Wichita County
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