Grantville, Kansas
census designated place in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States
Grantville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 182. It is located east of Topeka on the south side of US-24 between Barton and KOA / Wilson roads.
History
Grantville was named in 1866 for Ulysses S. Grant, military commander in the Civil War and afterward 18th President of the United States.
The first post office in Grantville was established in October 1866.
Geography
Grantville is located in southwestern Jefferson County at 39°05′00″N 95°33′41″W (39.083333, -95.561367), off U.S. Route 24. It is located in southwestern Kaw Township at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m), in the valley of the Kansas River. U.S. Route 24 runs along the northern edge of the community, leading east 9 miles (14 km) to Perry and west 5 miles (8 km) to the northern part of Topeka. Downtown Topeka is 9 miles (14 km) to the west and south of Grantville.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Grantville CDP has an area of 1.95 square miles (5.05 km2), all land.
“Grantville, Kansas” enters the record as census designated place in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grantville, Kansas and census can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Grantville, Kansas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Grantville, Kansas and census provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q938486. Authority coordinates are 39.083, -95.561. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1866.
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This entry incorporates text from “Grantville, Kansas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.