Hoisington, KS. Hoisington is a city in Barton County, Kansas, United States. The population was 2,975 at the United States 2000 Census. In 1886, a group of Barton County businessmen formed the Central Kansas Town Company and founded the town of Hoisington to attract the Kansas and Colorado Railroad to the area. They named the settlement after Andrew J. Hoisington, one of the company partners and a prominent businessman in nearby Great Bend.