Walton, KS

Walton is a city in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 219 residents. Walton is named in honor of one of the 19th century stockholders of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. Walton Rural Life Festival, every October. Walton students of junior and high school ages attend school in Newton. The short version is that Walton carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Walton: its past remains attached to the places people use now. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America. Walton is near the dividing line between the Cottonwood and Arkansas River basins and near the highest ground in Harvey County. Walton includes the New Santa Fe Trail.