Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Near Simpson Historic District Simpson, KS

Simpson is a small city that straddles the line between Mitchell County and Cloud County in north-central Kansas — the dataset lists it under Mitchell County.

Simpson began in 1871 as Brittsville, where a sawmill opened on the site, and the town moved about a mile to its present site when the railroad arrived around 1879-1880.

In 1882 the town and its post office were renamed Simpson in honor of Alfred Simpson, an original landowner who helped finance the first mill and deeded land for the new townsite.

At its peak in the 1920 census Simpson had 295 residents; the 2020 census counted only 82 people in 32 households.

Simpson covers just a quarter of a square mile of land and was not incorporated until 1907, decades after its founding.

The Simpson Shanks & Company Bank, founded in town in 1894, served the farming community for generations as a rural agricultural bank.

Simpson is served by the Beloit USD 273 public school district; its own schools closed through unification, and the old Simpson High School mascot was the Coyotes.