Lookout Township is a
township
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Ellis County,
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
, United States. As of the
2010 census, its population was 579.
Geography
Lookout Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement,
Schoenchen and the unincorporated settlement of
Antonino. According to the
USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
, it contains one cemetery, Saint Anthony, at Antonino. The township was the focus of the 1890s gold rush hoax witnessing the short lived settlements of
Smoky Hill City and
Chetolah.
History
A post office was opened at Palatine in 1880. The post office relocated across the
Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, running through Colorado and Kansas.
Names
The Smoky Hill is named from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows. American Indians li ...
to
Chetolah in 1888, but was discontinued in 1897.
References
External links
City-Data.com
Townships in Ellis County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas
{{EllisCountyKS-geo-stub