Heizer, also called Heizerton,[1] is an unincorporated community in Barton County, Kansas, United States.

[1] Heizer was created in the 1880s primarily out of the need for an additional railway stop northwest of the city of Great Bend, Kansas.

[3] For several decades the small frontier settlement boomed with the height of the railroads in Kansas.

However, time passed and life on the Kansas plains grew more difficult, particularly with the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Dust Bowl, which hit the area particularly hard.

Like many rural communities,[4] Heizer suffered a severe population decrease that continues to this day.

[3] They included: Train Depot (seen here in its prime), blacksmith, hotel, stockyard, lumberyard, church, school, several grain elevators, general stores, hardware store, Heizer Creamery Co, bank established in 1911.