Marquette, KS

Marquette is a city in McPherson County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 599 residents. Marquette is located between K-4 and the Smoky Hill River. For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. Marquette is a town that is offering parcels of residential land for free on the condition that the recipient build a home within a specified deadline. They are part of the Washington Street Historic District, a state historic site. The downtown area includes the Range School Museum, a one-room 1906 schoolhouse moved there about eighty years later.

The Smoky Valley High School mascot is Smoky Valley Vikings. Marquette's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kansas setting. The local scoop is how Marquette's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Marquette is located in the Smoky Hills region of Kansas.