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Jewell County, Kansas
Jewell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Mankato
Year Organized: 1870
Square Miles: 910 |
Court House: 307 North Commercial Street
County Courthouse
Mankato, KS 66956-2025
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Named: In honor of Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis R. Jewell, Sixth Kansas
Cavalry, who died November 30, 1862, of wounds received in the battle of Cane
Hill, Ark. November 28, 1862.
State & County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Jewell County, one of the northern tier, is the second county west of the 6th principal meridian. It contains 900 square miles and is divided into 25 civil townships, each of which is a Congressional township. It is bounded on the north by the State of Nebraska; on the east by Republic and Cloud
counties; on the south by Mitchell, and on the west by Smith. Jewell was one of the counties on the line of the historic Pawnee road, and also one of the counties crossed by Lieut. Pike in 1806. The surface is rolling prairie gradually rising to table lands in the central portion. The branches of
the Republican and Solomon form its water system.
This county was named in honor of Lewis R. Jewell, lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Kansas cavalry, who died of wounds received in the battle of Cane Hill, Ark.
Neighboring Counties:
- Nuckolls County, Nebraska (northeast)
- Republic County (east)
- Cloud County (southeast)
- Mitchell County (south)
- Osborne County (southwest)
- Smith County (west)
- Webster County, Nebraska (northwest)
Cities:
| - Athens |
township |
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| - Browns Creek |
township |
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| - Burr Oak |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Calvin |
township |
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| - Center |
township |
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| - Erving |
township |
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| - Esbon |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Formoso |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Grant |
township |
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| - Harrison |
township |
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| - Holmwood |
township |
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| - Ionia |
township |
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| - Jackson |
township |
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| - Jewell |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Limestone |
township |
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| - Mankato (County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Montana |
township |
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| - Odessa |
township |
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| - Prairie |
township |
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| - Randall |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Richland |
township |
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| - Sinclair |
township |
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| - Vicksburg |
township |
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| - Webber |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - White Mound |
township |
County Resources:
Jefferson County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
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County Resource Guide
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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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