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Atchison County, Kansas

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
52historic places
—earliest paper
1855formed
16,348pop. 2020
37cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 52 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Atchison, Atchinson, Farmington.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kansas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Atchison titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

27 of 52 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

52 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
A. J. Harwi Hardware Company BuildingAtchisonBuilding2021
Atchinson Santa Fe Freight DepotAtchisonBuilding2001
Atchison County CourthouseAtchisonBuilding1975
Atchison County Memorial HallAtchisonBuilding2007
Atchison Post OfficeAtchisonBuilding1972
Atchison YMCAAtchisonBuilding2020
Atchison’s Black Business DistrictAtchisonDistrict2025
Baker, Francis and Harriet, HouseAtchisonBuilding2003
Benedictine College North Campus Historic ComplexAtchisonBuilding1982
Bolman, George T. and Minnie Searles, HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
Braun, Henry, HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
Brown, J. P., HouseAtchisonBuilding1975
Burnes Rental Houses Historic DistrictAtchisonBuilding2005
Campbell Chapel AME ChurchAtchisonBuilding2003
Central SchoolAtchisonBuilding2022
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Freight DepotAtchisonBuilding2023
Drimmel, John, Sr., FarmAtchisonBuilding2004
Earhart, Amelia, BirthplaceAtchisonBuilding1971
Earhart, Amelia, Historic DistrictAtchisonDistrict2002
Ebenezer Baptist ChurchAtchisonBuilding2005
Edmiston, James M., HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
First Presbyterian Church of AtchisonAtchisonBuilding2026
Glancy/Pennell HouseAtchisonBuilding1983
Glick-Orr HouseAtchisonBuilding1992
Harwi, A. J., HouseAtchisonBuilding1975
Hausner HouseAtchisonBuilding2005
Hetherington, W. W., HouseAtchisonBuilding1974
Horan, Michael J. and Mattie, HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
Howard, Frank, HouseAtchisonBuilding1984
Howe, Edgar W., HouseAtchisonBuilding1972
Howe, Edgar W., HouseAtchisonBuilding2021
Jansen HouseAtchisonBuilding2005
Julius Kuhn BlockAtchisonBuilding2023
Lanphear-Mitchell HouseAtchisonBuilding2005
Lincoln SchoolAtchisonBuilding2006
Martin, John A., Grade SchoolAtchisonBuilding2016
McInteer VillaAtchisonBuilding1975
Mount St. Scholastica ConventAtchisonBuilding1972
Mount Vernon CemeteryAtchisonDistrict2024
Muchnic, H. E., HouseAtchisonBuilding1974
Park, Anna & Richard Avery, MansionAtchisonBuilding2025
Pease, Robert L., HouseAtchisonBuilding1983
Price VillaAtchisonBuilding1972
Ramsay, Ronald and Dorcas, HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
Schmitt HouseAtchinsonBuilding2005
St. Patrick's Catholic ChurchAtchisonBuilding1998
Stein, Frederick W., HouseAtchisonBuilding2004
Stranger Creek Warren Truss BridgeFarmingtonStructure2004
Trinity Episcopal ChurchAtchisonBuilding1985
Waggener, B. P., HouseAtchisonBuilding1974
Waggener, Balie P., HouseAtchisonBuilding2006
Wherrett-Mize Drug Company BuildingAtchisonBuilding2010

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Atchison was formed in 1855 (1855-08-25) from unknown / original county.

ATCHISON created by Kansas Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Atchison County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

29k18k7,7291860188019201940196020002020
1860188019001920194019501960198020002020
7,72926,66828,60623,41122,22221,49620,89818,39716,77416,348

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

37 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 37 of 37 listed
NameLatLon
Ashcraft Cemetery39.46941-95.14789
Brush Creek Cemetery39.60972-95.47053
Camp Creek Cemetery39.52012-95.23431
Cummings Cemetery39.62413-95.11262
Cummings District Cemetery39.45995-95.24176
Effingham Cemetery39.51505-95.3972
Ernst Family Cemetery39.45342-95.47822
Fairview Cemetery39.42389-95.16164
Forest Grove Cemetery39.58086-95.41712
Good Intent Cemetery39.60238-95.2277
Lancaster Cemetery39.56651-95.30619
Maple Grove Cemetery39.55034-95.36002
Miller Cemetery39.48555-95.52756
Monrovia Cemetery39.51493-95.34699
Mount Calvary Cemetery39.59629-95.13126
Mount Gillian Cemetery39.45989-95.06718
Mount Saint Scholastica Cemetery39.55239-95.12742
Mount Vernon Cemetery39.53889-95.14358
Muscotah Cemetery39.55378-95.51257
Myers Cemetery39.63676-95.11528
Neill Cemetery39.44968-95.39443
Oak Hill Cemetery39.56316-95.14406
Old Huron Cemetery39.60561-95.35882
Orphans Home Cemetery39.59346-95.11055
Pardee Cemetery39.49142-95.2864
Pleasant Grove Cemetery39.47861-95.38608
Round Mound Cemetery39.46472-95.19108
Saint Anns Catholic Cemetery39.51859-95.4011
Saint Benedicts Abbey Cemetery39.57725-95.10988
Saint Louis Cemetery39.62414-95.22684
Saint Patrick Cemetery39.46909-95.12408
Sapp Cemetery39.44305-95.02358
Springhill Cemetery39.43033-95.20251
Sumner Cemetery39.51622-95.10855
Sunset Memory Gardens39.59777-95.13538
Taylor Cemetery39.58666-95.10553
Wheatland Cemetery39.64502-95.56355

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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