Kansas Places

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

State Archives, Topeka

• Questions about holdings contact reference staff
• Search the archives catalog for unpublished records and manuscripts
• Search Topeka Libraries Catalog (ATLAS)