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Hiawatha (Kan.)
The county seat of Brown County, the town was named for the main character of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, 'The Song of Hiawatha'.
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Emporia (Kan.)
The county seat of Lyon County, the town was named for a commercial center in ancient Carthage.
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Crestline (Kan.)
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Council Grove (Kan.)
The county seat of Morris County. It is located on the old Santa Fe Trail, which runs through the middle of town.
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Centropolis (Kan.)
The town originated as a trading post for trading with the Ottawa people who lived in the area.
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Caldwell (Kan.)
The town was named for U.S. Senator Alexander Caldwell. It is located along the Chisholm Trail.
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Arkansas City (Kan.)
The town is located at the confluence of the Arkansas and Walnut Rivers.
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Wyandotte County (Kan.)
Located in northeast Kansas, along the Missouri border, the county was named for the Wyandotte people who lived in the area. The county seat is Kansas City.
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Sumner County (Kan.)
Located in central-south Kansas, along the Oklahoma border, the county was named for U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. The county seat is Wellington.
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Shawnee County (Kan.)
Located in north-central Kansas, the county was named for the Shawnee people who lived in the area. The county seat is Topeka.
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Sedgwick County (Kan.)
Located in south-central Kansas, the county was named for General John Sedgwick, the highest ranking Union general killed during the Civil War. The county seat is Wichita.
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Republic County (Kan.)
Located in central-north Kansas, along the Nebraska border, the county was named for the Republic River that flows through the county. The county seat is Belleville.
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Osage County (Kan.)
Located in central-east Kansas the county was named for the Osage River that flows through the county. The county seat is Lyndon.
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Morris County (Kan.)
Located in east-central Kansas, the county was named for U.S. Senator Thomas Morris. The county seat is Council Grove.
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Lyon County (Kan.)
Located in east-central Kansas, the county was named for General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general to die in the Civil War. The county seat is Emporia.
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Linn County (Kan.)
Located in central-east Kansas, along the border with Missouri, the county was named for U.S. Senator Lewis Fields Linn. The county seat is Mound City.
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Leavenworth County (Kan.)
Located in the northeast corner of Kansas, along the Missouri border, the county was named for General Henry Leavenworth. The county seat is also called Leavenworth.
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Franklin County (Kan.)
Located in central-east Kansas, the county was named for founding father Benjamin Franklin. The county seat is Ottawa.
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Douglas County (Kan.)
Located in the northeast of Kansas, the county was named for U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas, one of Abraham Lincoln's opponents in the 1860 presidential election. The county seat is Lawrence.
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Cowley County (Kan.)
Located along the southern border with Oklahoma, the county was named for First Lieutenant Matthew Cowley, who died at Little Rock, Arkansas in 1864. The county seat is Winfield.
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Cherokee County (Kan.)
Located in the southeast corner of Kansas, along both the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, the county is located on what was once known as the Cherokee Neutral Lands. The county was named for the Cherokee people. The county seat is Columbus.
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Brown County (Kan.)
Located in the northeast corner of Kansas, along the Nebraska border, the county was named for U.S. Senator Albert G. Brown. The county seat is Hiawatha. The county encompases the majority of three Native American reservations.
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Victor (Colo.)
A central location in Colorado's gold mining industry, Victor probably housed most of the miners who worked in the mines of the Cripple Creek district. The town believed to have been maned for the Victor Mine, which in turn may have been named for Victor Adams, an early settler of the area.
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Denver (Colo.)
'Denver' refers to both the city and county of Denver, as they consolidated into a single governing unit.
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Dearfield (Colo.)
Founded in 1910 by Oliver Tousaint Jackson (1862-1948) an African American man who bought the land. By 1922 this all-black community had over 700 residents but, due to the post-World War I agricultural depression and the drought in the late 1920s, the town closed and is a ghost town today.