Kansas Places

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Above Index includes:

Post Offices Every known Kansas post office with its dates of operation
Little Known or Extinct Towns of Kansas ("Dead Towns") Approximately 4500 Kansas towns from the territorial period to around 1940
Townships in Kansas Townships are a government entity larger than a town or city but smaller than a county
Counties Brief histories of current and former Kansas counties
Cemeteries in Kansas, 1906 list that gives early cemetery locations

Other Resources:

Property Ownership Maps by County
Telephone, City and Farm Directories
Incorporation of Kansas Cities
Topeka Building Permits Index, 1880-1914
House History Checklist
Aerial photos of Kansas on Kansas Memory
- Additional aerial photos available for most Kansas counties.
- Digitized aerial photos are also available from the Kansas Data Access and Support Center.
National & State Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Land Records at the State Archives
The first Official State Atlas of Kansas, L. H. Everts & Co., 1887, on the Stanford University Map Library website.
Sanborn Maps Of Kansas Towns Maps of selected towns that were created for fire insurance purposes.
- For copyright free Sanborn maps see University of Kansas Digital Commons website.

Genealogy resources

Kansas newspaper database - the largest collection in Kansas
Vital records - where to look in Kansas
Search the Archives Catalog for state records and manuscripts.
Search our online catalog
Contact our reference staff for the rest of our holdings
Use Ancestry.com free of charge in our research room

Family in front of dugout, Ford County, Kansas

State Archives, Topeka

Kansas map Topeka

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Search the archives catalog for unpublished records and manuscripts
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