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Kansas Counties
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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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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
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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
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 kmē), of which, 718 square miles (1,860 kmē) of it is land and 1 square miles (4 kmē) 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 |
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| - Bern |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Berwick |
township |
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| - Capioma |
township |
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| - Center |
township |
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| - Centralia |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Clear Creek |
township |
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| - Corning |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Gilman |
township |
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| - Goff |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Granada |
township |
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| - Harrison |
township |
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| - Illinois |
township |
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| - Mitchell |
township |
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| - Nemaha |
township |
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| - Neuchatel |
township |
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| - Oneida |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Red Vermillion |
township |
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| - Reilly |
township |
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| - Rock Creek |
township |
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| - Sabetha |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Seneca (County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
| - Wetmore |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
Nemaha County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
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Online High Schools
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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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