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Chardon

Ghost town · Rawlins County, Kansas

Chardon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:62,500)
Chardon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Chardon is a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Rawlins County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 59 Kansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chardon as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 39.6547° N, 101.0571° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Kansas before 1931 that mention “Chardon”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 119 pages in all.

Key facts

Elevation3,177 ft
Nearest living townAtwood, KS
Distance to it10.8 miles
Coordinates39.65472, -101.05710

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Chardon today, aerial view
Chardon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:62,500)

Left: Chardon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Chardon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Atwood, KS (population 1,388), about 10.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,177 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Chardon?

Chardon is in Rawlins County, Kansas, at 39.6547, -101.0571.

How many ghost towns are in Rawlins County?

Rawlins County, Kansas has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.