Florence is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 394. The city was named after the daughter of the third Governor of Kansas Samuel J. Crawford. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 and U.S. Route 77 highways.
St Patrick Catholic Church (2010)
1896 Bichet School, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Florence (2011)
1881 Patrick Doyle House, 0.3 miles south of Florence (2022)
1887 Florence Water Tower (2018)
Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Marion and its most populous city is Hillsboro. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 11,823. The county was named in honor of Francis Marion, a brigadier general of the American Revolutionary War, known as the "Swamp Fox".
Marion County Courthouse in Marion (2009)
Francis Marion (late 1700s)
Lost Spring Station marker along former Santa Fe Trail