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Wayside is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Caney Township, Montgomery County, Kansas, located along U.S. Route 75 northeast of Caney and southwest of Independence — it is not an incorporated city.

Wayside was a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and in 1910 it had an express office, a money-order post office with one rural route, and a population of 40.

Wayside's post office opened in 1887 and operated until 1984, and its old post office building is now preserved at the Little House on the Prairie museum southwest of Independence.

About two miles east of Wayside, along Laura Ingalls Wilder Road, is the original location of the Little House on the Prairie, the Kansas home of Laura Ingalls Wilder, where a reconstruction of the house, a museum and relocated period buildings now stand and where the Ingalls family's third daughter, Carrie, was born on August 3, 1870.

The 2020 census, the first to count Wayside as a CDP, recorded just 19 people in 11 households across about 0.2 square miles.

Wayside is served by the Caney Valley USD 436 public school district, and its former Wayside High School — whose mascot was the Panthers — was closed through school unification.

Wayside sits at an elevation of 892 feet in southeastern Kansas, near the Oklahoma state line.