Florence, KS

Florence is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 394 residents. The city was named after the daughter of the third governor of Kansas, Samuel J. Crawford. Florence Labor Day Celebration, 76th annual in 2013. Florence High School Alumni Banquet, 117th annual in 2013, Memorial Day Weekend. Florence's schools have been closed and students attend schools in Marion. In Florence, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Florence, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places.

Florence is located at the intersection of U.S. routes 50 and 77 highways. For millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. In 1806, Zebulon Pike led the Pike Expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri, of which part of their journey followed the Cottonwood River through Marion County near the future cities of Florence, Marion, and Durham.