Welcome to Appleton ...

So far, we found very little information about Appleton. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Appleton to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Appleton - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Appleton, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Appleton , we believe that it would have been located within present day Bourbon County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Appleton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1867.

Time Zone: The area where Appleton was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Appleton was located: 620

Communities Also Named Appleton ...

While we believe that this Appleton is located in Bourbon County, we know of another 3 Kansas communities named Appleton. Those communities are located in the following counties: Clark, Crawford and Mitchell County.

Beyond Kansas, there are 22 communities that are also named Appleton - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Appleton.

Adding Appleton to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Appleton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Appleton post office opened in 1867.

We also found Appleton in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Appleton.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Bourbon County: www.bourboncountyks.org/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Appleton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Bourbon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/