Hesper is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas located two and a half miles southeast of Eudora. Hesper was founded in 1858 by Quakers wanting to lend support to the free-state cause. In 1884, the Hesper Academy was opened but it closed in 1912.A post office was opened in Hesper in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1900.Friends University in Wichita was founded by James Davis, who was a native of Hesper.