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Butler County, Kansas

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27historic places

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1855formed

67,380pop. 2020

57cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 27 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near El Dorado, Augusta, Douglass.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

17 of 27 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

27 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Augusta Theater	Augusta	Building	1990
Beaumont Hotel	Beaumont	Building	2012
Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Retention Pond	Beaumont	Site	2011
Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank	Beaumont	Structure	1993
Butler County Courthouse	El Dorado	Building	2002
Creed-Mills House	Douglass	Building	2013
Douglass Township Community Building	Douglass	Building	1995
El Dorado Carnegie Library	El Dorado	Building	1987
El Dorado Historic District	El Dorado	District	2013
El Dorado Missouri Pacific Depot	El Dorado	Building	1994
First Presbyterian Church of De Graff	Burns	Building	2014
Gish, Amos H., Building	Eldorado	Building	2012
James, C. N., Cabin	Augusta	Building	1973
Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge	Bois D'Arc	Structure	2003
Loomis-Parry House	Augusta	Building	2009
Moyle, John, Building	Augusta	Building	2014
Muddy Creek Bridge	Douglass	Structure	1985
Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn	Whitewater	Building	2005
Oldham, James T., House	El Dorado	Building	2006
Polecat Creek Bridge	Douglass	Structure	1985
Smith, Ray L., House	El Dorado	Building	2015
Towanda Masonic Lodge No. 30 A.F. and A.M.	Towanda	Building	2004
US Post Office-Augusta	Augusta	Building	1989
Viets Block	Augusta	Building	2012
Walnut River Crossing of the Cherokee/Fayetteville Oregon-California Trail	El Dorado	Site	2019
Whitewater Falls Stock Farm	Towanda	Building	2014
Yingling Brothers Auto Company	El Dorado	Building	2011

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Butler was formed in 1855 (1855-08-25) from unknown / original county.

BUTLER created by Kansas Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Butler County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
437	18,586	23,363	43,842	32,013	31,001	38,395	44,782	59,482	67,380

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

57 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 57 of 57 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Andover Cemetery	37.72989	-97.13407
Baker Cemetery	37.89024	-96.93265
Beaumont Cemetery	37.66559	-96.52631
Belle Vista Cemetery	37.8237	-96.84032
Benton Cemetery	37.79682	-97.09124
Blankinship Cemetery	37.78169	-96.62419
Bogle Cemetery	37.62892	-96.82639
Brainerd Cemetery	37.95668	-97.09352
Brownlow Cemetery	37.62289	-96.68497
Bryant Cemetery	37.55543	-96.7345
Butts Cemetery	37.66475	-96.53462
Butts-Wakefield Cemetery	37.69368	-96.83516
Calvary Cemetery	37.70064	-96.94655
Cassoday Cemetery	38.04353	-96.65706
Chelsea Cemetery	37.91988	-96.76726
Deem Family Cemetery	37.74918	-97.13483
Douglass Cemetery	37.51121	-96.99671
Dunlap Cemetery	37.5997	-97.09812
Ebenezer Methodist Cemetery	38.03537	-96.91433
Economy Cemetery	37.76594	-96.73465
Elmwood Cemetery	37.68375	-96.9685
Fairmount Lonestar Cemetery	38.02883	-97.05146
Fairview Cemetery	37.62542	-97.01679
Foster Cemetery	37.84613	-96.7978
Friends Cemetery	37.56258	-97.08979
Garrison Cemetery	37.6684	-96.86281
Golden Cemetery	37.63588	-97.01719
Haldeman Cemetery	37.99896	-97.01333
Harder Cemetery	37.95952	-97.11612
Harmony Cemetery	37.72333	-96.66943
High Prairie Cemetery	37.54839	-96.91603
Indianola Cemetery	37.74502	-97.07615
Latham Cemetery	37.53371	-96.66143
Leon Cemetery	37.67812	-96.78762
Little Walnut Cemetery	37.59538	-96.94479
Little Walnut Glencoe Cemetery	37.70102	-96.6058
Lone Star Cemetery	37.50363	-96.81642
McGill Cemetery	37.91898	-97.02476
Muqbra Muslim Cemetery	37.49843	-96.88141
Old Benton Cemetery	37.78108	-97.12571
Pleasant Center Cemetery	38.04321	-96.96794
Pleasant View Cemetery	38.05002	-97.11559
Pontiac Cemetery	37.81594	-96.73384
Potwin Cemetery	37.94179	-97.02461
Quito Cemetery	37.7153	-96.72503
Richland Cemetery	37.51196	-97.08115
Ridgeway Cemetery	37.95483	-96.85581
Rose Hill Cemetery	37.56349	-97.11819
Shafer Cemetery	37.90752	-97.04865
Sherman Cemetery	37.78204	-96.79871
Sunset Lawns Cemetery	37.8028	-96.87809
Sutton Cemetery	37.73807	-96.95228
Swiss Cemetery	37.97979	-97.13491
Towanda Cemetery	37.80266	-96.99749
Union Cemetery	37.83143	-97.13357
Walnut Valley Memorial Park	37.81183	-96.89964
Zion Cemetery	38.07822	-97.11647

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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