Monroe is a ghost town in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.
[2] In 1873, a Salina newspaper described Monroe as one of a few "post offices in the centre of industrious settlements" in Lincoln County.
[4][5] The 1887 Official State Atlas of Kansas lists the names of six Lincoln County residents as living in Monroe.
[6] Local papers in this era would regularly report of happenings in Monroe.
The first school house at Monroe was blown away in a storm in 1883 and then rebuilt, opening that fall with 45 students.