Biohazard Cleanup Near Kickapoo Site 2 Historic District Kickapoo Site 2, KS

Kickapoo Site 2 is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Brown County, Kansas, located on the Kickapoo Indian Reservation — it is a tribal community, not an incorporated city.

Kickapoo Site 2 sits in southwestern Brown County near the center of the Kickapoo Reservation and is one of the numbered census-designated places the Census Bureau delineates on the reservation, sharing the Horton ZIP Code 66439.

The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas has been in this area since the 1832 Treaty of Castor Hill, when the tribe ceded its Missouri lands for a home in Kansas, and the 1854 treaty left the tribe its western lands as a permanent home.

Today's Kickapoo Reservation covers about 19,200 acres, and the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas is headquartered in nearby Horton and governed by an elected tribal council.

The 2020 census counted just 27 people in Kickapoo Site 2, in 9 households and 6 families — down 20.6 percent from the 34 people counted in 2010.

Kickapoo Site 2 is an overwhelmingly Native American community: 25 of its 27 residents in 2020, or 92.6 percent, were Native American or Alaska Native, and its average household size of about 4.4 people is far larger than the Kansas norm.

The CDP covers 0.85 square miles of land near the center of the reservation, giving it a population density of only about 32 people per square mile.