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Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873, and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was reestablished with its original borders in 1887, and organized on March 27, 1888. In 1889, the name was corrected to Kearny County (without an extra "e") to match the last name of Philip Kearny ...
Location of counties with the five most popular names. This is a list of U.S. county names that are used in two or more states. Ranked are the 428 most common county names, which are shared by counties in two or more states each, accounting for 1,730 of the 3,140 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.
Keokuk is a ghost town in Linn County, Kansas, United States. It was established in the 1850s, in Kansas Territory , and disappeared from maps by the 1870s. It was northwest of the original location of Centerville, Kansas , and was located twelve miles northwest of Sugar Mound.
Johnson County in the Kansas City area issued a statement Thursday that its election office finished Wednesday destroying ballots and other records from 2019, 2020 and 2021, under the direction of ...
On August 11th, 2023, police in Marion, Kansas—a small town of less than 2,000 people—raided the offices of the Marion County Record. According to the complaint, police seized computers and ...
Paris was named for Paris, Kentucky, the former home of James L. Barlow, "a lawyer of considerable ability" and a slave owner, one of the town's most prominent citizens.. James P. Fox, "by profession a lawyer, but without much ability in this line beyond a vocabulary of invective, abuse, and an abundant supply of cuss words", [1] one of the earliest settlers of the county, [2] the first ...
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. Gray County was founded in 1881 and named for Alfred Gray . [ 3 ] Between 1887 and 1893, a county seat war took place in Gray County that involved several notable Old West figures, such as Bat Masterson , Bill Tilghman , and Ben Daniels .
The Kansas Legislature and Governor Laura Kelly agreed on a $100 million project to demolish the 14-story Docking State Office Building in Topeka and replace it on the same site with a smaller ...