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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

 

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  
- Browns Creek township  
- Burr Oak city Incorporated Area
- Calvin township  
- Center township  
- Erving township  
- Esbon city Incorporated Area
- Formoso city Incorporated Area
- Grant township  
- Harrison township  
- Holmwood township  
- Ionia township  
- Jackson township  
- Jewell city Incorporated Area
- Limestone township  
- Mankato (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Montana township  
- Odessa township  
- Prairie township  
- Randall city Incorporated Area
- Richland township  
- Sinclair township  
- Vicksburg township  
- Webber city Incorporated Area
- White Mound township
County Resources:

Jefferson County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912

 

 
 
County Resource Guide

State Resource Guide

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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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