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Centropolis is an unincorporated census-designated place in Franklin County, Kansas, located about 11 miles northwest of Ottawa, and it is considered the first town in Franklin County.

Perry Fuller first settled the Centropolis area in 1855 and established a large frame store there to trade with the nearby Ottawa Indians.

In 1856 Fuller organized the Centropolis Town Company and began selling lots, and the community's name is a portmanteau of the words central and metropolis.

Fuller expected Centropolis to become not only the Franklin County seat but also the territorial capital of Kansas and eventually the state capital, and in the 1850s the town briefly vied for the territorial capital.

Franklin County's first commercial newspaper, the Kansas Leader, was founded in Centropolis in 1857, a year after a missionary newspaper published by Jotham Meeker for the Ottawa Baptist Mission had become the county's first newspaper of any kind.

Centropolis had about 175 inhabitants in 1860, but a severe drought that year drove many of its settlers away.

The Centropolis post office was first established on August 4, 1858, and after several interruptions it closed for good in 1930, which is why the community is classed as an extinct town even though people still live there.

The 2020 census counted 100 people in 50 households and 31 families in the Centropolis CDP, at a density of 298.5 people per square mile.

Centropolis still retains several of its old buildings, including two active churches, long after its 1850s boom faded.