Eastern Kansas
Atchison County
City of Atchison

Atchison

Atchison is one of the Midwest's most historic and charming towns, in . Atchison has a population of 11021.
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  • Type: Town with 10,200 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States
  • Also known as: “Atchison, Kansas” and “Atchison, KS”
  • Postal code: 66002

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sallie House and Amelia Earhart Birthplace.

The is a haunted house and tourist attraction located in Atchison, Kansas. The house dates back to the mid-1800s, and is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl named Sallie, though Sallie is also thought to be a facade for something more demonic.

Museum
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The is a historic building and museum that was the birthplace of aviator Amelia Earhart. It is located at 223 N. Terrace St. in Atchison, Kansas, United States.

Church
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The is a church at 715 Atchison Street in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Atchison

Latitude
39.5632° or 39° 33′ 48″ north
Longitude
-95.1199° or 95° 7′ 12″ west
Population
10,200
Elevation
814 feet (248 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ATQ
Open location code
86F6HV7J+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151948344
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4267733
Wiki­data ID
Q753949
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Atchison” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أتشيسون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atçison”
  • Basque: “Atchison”
  • Belarusian: “Атчысан”
  • Bengali: “আচিসন”
  • Bulgarian: “Ачисън”
  • Catalan: “Atchison”
  • Cebuano: “Atchison”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاتچیسن”
  • Chechen: “Атчисон”
  • Chinese: “Atchison”
  • Chinese: “艾奇逊”
  • Chinese: “艾奇遜 (堪薩斯州)”
  • Czech: “Atchison”
  • Dagbani: “Atchison”
  • Danish: “Atchison”
  • Dutch: “Atchison (Kansas)”
  • Dutch: “Atchison”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتشيسون”
  • Esperanto: “Atchison”
  • Finnish: “Atchison”
  • French: “Atchison”
  • German: “Atchison”
  • Gilaki: “أچسن (کانزاس)”
  • Gilaki: “أچسن”
  • Greek: “Άτσισον”
  • Gujarati: “એચીસન”
  • Haitian: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Haitian: “Atchison”
  • Hebrew: “אצ’יסון”
  • Hindi: “एटचिसन”
  • Hungarian: “Atchison”
  • Ido: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Ido: “Atchison”
  • Indonesian: “Atchison, kansas”
  • Indonesian: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Indonesian: “Atchison”
  • Irish: “Atchison”
  • Italian: “Atchison”
  • Japanese: “アチソン”
  • Japanese: “アッチソン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಚಿಸನ್”
  • Korean: “애치슨”
  • Ladin: “Atchison”
  • Latvian: “Ačisona”
  • Lithuanian: “Ačisonas”
  • Malay: “Atchison”
  • Marathi: “एटचिसन”
  • Mazanderani: “اچسن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Atchison”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atchison”
  • Norwegian: “Atchison”
  • Persian: “اچسن، کانزاس”
  • Persian: “اچسن”
  • Polish: “Atchison (Kansas)”
  • Polish: “Atchison”
  • Portuguese: “Atchison”
  • Romanian: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Romanian: “Atchison”
  • Russian: “Атчисон”
  • Serbian: “Ачисон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atchison”
  • Sinhala: “ඇචිසන්”
  • Slovak: “Atchison”
  • Slovenian: “Atchison”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آچیسون، کانزاس”
  • Spanish: “Atchison”
  • Swedish: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Swedish: “Atchison”
  • Tagalog: “Atchison”
  • Tamil: “அட்சிசொன்”
  • Tatar: “Атчисон”
  • Telugu: “అట్చిసన్”
  • Thai: “อัทชิสัน”
  • Turkish: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Turkish: “Atchison”
  • Ukrainian: “Атчисон”
  • Urdu: “ایچیسن، کنساس”
  • Urdu: “ایچیسن”
  • Uzbek: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Uzbek: “Atchison, KS”
  • Uzbek: “Atchison”
  • Vietnamese: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Vietnamese: “Atchison”
  • Volapük: “Atchison (Kansas)”
  • Volapük: “Atchison (KS)”
  • Volapük: “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Volapük: “Atchison, KS”
  • Volapük: “Atchison, Missouri River”
  • Volapük: “Atchison”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atchison, Kansas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atchison”
  • Welsh: “Atchison”

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