Ford County History
"A New Centennial History of Kansas," Charles Tuttle, 1876
Ford County was organized in 1873, being named in honor of
Brig. Gen. Ford. The area is 1,008 square miles; population in
1875, 813, with a preponderance of males as of 626 to 187. Dodge
City, the county seat, is in one sense the county also. There are
no banks, no libraries, no newspaper, no church edifices, and one
school building, valued with all appurtenances at $1,525. There
is only one tannery at Dodge City to represent manufactures in
the county. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Eailroad has
a station at Dodge City. The county seat is 251 miles southwest
from Topeka, and the whole population of Ford county is centered in that township. One-fifth of the county is bottom land,
and there is only one per cent, of forest. The principal streams
are the Arkansas river, Mulberry, Duck, Sawlog, Crooked, and
other unnamed creeks. Springs and well water abound. Coal is
indicated, but no great discoveries have been made. Good limestone is found near Fort Dodge. The county received no help
after the locust plague.
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