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The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while those in the central and western part of the state are named ...
English: This is a locator map showing Jefferson County in Kansas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales .
English: This is a locator map showing Barton County in Kansas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are three definitions of county in England: the 48 ceremonial counties used for the purposes of lieutenancy; the 84 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties for local government; [a] and the 39 historic counties.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Oskaloosa. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 18,368. [1] The county was named after Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States.
The counties marked in italics below are neither ceremonial nor historic. The list does not include the 61 county boroughs (1889–1974) or the 18 counties corporate (before 1889), each of which was an administrative county for a single town or city, within a larger "county-at-large".
Stafford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. [2] Its county seat is St. John.As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,072. [1] The county is named in honor of Lewis Stafford, a captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who died at the Battle of Young's Point during the American Civil War.