LeLoup

Formerly called Ferguson for one of the town's early settlers, LeLoup was an early shipping point for grain, hay, and stock on the Southern Kansas Railroad. The town prospered in the early 1900s. LeLoup was home, for over 30 years, to the Modern Woodman of America Association picnic, an annual summer event in the grove by Wolf Creek. LeLoup means "Wolf" in French. It and the river, Marais des Cygnes, meaning "marsh of the swans" are among the few remnants of names given to local landforms by French explorers who came up the waterways around 1800.