| Arkalon, Kansas | |
| Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
| Image Map1: | Map of Seward Co, Ks, USA.png |
| Map Caption1: | KDOT map of Seward County (legend) |
| Pushpin Map: | Kansas#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Arkalon |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Coordinates: | 37.1431°N -100.8075°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kansas |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Seward |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1888 |
| Established Title1: | Platted |
| Established Date1: | 1888 |
| Named For: | Arkalon Tenney |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Elevation Ft: | 2618 |
| Population Total: | 0 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | 620 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 20-02290 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS ID |
Arkalon is a ghost town in Seward County, Kansas, United States. It was located northeast of Liberal on the west side of the Cimarron River.
After the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built through the area in 1888, a townsitesprang up and platted in 1888.[2] The town was named Arkalon for Arkalon Tenney, the father of the firstpostmaster of the town, Hosea Eugene Tenney.[3] A post office called Arkalon was established in 1888 and remained in operation until 1929.[4]
The Arkalon News newspaper was published from April 1888 until December 1892.[3] In 1891, a one-room school house was opened for children.[3] [5] A large stockyard was erected for shipping cattle to market. While the nearby river held promise for the early settlers, they soon found that the bottom land next the Cimarron River was too sandy for farming and flooded too often. By the 1920s most of the early settlers had left, leaving only the railroad and stockyards behind.[3]