Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Princeton, KS

Princeton is a small city in Franklin County, Kansas, founded in 1869 and incorporated in 1921.

Princeton began as a railroad siding on the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad as it pushed south from Ottawa in the late 1860s.

Princeton was named after Princeton, Illinois, the hometown of one of its founders; in October 1869, Thompson Jones donated a 2,000-foot strip of land along the railroad that became the townsite.

Princeton's post office was moved from the nearby settlement of Ohio City on March 28, 1870, with Thomas Fletcher as the first postmaster.

Princeton was a busy railroad town in 1910, with general stores, hardware and implement houses, a lumber yard, a blacksmith shop and 240 residents, and it celebrated its centennial in September 1969.

The 2020 census counted 248 people in Princeton, living in 109 households; the population had peaked at 317 in 2000.

Princeton covers just 0.33 square miles, and W. E. Stinebaugh served as its first mayor after incorporation in 1921.

The railroad no longer runs through Princeton, and its former tracks have been converted into the Prairie Spirit rail trail.

Princeton's own schools closed with unification in 1965 — its high school teams were the Orioles — and students now attend the Central Heights USD 288 district based in Richmond.