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Comanche County, Kansas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

1,689pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Coldwater, Unknown, Protection.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kansas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Comanche titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Archeological Site Number 14CM305	Unknown	Site	1982
Chief Theater	Coldwater	Building	2005
Comache County Courthouse	Coldwater	Building	2002
Protection High School	Protection	Building	2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Comanche was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from Marion.

COMANCHE created from MARION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Comanche County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
372	1,619	5,302	4,412	3,888	3,271	2,554	1,967	1,689

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Avilla Cemetery	37.12707	-99.35117
Crown Hill Cemetery	37.27163	-99.29443
Mennonite Cemetery	37.11892	-99.47956
Nescatunga Cemetery	37.2299	-99.2398
Protection Cemetery	37.21299	-99.49517
Wilmore Cemetery	37.34278	-99.20984

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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