The community is at the intersection of Illinois routes 16 and 49 approximately ten miles southwest of Paris.

[4] According to the 2010 census, Kansas has a total area of 1.03 square miles (2.67 km2), all land.

[7] In or before 1972, students and their physical education teacher at the high school invented a game called Deckerball.

[8] As of the 2020 census[3] there were 670 people, 339 households, and 183 families residing in the village.

36.58% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.76% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In 2004, however, Kansas, in union with local Oakland High School, created the Tri-County Co-op.