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Atchison is a city in, and the county seat of, Atchison County, Kansas, United States, [1] along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 10,885. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ...
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Atchison & Pike's Peak RR Company stock certificate. The Kansas Territorial Legislature incorporated the Central Branch as the Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad in February 1859, with the power to build from Atchison, on the Missouri River, west to the Kansas-Colorado line in the direction of Pike's Peak or Denver. [2]
The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The railroad reached the Kansas–Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876.
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Atchison County, Kansas. Highlighting Atchison in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Atchison County is a county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Atchison. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 16,348. [1] The county was named in honor of David Atchison, a U.S. Senator from Missouri and border ruffian during the "Bleeding Kansas" era. [4]
Locator map showing Atchison County in Kansas. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]