Carlyle is an unincorporated community in Allen County, Kansas, United States.

In the fall of 1857, a small colony had been formed in Parke and Johnson counties, Indiana, for the purpose of making a settlement, and building up a town, which was to be named Carlyle.

Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened.

A post office was secured, and a postal route established from Leavenworth via Hyatt, in Anderson County, Carlyle and Cofachique to Humboldt, in 1858.

A church and schoolhouse was afterward built, a high school kept up, and part of the time there has been a store, while it had always retained the post office.