Beaver Creek starts at the Kansas-Nebraska state line
and travels upstream in a southwesterly direction through Decatur and Rawlins counties with North Fork Beaver Creek and Little Beaver Creek branching off above Atwood and with
headwaters extending into Cheyenne and Sherman counties and Colorado.
South Fork Beaver Creek is located in Atwood. Lake Atwood within the city has been all but dry for two decades.

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In 1875, T.A. Andrews and J.M. Matheny traveled to Rawlins County and started a town site about two miles east of the current city. The city of Attwood (with two t's) was named after Attwood Matheny, the 14-year-old son who accompanied his father on the journey. In 1882, the U.S. Post Office requested permission to drop one "t" thus becoming Atwood. In 1881, Atwood became the county seat of Rawlins County

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Mankato was originally called Jewell Center, and under the latter name laid out in 1872. It was renamed Mankato in 1880 after Mankato, Minnesota. Mankato was incorporated as a city in 1880.

The first post office in the town was established as Jewell Center in August 1872. The post office was renamed Mankato in April 1880.

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