Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Pleasanton, KS

Pleasanton is the largest city in Linn County in eastern Kansas, even though the county seat is Mound City.

Pleasanton is named for Union General Alfred Pleasonton — the town's name is spelled differently from the general's, with one fewer 'a.'

In October 1864, Pleasonton's cavalry helped defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Mine Creek near present-day Pleasanton, the largest Civil War battle fought in Kansas.

The Battle of Mine Creek involved about 25,000 men and ended the threat of a Confederate invasion of Kansas; the battlefield south of town is now the Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, with a 2.6-mile interpretive walking trail.

Pleasanton itself began in 1869, when the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad was built through the area; its first post office opened in August 1869, and the city was incorporated in 1878.

The 2020 census counted 1,208 people in 489 households in Pleasanton.

From the 1950s until 1985, Pleasanton was home to Fundcraft, a publisher whose fundraising cookbooks for churches, synagogues, and civic groups were printed across the country and are now studied as artifacts of American food culture.

On April 27, 2014, an EF2 tornado destroyed Pleasanton's Fairmount Church, which had stood since 1884, and severely damaged the town cemetery.

Students attend Pleasanton USD 344 schools, and Pleasanton High School's teams are the Blu-Jays.

Pleasanton is home to the Linn County Museum and a small antique car museum, and lies about 67 miles south of Kansas City along U.S. Route 69.