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We are excited to bring you a brand-new web site for Kansas data, and hope you will check back often as we build pages full of useful information for you. If you have an interest in a specific county which is available and would like to try your hand at hosting a county or two, be sure to contact me. Copy and paste my email address into your email template: [email protected]. It would also be helpful if you were to add "Trails to the Past" in the subject line, too.
Interested in another state or county? A link to the Home page for Trails to the Past is at the bottom, you'll find more information there.
Name | Date Formed | Parent County or Territory Organized From | County Seat | Coordinator |
Allen | 1855 | Original County | Iola | ADOPT ME |
Anderson | 1855 | Original County | Garnett | ADOPT ME |
Atchison | 1855 | Original County | Atchison | ADOPT ME |
Barber | 1867 | Harper | Medicine Lodge | ADOPT ME |
Barton | 1867 | Ellsworth | Great Bend | ADOPT ME |
Bourbon | 1855 | Original County | Fort Scott | ADOPT ME |
Brown | 1855 | Original County | Hiawatha | ADOPT ME |
Butler | 1855 | Original County | El Dorado | ADOPT ME |
Chase | 1859 | Butler | Cottonwood Falls | ADOPT ME |
Chautauqua | 1875 | Howard | Sedan | ADOPT ME |
Cherokee | 1855 | Unorganized Territory | Columbus | ADOPT ME |
Cheyenne | 1875 | Kirwin Land District | St. Francis | Alice Allen |
Clark | 1885 | Ford | Ashland | ADOPT ME |
Clay | 1857 | Original County | Clay Center | ADOPT ME |
Cloud | 1860 | Formerly Shirley County | Concordia | Alice Allen |
Coffey | 1855 | Original County | Burlington | ADOPT ME |
Comanche | 1867 | Kiowa | Coldwater | ADOPT ME |
Cowley | 1867 | Formerly Hunter | Winfield | ADOPT ME |
Crawford | 1867 | Bourbon | Girard | ADOPT ME |
Decatur | 1873 | Norton | Oberlin | ADOPT ME |
Dickinson | 1855 | Original County | Abiline | Alice Allen |
Doniphan | 1855 | Original County | Troy | ADOPT ME |
Douglas | 1855 | Original County | Lawrence | ADOPT ME |
Edwards | 1874 | Kiowa | Kinsley | ADOPT ME |
Elk | 1875 | Howard | Howard | ADOPT ME |
Ellis | 1867 | Unorganized Territory | Hays | ADOPT ME |
Ellsworth | 1867 | Saline | Ellsworth | ADOPT ME |
Finney | 1883 | Arapahoe, Foote, Sequoyah | Garden City | ADOPT ME |
Ford | 1873 | Unorganized Territory | Dodge City | ADOPT ME |
Franklin | 1855 | Original County | Ottawa | ADOPT ME |
Geary | 1855 | Davis Co. 1875-1888; Riley | Junction City | ADOPT ME |
Gove | 1868 | Unorganized Territory | Gove | ADOPT ME |
Graham | 1867 | Rooks | Hill City | ADOPT ME |
Grant | 1873 | Finney, Kearney | Ulysses | ADOPT ME |
Gray | 1887 | Finney, Ford | Cimarron | ADOPT ME |
Greeley | 1873 | Hamilton | Tribune | ADOPT ME |
Greenwood | 1855 | Original County | Eureka | ADOPT ME |
Hamilton | 1873 | Unorganized Territory | Syracuse | ADOPT ME |
Harper | 1867 | Kingman | Anthony | ADOPT ME |
Harvey | 1872 | McPherson, Sedgwich, Marion | Newton | ADOPT ME |
Haskell | 1887 | Finney | Sublette | ADOPT ME |
Hodgeman | 1879 | Indian Lands (est. 1868) | Jetmore | ADOPT ME |
Jackson | 1855 | Was Calhoun, changed to Jackson aft. Civil War | Holton | ADOPT ME |
Jefferson | 1855 | Original County | Oskaloosa | ADOPT ME |
Jewell | 1867 | Mitchell | Mankato | ADOPT ME |
Johnson | 1855 | Original County | Olathe | ADOPT ME |
Kearny | 1873 | Finney | Lakin | ADOPT ME |
Kingman | 1886 | Unorganized Territory | Kingman | ADOPT ME |
Kiowa | 1886 | Comanche, Edwards | Greensburg | ADOPT ME |
Labette- | 1867 | Neosho | Oswego | ADOPT ME |
Lane | 1877 | Finney | Dighton | ADOPT ME |
Leavenworth | 1855 | Original County | Leavenworth | ADOPT ME |
Lincoln | 1867 | Ellsworth | Lincoln | Alice Allen |
Linn | 1855 | Original County | Mound City | ADOPT ME |
Logan | 1881 | Wallace (changed from St. John 1887 | Oakley | ADOPT ME |
Lyon | 1857 | Madison (see Breckinridge) | Emporia | Alice Allen |
Marion | 1855 | Chase | Marion | ADOPT ME |
Marshall | 1855 | Original County | Marysville | Alice Allen |
McPherson | 1867 | Unorganized Territory | McPherson | ADOPT ME |
Meade | 1885 | Unorganized Territory | Meade | ADOPT ME |
Miami | 1855 | Formerly Lykins | Paola | ADOPT ME |
Mitchell | 1867 | Kirwin Land District | Beloit | ADOPT ME |
Montgomery | 1867 | Labette | Independence | ADOPT ME |
Morris | 1855 | Madison (formerly Wise | Council Grove | ADOPT ME |
Morton | 1881 | Stanton | Elkhart | ADOPT ME |
Nemaha | 1855 | Original County | Seneca | ADOPT ME |
Neosho | 1855 | Original County (formerly Dorn) | Erie | ADOPT ME |
Ness | 1867 | Hodgeman | Ness City | ADOPT ME |
Norton | 1867 | Unorganized Territory (changed to Billings 1873, back to Norton 1874) | Norton | ADOPT ME |
Osage | 1855 | Formerly Weller | Lyndon | ADOPT ME |
Osborne | 1867 | Mitchell | Osborne | ADOPT ME |
Ottawa | 1860 | Saline | Minneapolis | ADOPT ME |
Pawnee | 1867 | Rush, Stafford | Larned | ADOPT ME |
Phillips | 1867 | Kirwin Land District | Phillipsburg | ADOPT ME |
Pottawatomie | 1857 | Riley, Calhoun | Westmoreland | ADOPT ME |
Pratt | 1867 | Stafford | Pratt | ADOPT ME |
Rawlins | 1873 | Kirwin Land District | Atwood | ADOPT ME |
Reno | 1867 | Sedgwick, McPherson | Hutchinson | ADOPT ME |
Republic | 1860 | Washington, Cloud | Belleville | ADOPT ME |
Rice | 1867 | Reno | Lyons | ADOPT ME |
Riley | 1855 | Unorganized Territory, Wabaunsee | Manhattan | ADOPT ME |
Rooks | 1867 | Kirwin Land District | Stockton | ADOPT ME |
Rush | 1867 | Unorganized Territory | La Crosse | ADOPT ME |
Russell | 1867 | Ellsworth | Russell | ADOPT ME |
Saline | 1860 | Original County | Salina | ADOPT ME |
Scott | 1873 | Finney | Scott City | ADOPT ME |
Sedgwick | 1867 | Butler | Wichita | ADOPT ME |
Seward | 1873 | Unorganized Territory | Liberal | ADOPT ME |
Shawnee | 1855 | Original Territory | Topeka | ADOPT ME |
Sheridan | 1873 | Unorganized Territory | Hoxie | ADOPT ME |
Sherman | 1873 | Kirwin Land District | Goodland | ADOPT ME |
Smith | 1867 | Unorganized Territory | Smith Center | ADOPT ME |
Stafford | 1867 | Unorganized Territory | Saint John | ADOPT ME |
Stanton | 1873 | Reorganized | Johnson | ADOPT ME |
Stevens | 1873 | Indian Lands | Hugoton | ADOPT ME |
Sumner | 1867 | Cowley | Wellington | Billie Walsh |
Thomas | 1873 | Kirwin Land District | Colby | ADOPT ME |
Trego | 1867 | Ellis | Wakeeney | ADOPT ME |
Wabaunsee | 1855 | Riley, Morris (formerly Richardson) | Alma | ADOPT ME |
Wallace | 1868 | Indian Lands (see Logan) | Sharon Springs | ADOPT ME |
Washington | 1855 | Original County | Washington | ADOPT ME |
Wichita | 1873 | Indian Lands | Leoti | ADOPT ME |
Wilson | 1855 | Original County | Fredonia | ADOPT ME |
Woodson | 1855 | Original County | Yates Center | ADOPT ME |
Wyandotte | 1859 | Original County | Kansas City | ADOPT ME |
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