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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.

Nemaha County, Kansas

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

County Seat: Seneca
Year Organized: 1855
Square Miles: 719

Court House:

P.O. Box 186
County Courthouse
Seneca, KS 66538-0186

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named from a river in Nebraska--the Nemaha, one of whose branches drains the northern half of the county.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Nemaha County, the third west from the Missouri river in the northern tier, was one of the original 33 counties created by the first territorial legislature in 1855, and one of the 19 counties to be organized in that year. It is bounded on the north by the State of Nebraska; on the east by Brown county; on the south by Jackson and Pottawatomie counties, and on the west by Marshall county.

It is claimed by some historians that Nemaha was included in the region visited by Coronado and that he reached its northern boundary in Aug., 1851, but it is probable that the first expedition to cross the county was in 1842 when Fremont made his journey across the continent. His route entered the county on the east line, south of the present town of Sabetha, extended northwest to Baker's ford, turned south, passing near the place where Seneca now stands, thence northwest again and crossed the county line near the present village of Clear Creek. This road was used by the Mormons in the early '40s and by the California gold-seekers in 1849, later becoming the military road used by the government troops moving westward.

Nemaha county took its name from the river, which in Indian language means "no papoose," indicating the malarious character of the climate at that time.

Geography

According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 719 square miles (1,863 km²), of which, 718 square miles (1,860 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (4 km²) of it (0.20%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Richardson County, Nebraska (northeast)
Brown County (east)
Jackson County (southeast)
Pottawatomie County (southwest)
Marshall County (west)
Pawnee County, Nebraska (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Adams	township
- Bern	city	Incorporated Area
- Berwick	township
- Capioma	township
- Center	township
- Centralia	city	Incorporated Area
- Clear Creek	township
- Corning	city	Incorporated Area
- Gilman	township
- Goff	city	Incorporated Area
- Granada	township
- Harrison	township
- Illinois	township
- Mitchell	township
- Nemaha	township
- Neuchatel	township
- Oneida	city	Incorporated Area
- Red Vermillion	township
- Reilly	township
- Rock Creek	township
- Sabetha	city	Incorporated Area
- Seneca (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Wetmore	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

Nemaha County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912

County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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."