Places - Stanton KSGenWeb

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Populated Places

Edwin, a small hamlet of Stanton county, is located on Bear creek about 5 miles northeast of Johnson, the county seat, from which place mail is received by rural delivery. Syracuse is the nearest railroad station. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 568.

Fisher, a post-hamlet of Stanton county, is located near the northwest corner, 15 miles from Johnson, the county seat, and 24 miles southwest of Syracuse, which is the nearest railroad station. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 646.

Johnson, the county seat of Stanton county, is centrally located, and is 30 miles south of Syracuse, its nearest railroad station and shipping point. It has a daily stage to that town. There are about a dozen retail establishments and a weekly newspaper (the Stanton County Journal), is published. It has a money order postoffice. The population according to the census of 1910 was 40. It was established in 1885 under the name of Veteran, by the Veteran Town company. Later it became Johnson City and under that name was victorious in the county seat fight of 1887. During the hard times the population dwindled and in the early '90s was 10. In 1906 it had but one inhabitant and had the distinction of being the smallest county seat town in the world. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 32.

Roanoke, a country postoffice in Stanton county, is located in the township of the same name 12 miles south of Johnson, the county seat, and about 40 miles south of Syracuse, the nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was 27. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 588.