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Kansas Counties

Kansas has 105 counties, the sixth-highest total of any state.  No Kansas county has two words in its name. Wyandotte County and the city of Kansas City operate as a unified government, and Greeley County and the city of Tribune are in the process of converting to a similar system.
 

 

  		 

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Anderson County, Kansas

Anderson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Garnett
Year Organized: 1855
Square Miles: 584		 Court House:

100 East Fourth Avenue
County Courthouse
Garnett, KS 66032-1500
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Received its name from Jos. C. Anderson, of Missouri, who was a member of the first Kansas Territorial Legislature, and Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

 

History

Anderson County was named for Joseph C. Anderson, a member of the first territorial legislature, which erected and organized the county in 1855. It is located in the southeastern part of the state in the second tier of counties west of Missouri, about 50 miles south of the Kansas river and 70 miles north of the southern boundary of the state. It is 24 miles square and has an area of 576 square miles. On the north it is bounded by Franklin county, on the east of Linn, on the south by Allen and on the west by Coffey.

Geography

The general surface of Anderson county is undulating, divided into bottom land, timber and rolling upland. The creek bottoms average about 2 miles in width, and belts of timber along the streams average three-fourths of a mile. The main water course of the county is the Pottawatomie river, which rises in the central part of the county and flows northeastward, its north and south branches uniting near the northeast corner of the county. The Little Osage river, Indian and Deer creeks flow through the southern portion. Lime and sandstone are plentiful, while red ocher is found in Reeder township. Coal has been found in several places and there are natural gas wells near Greeley. The trees native to this section are walnut, cottonwood, oak, hickory, hackberry, elm, sycamore, and hard and soft maples.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • North: Franklin County
  • Northeast: Miami County
  • East: Linn County
  • Southeast: Bourbon County
  • South: Allen County
  • Southwest: Woodson County
  • West: Coffey County
Cities and Towns:
- Centerville township  
- Colony city Incorporated Area
- Garnett (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Greeley city Incorporated Area
- Indian Creek township  
- Jackson township  
- Kincaid city Incorporated Area
- Lone Elm city Incorporated Area
- Monroe township  
- North Rich township  
- Ozark township  
- Putnam township  
- Reeder township  
- Rich township  
- Welda township  
- Westphalia city Incorporated Area
County Resources:

Anderson County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
 

  

 

County Resource Guide

Counties: US Map

The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

 

 
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