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Frederick is a city in Eureka Township, Rice County, in central Kansas, and with just 8 residents in the 2020 census it is the smallest incorporated city in Kansas.

Frederick arose as a shipping point at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) railroads and was incorporated in 1909.

A post office opened in Frederick — also spelled 'Frederic' historically — in 1887 and operated until 1954.

Frederick peaked at 151 residents in the 1910 census and has shrunk almost every decade since, falling to 18 people in 2010 and 8 people in 4 households in 2020.

In 2015 Frederick had no city council and no one ran for mayor, and because Kansas law requires residents to petition their own council to dissolve a city, Rice County was powerless to unincorporate it.

In November 2016 a dissolution vote appeared to keep Frederick alive 13-to-7, but election workers had accidentally given ballots to township residents who did not live in the city; the error was caught after the contest deadline, so the result stood and Frederick remained a city.

A second dissolution vote in November 2017 tied 2-2, short of the two-thirds needed, so Frederick survived again and remains an incorporated city on just 0.19 square miles.

Frederick is served by Central Plains USD 112 public school district.