FamilySearch Wiki

Kansas County Creation Dates and Parent Counties

Note
 See an interactive outline map of Kansas Historical Counties at Newberry Library site.[1] Select a year and the map will display the historical county boundaries. Click on map image for county details.


Tip: Sort the table by Date Formed or by Parent Counties and check Boundary Changes for interesting insights.
Name of County Date Formed Boundary
Changes 		Parent County Counties Created by Boundary Changes
Allen 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Anderson 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Arapahoe 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory absorbed into Finney 1883
Atchison 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Barber 1867 Feb 26 Details Harper Kansas 1873
Barton 1867 Feb 26 Details Ellsworth none
Billings 1873 Mar 3 Details renamed from Norton none
Bourbon 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory Crawford 1867
Breckenridge 1857 Details Madison renamed Lyon 1862
Broderick 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Brown 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Buffalo 1873 Mar 6 Details Kansas Territory absorbed into Lane 1881
Butler 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory, Irving (1864), Otoe (1864) Chase 1859, Sedgwick 1867
Calhoun 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory Pottawatomie 1857, renamed Jackson 1859
Chase 1859 Feb 11 Details Butler Marion 1855
Chautauqua 1875 Mar 3 Details Howard none
Cherokee 1860 Feb 18 Details renamed from McGee none
Cheyenne 1873 Mar 6 Details Kirwin Land District none
Clark 1885 Mar 7 Details Ford none
Clay 1857 Feb 20 Details Kansas Territory none
Cloud 1867 Feb 26 Details renamed from Shirley Republic 1860
Coffey 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Comanche 1867 Feb 26 Details Kiowa Kiowa 1886
Cowley 1867 Feb 26 Details renamed from Hunter Sumner 1867
Crawford 1867 Feb 13 Details Bourbon none
Davis 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Geary 1889
Decatur 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Doniphan 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Dorn 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Neosho 1861
Douglas 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Edwards 1874 Mar 7 Details Kansas Territory Kiowa 1886
El Paso 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Elk 1875 Mar 3 Details Howard none
Ellis 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory none
Ellsworth 1867 Feb 26 Details Saline Barton 1867, Lincoln 1867, Russell 1867
Finney 1883 Feb 21 Details Arapahoe, Foote, Sequoyah Foote 1887, Grant 1873, Gray 1887, haskell 1887, Kearny 1873, Lane 1873, Scott 1873
Foote 1883 Feb 221 Details Finney, Ford renamed Gray 1887
Ford 1863 Mar 6 Details Kansas Territory Clark 1885, Foote 1887, Gray 1887
Franklin 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Fremont 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Garfield 1887 Mar 5 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Geary 1889 Feb 28 Details renamed from Davis none
Godfrey 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Seward 1861
Gove 1868 Mar 2 Details Kansas Territory none
Graham 1867 Feb 26 Details Rooks none
Grant 1873 Mar 6 Details Finney, Kearny none
Gray 1887 Mar 5 Details renamed from Foote none
Greeley 1873 Mar 6 Details Hamilton none
Greenwood 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Hageman (Hodgeman) 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Hamilton 1873 Mar 6 Details Kansas Territory Greeley 1873
Harper 1867 Feb 26 Details Kingman Barber 1867
Harvey 1872 Feb 29 Details McPherson, Sedgwick, Marion none
Haskell 1887 Mar 5 Details Finney none
Hodgeman 1873 Mar 6 Details Indian lands Ness 1867
Howard 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory divided to Chautauqua 1875, Elk 1875
Hunter 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed 1867
Irving 1860 Feb 27 Details Hunter annexed to Butler 1864
Jackson 1859 Feb 11 Details renamed from Calhoun none
Jefferson 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Jewell 1867 Feb 26 Details Mitchell none
Kansas 1873 Mar 6 Details Barber annexed to Seward 1883
Kearny 1873 Mar 6 Details Finney Grant 1873
Kingman 1872 Feb 10 Details Reno none
Kiowa 1886 Feb 10 Details Comanche, Edwards none
Labette 1867 Feb 7 Details Neosho Montgomery 1867
Lane 1873 Mar 6 Details Finney, Buffalo (1881) none
Leavenworth 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Lincoln 1867 Feb 26 Details Ellsworth none
Linn 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Logan 1887 Feb 24 Details renamed from St. John none
Lykins 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Miami 1861
Lyon 1862 Feb 5 Details renamed from Breckenridge none
Madison 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory Breckenridge 1857, Morris 1855
Marion 1855 Aug 30 Details Chase Harvey 1872, Otoe 1860
Marshall 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
McGee 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Cherokee 1860
McPherson 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory Harvey 1872, Reno 1867
Meade 1885 Mar 7 Details Kansas Territory none
Miami 1861 Jun 3 Details renamed from Lykins none
Mitchell 1867 Feb 26 Details Kirwin Land District Jewell 1867, Osborne 1867
Montana 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Montgomery 1867 Feb 26 Details Labette none
Morris 1859 Feb 11 Details renamed from Wise none
Morton 1886 Nov 17 Details Kansas none
Nemaha 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Neosho 1861 Jun 3 Details renamed from Dorn none
Ness 1867 Feb 26 Details Hodgeman none
Norton 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory renamed Billings 1873-1874
Oro 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Osage 1859 Feb 11 Details renamed from Weller none
Osborne 1867 Feb 26 Details Mitchell none
Otoe 1860 Feb 27 Details Kansas Territory annexed to Butler 1864
Ottawa 1860 Feb 27 Details Saline none
Pawnee 1867 Feb 26 Details Rush, Stafford none
Peketon 1860 Feb 27 Details Kansas Territory dissolved
Phillips 1867 Feb 26 Details Kirwin Land District none
Pottawatomie 1857 Feb 20 Details Riley, Calhoun none
Pratt 1867 Feb 26 Details Stafford none
Rawlins 1873 Mar 6 Details Kirwin Land District none
Reno 1867 Feb 26 Details Sedgwick, McPherson Rice 1867
Republic 1860 Feb 27 Details Washington, Cloud none
Rice 1867 Feb 26 Details Reno none
Richardson 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Wabaunsee 1859
Riley 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory Davis 1871, Pottawatomie 1857, Richardson 1855
Rooks 1867 Feb 26 Details Kirwin Land District none
Rush 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory dissolved 1883
Russell 1867 Feb 26 Details Ellsworth none
St. John 1881 Mar 4 Details Wallace renamed 1887
Saline 1860 Feb 15 Details Kansas Territory Ellsworth 1867, Ottawa 1860
Scott 1873 Mar 6 Details Finney none
Sedgwick 1867 Feb 26 Details Butler Harvey 1872, Reno 1867
Sequoyah 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Finney 1883
Seward 1861 Jun 3 Details renamed from Godfrey, Kansas (1883) none
Shawnee 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Shelby 1865 Kansas Territory absorbed by Washington
Sheridan 1873 Mar 6 Details Kansas Territory none
Sherman 1873 Mar 6 Details Kirwin Land District none
Shirley 1860 Feb 27 Details Kansas Territory renamed Cloud 1867
Smith 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas Territory none
Stafford 1867 Feb 26 Details Kansas territory Pawnee 1867, Pratt 1867
Stanton 1873 Mar 6 Details Indian lands none
Stevens 1873 Mar 6 Details Indian lands none
Sumner 1867 Feb 26 Details Cowley none
Thomas 1873 Mar 6 Details Kirwin Land District none
Trego 1867 Feb 26 Details Ellis none
Wabaunsee 1859 Feb 11 Details renamed from Richardson none
Wallace 1868 Mar 2 Details Indian lands St. John 1881
Washington 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory, Shelby Republic 1860
Weller 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Osage 1859
Wichita 1873 Mar 6 Details Indian lands none
Wilson 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory none
Wise 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory renamed Morris 1859
Woodson 1855 Aug 30 Details Kansas Territory major boundary changes 1868
Wyandotte 1859 Feb 11 Details Kansas Territory none

References

  1. ↑ Kansas Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor; Gordon DenBoer, Historical Compiler; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director and Digital Compiler; Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant. Copyright The Newberry Library 2008.
Retrieved from "https://integration-ru.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Kansas_County_Creation_Dates_and_Parent_Counties&oldid=4685039"