Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Cedar Point, KS

Cedar Point is a tiny city in western Chase County in the Flint Hills of Kansas, founded in 1862 on the Cottonwood River about five miles east of Florence and half a mile south of U.S. Route 50.

Cedar Point's first settlers were brothers Orlo H. and Delos F. Drinkwater, who arrived in 1857, and their log cabin, known as Fort Drinkwater, served as a gathering place and a refuge for area settlers until 1868.

Orlo Drinkwater named the local Cedar Creek for its abundant cedar trees, was appointed the first postmaster on June 23, 1862, and named the post office Cedar Point.

Cedar Point's landmark stone flour mill on the Cottonwood River — begun as a sawmill behind a log dam in 1867, rebuilt in stone and completed in 1875 as the Drinkwater & Schriver Mill — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 after a partial restoration.

Cedar Point has a second National Register listing, the 1916 Cottonwood River Pratt truss bridge just west of town.

Cedar Point was not incorporated until 1912, fifty years after its founding, and its schools were later consolidated with Cottonwood Falls; the old Cedar Point High School mascot was the Bronchos, and the community is now served by Chase County USD 284.

The 2020 census counted just 22 people in Cedar Point, down from 28 in 2010, when the city had 13 households on only about 0.08 square miles.