Volga German immigrants from Paulskaya settled in and around Applegate, Michigan. They were joined by families from other Volga German colonies.

Volga German immigrants from Yagodnaya-Polyana settled in and around Preston and nearby Federalsburg.

Volga German immigrants from Yagodnaya-Polyana settled in and around Federalsburg and nearby Preston.

Yocemento was founded in 1906 when a cement plant was being constructed by a group of investors from Hays. They hired Hungarian immigrants to do the construction.       

Local Volga German and German farmers joined with the Hungarians to form a Catholic parish, however, the cement plant was a failure and most of the Hungarians left the area.

The town of Wilson was incorporated in 1883.  Volga German families settled in and around Wilson.

The 1880 Census records a handful of Volga Germans living in Wallace, but they were there working on the railroad. Volga Germans from Ellis and Rush Counties moved west to settle in Wallace permanently beginning in 1922.

Walker is an unincorporated community located in Herzog Township of Ellis County along the Union Pacific Railroad about 4 miles northwest of Victoria. Settlers from Ohio arrived there in 1872. Volga Germans arrived in the area in 1876. A school was built there in 1893.

In December of 1877, James F. Keeney and Albert E. Warren purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway Co. the land that was to become WaKeeney (a contraction of their names). The first Volga Germans began settling to the north and west of WaKeeney in the late 1890s.

Trego Center:

Trego Center is a community located about 9 miles south of the city of WaKeeney, and is centered around Zion Lutheran Church which is located there.

The town site for Vincent was planned and platted about 5 miles south and 2 miles east of Victoria in 1910 after St. Boniface Catholic Church was established in 1907. It was named after Father Vincent Brandt who had been the founding priest of St. Boniface. The town never really materialized although there were a school and a grocery store there for a while.

The first Volga Germans arrived from Topeka and established the town of Herzog on 8 April 1876, one-half mile north of the town of Victoria which had been founded in 1874 by Scotch-English immigrants. The two towns grew together and Herzog officially changed its name to Victoria in 1913.

Victoria's founders included the following families (along with the number of people in the family):

from Katharinenstadt

Justus Bissing (7)
Frederic Karlin (4)
Peter Karlin (3)
Jacob Karlin (3)
Frederic Koerner (10)

from Kamenka