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Edwards County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1874formed

2,907pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1993. Most listings are in or near Kinsley.

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 Edwards titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Gano Grain Elevator and Scale House	Kinsley	Structure	1993
Kinsley Civil War Monument	Kinsley	Object	2008
Palace Theater	Kinsley	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

Edwards was formed in 1874 (1874-03-18) from Kiowa, former part of PAWNEE.

EDWARDS created from KIOWA and part of Non-County Area 7, former part of PAWNEE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,409	3,682	7,057	6,377	5,936	5,118	4,271	3,449	2,907

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
fols	Park unit	34.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Cemetery	37.7347	-99.41328
Fellsburg Cemetery	37.80684	-99.16937
Hillside Cemetery	37.93752	-99.44901
Lutheran Cemetery	38.02874	-99.40504
Old Kinsley Cemetery	37.92752	-99.43162
Providence Cemetery	37.73346	-99.05142
Saint Nicholas Cemetery	37.91514	-99.42445
Salem Cemetery	38.03307	-99.44262
Trotter Cemetery	37.83934	-99.27846
Wayne Cemetery	37.95502	-99.21483

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Williams	37.81668	-99.33373

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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